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Basically if your upper body is leaning forward over a certain leg, you would be placing more weight over that foot. So the FH weight transfer is a process where you lean over the right foot on the backswing and then lean over the left foot at the end. You don't need to lean that much to get the...

Yes you can transfer less weight by going less low but there should still be weight transfer imo. Gozo is doing only half of the weight transfer (the lifting part) and he's relying on closing the angle with the arm to avoid overshooting the table. I'm simply providing a quick fix for him so that...

I actually kinda like Gozo's structure because he swings compact with good elbow position, and he loads up on his right leg to power the shot, and importantly he actually moves his right leg to "find" the ball and recovers after looping. The biggest issue really is that Gozo doesn't finish the...

Yep. I guess the problem with D05 is that the short push against nonunderspin serves is not as easy as compared to a tacky Hurricane or even 09c. It is the biggest weakness of the rubber. To use BH chiquita against FH short balls successfully, the right leg actually often needs to go beyond...

I tried that, it works as a surprise but I always get destroyed by fast long serves once I try to do that regularly. I simply am not fast enough in anticipation to be able to do BH chiquita from FH short while handling fast long serves with ease. If anyone has any tips on dealing with this...

FH flicks are still good, but you need to improve its effectiveness as you go up in level. Personally I find the standard topspin variant to be close to giving up initiative to the opponent unless you're damn explosive in power. There's more advanced variants like having both the fade and hook...

Seems like you didn't read the rest of my posts lol... I was doing plenty of FH flicks with D05. But when a good opponent serves a short serve and moves a step from the table well prepared to loop strongly from both wings, a FH flick (especially topspin variants like the ones you're doing) is...

Update from me going full Gozo (Viscaria+ D05 both wings). This setup really makes me enjoy attacking table tennis finally, I won all my games against my regular training partners yesterday. My FH loops are now much harder to block and counterloops are also landing very nicely now, and the dwell...

Haha, yes contacting the side of the ball slightly is extremely useful in reducing the amount of spin variation you need to deal with and to increase dwell time, and you can use it for pretty much everything from pushes to loops to flicks. But if you go too much to the dark side (ie only rely...

Yes that's true. If you practice enough with some equipment you become good at it nevertheless. Technique (including ball reading and handling skills) is the most important aspect.

With inverted rubbers dead tacky rubbers are the best for chopblocking imo. With Dignics the chopblock will often end up sky high due to the bounciness...

That's exactly my point. If you can direct the weight transfer upwards when looping heavy backspin, you can also also direct the weight transfer forwards and even downwards when looping against topspin. So the weight transfer is like a mountain, there's a initial upwards component and a later...

To further the point, there comes a point where just racket angles is insufficient to deal with the incoming spin just because it is simply of too high quality - you need to learn how to use the centre of gravity to control the spin. Also overly open or closed angles lead to more errors...

Yes that is correct, but you only got half the story imo. More thickness = more energy that can be absorbed and then released later into the ball = higher ball quality. Basically, higher thickness allows you to put more energy into the ball without the sponge bottoming out. Same with hardness -...

You're thinking a bit too much about racket angle imo. I use Dignics 05 (probably one of the fastest rubbers out there) and still I never contact the ball more than 45 deg closed even on counterloops. Open-ish racket angles are easier to ensure consistent solid contact with the ball which...

Omg Xu Hui like the CNT national player here?! How did you get to play him?!

Played today and I was focusing on energy saving measures because my cardio is still terrible after cough recovery. One is the preparation bounces - i only need to start when the ball is thrown in the air, no need to start beforehand and waste energy. The other measure which I found works...

Coz you're using the "full Gozo" setup 😂😂

I hate the FH flip too, but everyone and their dog in the TT world knows that FH short is a weakness for shakehand players so they will serve short FH all the time if they smell this weakness and if there's no FH flip, the varied no spin and sidetopspin serves will be a nightmare (especially the...

It's not just the tackiness but the sponge too in my opinion. It becomes unplayable much faster than 05.