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Yes it is the best, nothing really approaches its performance...

It's not about receiving them, but about reading the spin and placement. I mainly want to read whether it's sidetopspin or sideunderspin. It's really a nightmare once ppl learn how to serve both spins with nearly the same racket angle and movement... BH serves are usually way easier to read imo.

Any tips on how to read well disguised reverse pendulum serves to the FH?

yes you're right - you step into position first, then push off the right foot that is already there when you contact the ball. It's a two step process.

Like you I also think a hop/bounce is sometimes a bit too much. Distilled to its essentials, the most important part is to make sure the elbow is in the neutral position (regardless of the previous stroke), and the weight goes back to the middle - a reset after a weight transfer. One key tip I...

Chiquita is one of my main weapons personally and I also had this issue before. The key is to do no arm backswing as you approach the ball and get into position. Rather, you move into the table such a way so that your shoulders faces the left and then twist your upper body to get into the...

I'm not exactly sure why Lim Jonghoon loses so many matches in the deciding set. First against Truls in the WTTC, then Fan Zhendong recently and now Zhou Qihao.

I watched a few CNT FH training videos recently and the real weird thing is that they actually practice loops with their racket leg in front. What is the point of doing that practice deliberately?

These are from Top pros with the best technique and boosted Hurricanes though. At max effort in training situations, CNT players can go up to 130+rps no problems (see Fang Bo's channel). However, brokenball is saying that amateurs with a dead bat can produce 80 rev/s easily - which shows that...

I think most of us have this problem especially against good servers who vary spin/placement well. What I try to do is to make my strokes a lot more "adjustable". For eg there is a gradual sliding scale between my chiquita and a full blown BH loop, they're not 2 completely different strokes. So...

I think if you're good at topspin rally you should aim to avoid pushing short and even pushing in general and to prioritise flicking the ball safely, looping long serves and mostly serve sidetopspin or no spin. Even against backspin you can do some soft flicks - I recommend the strawberry stroke...

I would really be interested to see Aruna, Calderano or heck even Fan Zhendong to try this - the results would be very interesting!

It appears that he is not even a good engineer given he thinks that people launch rockets and airplanes without extensive model testing and verification 😂

This statement precisely betrays your lack of knowledge of actual real world engineering. If you follow SpaceX for eg, every single component of a rocket is meticulously tested to verify their modelling and calculations. And if there's any anomalous behaviour they will postpone launches until...

Wang Chuqin was in crazy form and playing possessed. Harimoto was playing quite good actually and WCQ simply demolished him this time. Same with Ma Long. He didn't even smile after winning - he was so in the zone. Ma Long can't do much against WCQ in this kind of form. Unlike FZD, WCQ...

He can't even produce a backtested model after boasting so much about it. There's many practicing engineers on this site (myself being one with a decade of experience designing in many big projects - VictorMoraga is another it seems). In real life we never use any model which hasn't been...

There's no way a commoner can get 80 rev/s with a dead bat with the new plastic ball. 80 rev/s = 4800 rpm and is nothing to sneeze at. Note that based on Hawkeye results Ma Long frequently only loops at 6000+rpm, and that's with boosted tacky Hurricanes and it's Ma Long the greatest of all time...

It was intentional to poke fun at ppl who think casual racism is acceptable, and when called out on it claim other ppl are snowflakes, up until they're on the receiving end LOL. Suddenly it's not so funny eh?

Your model is wrong because of this particular assumption. It simply isn't how the racket - ball system interacts. Otherwise you could easily spin a ball with any surface you want (notice that your model can't account for the differences in racket surfaces?), but everyone knows that's not the case.

I'm questioning this particular model you did because the assumptions are not correct. How efficiently the blade velocity transfers to ball spin/speed is of importance here. And I bet if you actually hit a ball eccentrically with a wooden paddle with no rubber, you won't be getting anywhere near...