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Yes it's all about deception and spin/placement variation. Firstly you need really spinny serves and then learn to vary them. The hardest spins to receive are BH pendulum/FH hook/reverse pendulum/tomahawk to their short FH corner, FH pendulum to their short BH. The sidetopspin variant is usually...

Your stroke is actually not bad but yeah you're using a very fast setup lol. The issue is that in matches, a lot of the incoming balls won't be blocks, but rather various underspin ish balls with various degrees of sidespin, etc... which can be a nightmare to deal with. If you don't loop those...

Yep that is actually the 2nd variant of the straight arm loop that he showed there. Haha it appears that Timo learnt the straight arm loop too!

I think point no.2 is quite good - having the arm mostly bent during the majority of the backswing allows for more adjustability of the stroke to unexpected fast balls, because you can even choose to not straighten the arm at all from the backswing to gain more time and space to hit the ball -...

On further analysis it appears Ma Long also delays the straightening to just before the forward swing starts - the delay is just not as drastic as what Zhang Jike is doing.

Maze is using the completely bent arm chicken wing stroke (at no point does he straighten the arm) - so it's not even a straight arm loop (the focus of this discussion). Ma Long appears to straighten fully during the backswing in this video at least. Zhang Jike actually keeps it bent during...

I think when ppl talk about going too much to the left it's more about the arm movement or body rotation, not so much about the centre of gravity. So basically it's just a minor tweak to have your upper body leaning forward above the left knee at the end of the stroke (no need to move your arm...

Imo it's pretty good and powerful already except it appears you did a half hearted weight transfer ie back to neutral, with your arm going forward rather than the full weight transfer directly to your left leg. If you did the complete weight transfer at the end of the swing you would be leaning...

With both strokes the legs and hips are the major movers for sure. However the arm is also a major amplifier of that initial impulse and can be quite important imo... I'm not sure the exact mechanics of it, but staying bent during the backswing and only straightening during the forward swing...

That's completely not what this is referring to - both strokes are essentially the same straight arm stroke with the straightening and contraction of the arm (changing the angle between forearm and upper arm), just with different timing of the arm straightening. So what is being discussed is...

Yeah, I've been toying around with it a bit, it seems that going to the backswing position with the arm bent is better than having the arm straightened - it seems to make for a more powerful "snap to salute" at the end. I think zeio's explanation is probably what is happening - if there's less...

This is really interesting, I never thought of it this way but it does make a lot of sense! So delaying the straightening of the arm allows the eccentric energy from the straightening to boost the concentric movement ie the contraction of the arm according to this theory. I might give it a go.

Not really, he appears to be talking about the distance of the elbow to the waist which I agree should be small. You can straighten your arm during the backswing or keep it bent and still have the elbow close to the waist. But in his demonstration he appears to keep it bent too...

I noticed that a few players who use the straight arm FH actually do this while others don't. Basically some actually go to the backswing position with a bent arm - then the arm straightens during the forward stroke itself and then snaps back to bent during the ball contact. What is the...

Interesting 🤔 I'll have more of a read into it...

The reviews of Hurricane 9 were very negative as it's only semi tacky and not spin rich to boot. I think I'll probably pass on it.

I wish there was like a 39 deg Hurricane 8-80 - it'll be the perfect tacky FH rubber which works without boosting. But unfortunately 38 is all they can go up to, so that is what I'm using. Can't complain too much though - it is a really excellent spin monster (even coming from D09c the ultimate...

Imo the huge benefit of tacky rubbers is precisely that - you don't need such a thin brush to create very high spin/speed ratios of the outgoing ball. I think a lot of ppl don't realise that thin brush is more prone to timing errors than thick brush, and this is where tacky rubbers shine. This...

Alexis played pretty crushing table tennis in the final, Felix was just completely outmatched in power/spin and didn't get much advantages in speed either. It reminded me of ZJK crushing Wang Hao repeatedly, ouch!

I don't know but this is kinda hilarious for me 😂😂😂