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Does anyone else find it mighty impressive that OP got to this level in just 2 years of playing?!

I'm also contemplating between various ways to kick-start movements during serve receive. One is moving upper body from side to side like Truls, the other is bouncing on the knees like the Lebrun brothers, the other is rapid shuffling of the feet in place like He Zhi Wen. Fan Zhendong and Ma...

I went for training again today, and found out a way to really ingrain the movement even during warmup practice. Even when serving a normal topspin serve to start the counter rally, you have to bounce on your knees twice before you hit the ball, and when other people are serving to you, you also...

For me personally, the timing of the hit is not as important as actually hitting in the ideal zone (golden triangle concept) and timing your weight transfer exactly at the moment of ball contact (I'm working on it too). So for fast balls you'll be taking them earlier, slow balls you'll be taking...

For some reason, the handle is super comfortable for me, fits like a glove to my hands. I also really like how direct they feel when going BH-BH. I reckon I'm gonna stick with this for a long, long time. I just tried it out against a chopper and FH looping against those nasty chops are just a...

I just had a 1 hr hit, this is like the most amazing setup ever. It's even faster and penetrating compared to my 09c days. Sooo much easier to loop underspin too and the ball stays on the racket forever! Just loving it so much now. Some of the ppl at the club said that it's like a 30% increase...

I'm going full Gozo mode now. Full speed and spin mode, control can get lost :) Muahahaha

The weight transfer and arm movement is all there on both wings which makes it quite good and relaxed (amazing for 2 year experience!! I was an annoying pusher and blocker for my first few years lol). The thing I think could be improved is to widen the stance (distance between feet) and that...

To elaborate on the golden triangle concept - I use it too. Basically you want all your ball contact to occur with the triangle formed with the three sides being left forearm, right forearm, and your body. The ball should be contacted at the intersection between your two hands.

If we notice the degree of rotation of the shoulders and the level of knee bend and hip bend, the CNT FH has a few characteristics. At the max backswing position, the shoulder is about 90 deg to the ball and the body is roughly leaning about 30 degs - to achieve this involves both bending at...

For me it's the opposite, I feel like I naturally love the closing of the angle because of the control it allows me, it's a remnant when I was using 09c, and for me other unboosted rubbers didn't give me this feeling of security in terms of wrapping the ball (and then releasing it with huge...

Yep, and the reason why CNT and the Korean national team gets a lot more FH power, is that they simply have a greater amount of body rotation and go deeper/lower in their lunge position during the backswing and thus store more lower body energy, and thus create a more powerful stroke. I don't...

Would like to add some comments. A lot of the times we look at the pros racket movement and swing path and how the arm looks, but often neglect the role of the body. The biggest misconception is the role of the arm. Imo the arm movement difference between Euro and Chinese FH is not necessarily...

I played with some old partners yesterday. The strange thing is that I developed the habit of having the recovery step against other players, but somehow when I play these old partners whom I played with for a long time, the bad habits all come back 😂 probably a case of bad muscle memory...

I usually play about 3 balls worse (for eg in a match that will normally go to 10-10 I will now go to 7-10) when I'm sick or after a long day at work because of this. The brain has a limited capacity to focus after all. I reckon just chill and accept it as part of TT life. No need to...

Dignics series actually does the best with thick contact with the closing of the blade angle as part of the contact (see for eg Ovtcharov stroke structure - it's ideal for Dignics). With that kind of contact you can wrap the ball completely and you gain a lot of consistency because of the...

You have to do an immediate recovery intermediate step after the pivot. So during the FH loop itself you transfer weight to your left foot, and immediately use that to bounce yourself back towards the right, then you have to do a large crossover step. It's very important to land with weight on...

Hmm I never heard of Golden Tango before and I don't think it's sold at my local shop? 05 is terrible for short receives especially push control imo because of the sheer bounciness. But it is amazing for aggressive strokes like flicks and chiquita. My thinking is that once I switch to D05 on the...

Lol I just feel like it's humiliating when I throw such force into the ball with the FH and it gets blocked back so easily. Whereas with my BH with D05 I'm doing a really short snappy stroke and the ball goes out like bullets with huge spin to boot. I was literally winning everything today with...

Played a few hours with friends after a long episode of cold/cough. I'm now pissed off with Hurricanes on my FH. Just too much work for too little reward. My BH was my main point winner today and my FH loop was just so easily blocked except for looping serves that drift long. Life's too short to...