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Not entirely sure why China is being picked upon for just being neutral in the war. Many other countries, for eg India and quite a few South American countries have remained neutral too. It's quite bizarre that the actual invader ie Russia is not picked upon. Is it because Russia is a white...

Tomahawk and hook serves are just a lot easier to serve and delivers the same spin type. It didn't take me a long time to learn, but I don't use it anymore sadly...

What I found is that the FH pendulum down the line is not very effective against right handed players because it will curve right into their ideal FH looping zone, and worse, it is the natural blade angle for FH looping to cancel out the sidespin. It's way more effective against left handers...

You can do long fast serves with any kind of spin you want. One of my deadliest serves is the hook sideunderspin long serve designed to jam bad BHs. If they can't loop this, I will definitely get an easy ball to loop on the 3rd ball because ain't no way they can push this long fast serve short...

I agree with the long pips solution. Get hard Chinese rubber on the FH and long pips (preferably treated xD). Learn a spinny af borderline hidden serve and a decent FH loop against underspin, and prioritise learning using long pips to receive serve, then kill all the pop ups with your inverted FH.

Everyone sees something different. I see the two bounces now clearly - one for recovery and one to prepare for the shot.

Craig Bryant's one is ridiculous lol..even going to double and triple fakes 😂😂😂

This movement can generate some serious sidebackspin and sidetopspin - it's my bread and butter serve at this point. This serve is why I transitioned to full grip instead of the Waldner service grip for my pendulum serves - in order to serve both serves with the same preparation movement for max...

Granted he is not as good as a hook server as compared to say Wang Chuqin (who will never show his true secrets in a video), but I too struggled af to read it. Do you see the difference?

Yes - it's quite obvious that the loops are simply not dipping as hard as it is when they're using something like Dignics 05 or 09c.

Wow this really looks slow and unspinny even on video...

More to come!

Haha yes, it is a "hardcore" exercise (pun intended)

Yes, and even with sidetopspin he shows the flatter racket angle first before changing it subtly to contact the back of the ball. Yikes!

This is one of the most underrated hardcore exercises for core training. You can go into a slightly curved path if you want to train obliques too. I saw PechPong have one of these too in his room. If you have a strong core and brace it properly, it helps you make your movements a lot more...

Yes - that's what I always do. Same with BH loop/counter shadow followed by recovery step, serve shadow followed by recovery and short push/flick/chiquita followed by recovery (intermediate step that I was talking about). Each of these recovery steps feel very different but the concept is...

Pretty interesting video of Yan An serving. I could only barely read the serve in slow motion. Skip to 3:05 to see the sidetopspin vs sideunderspin comparison.

Imo split squats and lunges are highly underrated in table tennis to really develop very good strength in the legs. The FH preparation position is a lunge, and we also receive short balls in a lunge position - so the direct applications are quite numerous. For FH I think chest flies are the...

I find it strange that inverted players are saying that a spinnier rubber is harder to control than a less spinny rubber. Faster bouncier rubbers are harder to control, but imo spinnier rubbers enhance control especially if you're actively producing spin in all shots. Spinny rubber allows you to...

This is why I don't move the wrist much in my strokes... imo the use of the fingers and forearm pronation/supination is sufficient for spin creation. But the power has to come from the legs - if the hand has to do both jobs (create power and spin) you're gonna overload it which will cause some...