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If it helps to think about, then I see no harm. I've been down that path and it never helped me. I don't see the serve as that different from the other strokes. With the serve most modify their grip to hold with mostly the thumb and index finger. When you've reached high racket speed from...

I also think it's not a good idea to do things consciously with the arm while it's being propelled by the body - speaking from own experience I have tried and failed. The legs and body propel the arm and the racket just happens to collide with the ball. Some say they pinch using their fingers...

I find it hard to say, but now that you point it out I agree I prefer the 3rd one. Maybe I rotated a bit more and put more pressure on my leg! Brett has told me to try to bring my right knee more in so it points to my left calf muscle, I'm not always doing this properly - if I do that the left...

I agree Carl - right is the wrong word, but even if it hurt or not, I think it was more inefficient than the alternative. Why it started hurting was probably more because I was turning my waist/hips as hard as I could to get more power and doing that over and over again too much.. bit stupid of...

It's funny how it works. I had a similar experience a while ago. There was one set where we had a couple of good points - I lost the match but still felt happy about it. Then I watched the match and saw that I made a large number of mistakes, more than the points where he hit winners and...

I think the wrong thing I was doing was the twisting of the hips/waist instead of pushing with my leg, and I was overtwisting to the right. Since correcting it I've had less pain but occasionally it's there when I accidentally do it by bad habit. I must've done the wrong thing for quite some...

Oh yeah, I was just trying to recall my experience from then, I'm aware you weren't commenting on that old FH :) And I completely agree with you about the context of relaxation that you're talking about. That's not the context I've been told to relax in my past experiences. People would...

@NL thank you, this is very helpful advice, recently I was trying to do the backswing closer to my body and I will try to do it even more like you say. I think before I've been doing the backswing too far away and then it's difficulty to get the feeling that the body is helping with the BH...

I really appreciate your thoughts! The weird thing is that I find it tricky to actually remember what has gone on before, so I can't be 100% confident even in my own experience and memory of it lol. In the 2 year old clip I was for sure consciously using my arm during the forward swing as I...

Thank you! Maybe you can let me know your opinion 😀 and I'll let you know what my thoughts have been. Here's a movement drill, it's possible I regress a bit here but I still think I'm mostly doing what I'm aiming to do. I've also recently been working on my BH vs backspin, Brett Clarke is...

I've recently, after some feedback, changed the focus of my FH slightly. Here's before the change (about a month ago): Here's after (about a week ago):And for another interesting comparison from 2 years ago when I, for the most part, wasn't sure what I was doing.I really hope I won't have to...

No problem! I just wanted to clarify. I wouldn't have brought it up if it weren't the case that a very high rated Swedish player told and showed me what I was doing. Then I thought to myself, actually he's right, before this interaction, my mental model of the stroke was that the racket should...

I'm unsure if it was the discussion that I brought up or if there's been some other one about that. In either case I don't think it should be a major focus. In my case my mental model of the stroke before wasn't ideal and I was restricting the follow-through and therefore slowing down my...

Even though Dima did an incredible job winning against Anton, it felt like Anton was the better player.

Curious to know what that something is 😀.

I think the twist/hip rotation is more the older style backhand, which of course can still be used and effective, especially when there is time. The bottom-up/bowing motion seems to be the new technique most players these days go for. The player who told me about the forward swing pretty much...

Wow, thanks so much all of you. I know all of you really know your stuff, I very much appreciate your comments. And thanks NL for your kind words, I'm glad you're keeping well and congrats on becoming a father!! I hope I didn't give the impression that I'm complaining about my backhand. Just...

Yes Carl you're spot on! In an older bh vid I posted here NL and Echte told me it looked like I was hitting the ball too far in front, I was scratching my head over this and wondering why and how I could fix it. I now wonder if the reason for that was because I wasn't following through properly...

Recent training with Nicky. Trying to retrain my backhand for the 1283465th time. Originally I had problems overusing the wrist. Much later a coach told me to use more forearm, then I tried to use more forearm, but my body movement was all wrong and I stopped involving the wrist at all, or when...

Fully agree Baal. and I feel because of how messy this all is, it makes table tennis more unfriendly for newcomers. It's very hard to find good info and if you're new it's even harder to discern what's good or bad. Even with coaches, they don't seem to agree on many things. I've had all kinds of...