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I dig Gozo's approach to TT - he seems to obtain a lot more zen and enjoyment from it than a lot of hypercompetitive stressed up folks I see in the TT world (though they probably will play better TT than Gozo, but we all have a ceiling eh).

I have a few opponents who specialise in doing this serve and it is indeed a very annoying serve. Against this serve, BH chiquita is the optimal receive, especially the diagonal to the wide FH. But the footwork is difficult especially if the opponent mixes the long/short placement up. There...

Spin sucks compared to D05, but it's incredibly spin insensitive which makes it much better for control in general imo

Ahh I get what you mean now, I thought it was like in tennis where you literally slide across the ground to get more reach ie taking advantage of the slippery ground 🤣

I played on a slippery floor yesterday which really sucked, it didn't really matter whether I did the recovery step because I didn't even do much weight shifting due to the fear of slipping. But definitely I can see that I'm much better at looping after a serve receive (4th ball attack) after...

Btw slippage (using the same terminology from pickleball) is indeed a big issue when looping at high swing speeds (talk to anyone who plays in humid af conditions and you'll know), and lousier rubbers just doesn't have capacity to "grip" the ball to force it to match the swing speed in...

So you admit that there is a max spin limit, and you also admit that minimum friction is required to grip the ball esp at high swing speeds. This all means that the equipment matters, in fact quite a lot. I'm still waiting for an experiment where you achieve 80 rps with dead rubber (which...

😂 Slide step?! What even is that lol...

Lol it's like a safety hazard already - I saw quite a few people tumbling when trying to reach wide balls... I'll try the damp paper towel thing, but it seems like the entire university hall is slippery af. There's really a lot of unsafe crap out there tbh and very few venues actually invest in...

For starters, there's no friction in your equations, when you yourself admit that friction is very important. Hence, the equation cannot be right in the context of TT without the consideration of friction. Zeio's link to pickleball mechanics actually contains a complete equation and model which...

Played in a new arena with really slippery floors. I have no idea how my friend plays so well under such conditions. Almost slipped a couple of times and never could get into the correct position... there were a couple of guys who played there with pretty much arm only strokes and they managed...

It's funny because everyone sees the issues in his equations (even he himself sees it) but he is simply too arrogant to admit that he is plain wrong. It's quite the demonstration of ad hominem indeed. turbozed and zeio has already shown why his simplistic equations are simply wrong lol. It's...

You might be on to something here - why is friction not a part of your equations if you think it is important? Doesn't that say that you're missing quite a few very important items in your equations?

It's funny, he ignores everything that is not beneficial to himself. According to his equation, he should be able to achieve these rps values with a bare blade indeed!

Not sure why the other kid didn't just run around the side to reach it...

For the LOLs I did some quick napkin calc. In the video brokenball's ball appears to rotate from 1 o clock to 7 o clock or half a revolution in 1.5 sec or about 36 frames. That's 1 rev in 72 frames. At 2000 fps, that would be 2000/72 = 28 rps. And he appears to have done that using modern...

What piece of artwork is this from? It looks like it's in the style of Starry Night by Van Gogh, but it isn't.

Well even Timo Boll suggests using the shoulder lol (bringing the shoulder forward).... Personally I don't focus on it, there are a lot more important mechanisms imo.

I'll be waiting with your experiments. :) Also because you proposed the theory, you should be the one doing the calculations to prove it. Remember it has to be dead rubber or wood on blade and you have to achieve 80rps. I'm sure it's trivial for you to do it. Maybe when you go through the...

If brokenball is serious about it, he should film himself generating 80rps on a 40+mm ball with a piece of wood (since surface doesn't matter) with a high speed camera. You can calculate the outgoing spin fairly straightforward from the camera frames. If he can do it I'll eat my words :)...