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Mechanics. You’re transferring power to the ball by means of a system of connected levers (your limbs). These limbs extend differently between your FH and BH zone, and since you’re leveraging force over these distances you get a substantial inequality in momentum.

I still think this is lowly tabloid stuff. Giving air to such a story is the real issue here. To me, there is no problem. Anybody's private life is just that – private. "Act as a model for society outside the competition", that's a dud as well. Anybody should exhibit exemplary behaviour in...

Quite a few of these available already. I’d think it would have to bring something extra of its own to stand out from the existing crowd.

It isn’t. Opening short(ish) serves to the FH by stepping in and using a BH flick instead of a FH is quite common.

Yes, for certain things at a certain level of play.

Oooh. You just made me want a Gatien ccard.

So, Mizutani has a consensual relation with a partner slightly, but not even that much, younger — and certainly old enough to be considered a consenting adult. I fail to see why this is newsworthy, let alone why this should lead to suggestions or lewd assumptions. I may be lacking in...

Design is not about superficial cosmetics. Design is about how it works. A well-designed blade is a blade that works well. I happen to believe that te intersection between the sets of well-designed blades and truly good-looking blades is richly populated, whereas the intersection between...

Make sure your shoe soles are clean, and put a moist towel next to the table and tread on that every now and then. It might help.

I'm in awe with what I see. Much enthusiasm. But I'm missing major components of the game, and would humbly suggest that a review would do well to address a wider spectrum and include serve, receive, the touch game too.

I do not understand this.

Speculations are just that. In the distant past, women had a separate competition and were prohibited from playing in the mens in my region. This has changed (although there still is a women only competition). It changed after one woman player fought for dispensation, managed to get it...

I've played with Rozena for over a year. Prior to that, I used T05 and to me Rozena was a step-up in the sense that while keeping a lot of the good T05 things intact, it did so with additional confidence. As feelings go, Rozena and T05 felt clearly kin, but T05fx is a different thing...

Could you elaborate on what you mean by this ’dàsài mìng’? I have hunches and guesses (which would be something along the lines of peaking when it matters most), but suspect you might mean something more clearly defined.

I was thinking about hitting against a robot for a few stretches to engrain something different. That might help.

Starting to reconstruct my FH. Again. My coach told me 40 years ago already to shorten it up. I did and tried hard to go further, but the development of the game the last few decades has made the need to do so even more urgent. So, a closer step into the ball, earlier forearm snap...

Yes. Anything below the wrist, as per writ.

Stabilizing the hit when not in the proper contact zone, i.e. when hitting a ball slightly out of optimal reach.

In these matters play level and style tend to matter. I could disregard that and mention Baracuda, Vega Pro, Fastarc, Hexer, Genesis II, Nanoflex, Nexxus, Omega VII, Gold Arc 8, and that to me T05FX sux rotten eggs thru a straw, but really, level and style do matter.

Momentum is the product of force and distance (the driving force being delivered by whip mechanics in differring ways on both wings). Even with equal force, the larger distance of the FH travel implies a disparaty in the generated momentum.