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having your right foot a little infront or left foot a little back will make your looping with backhand more natural, but make sure you dont overexaggerate it, because the next ball to the wide forehand will be very difficult to catch. If you are comfortable with the short backhand push...

I thought the wave drive 9 were for wider feet. Your shoe looks exaggeratedly tightened.. Perhaps this shoe is not for your feet

iiirc you can not correctly even read data with your durometer because the specification says that the material has to be at least 6mm thick or something, so whatever you are reading is including the topsheet and the underlying surface.

Dont change rubbers and blade at the same time. Use the same rubbers on it to be properly to evaluate the changes.

for this to be true the rubber would need to have some tangential catapult builtin, which is not true. The same as a ball shot with a slingshot can never fly faster than what the elastic bands you "loaded"/pulled generate. After leaving the slingshot the speed only decreases. It is the same...

You winning or competing in training matches against a 2000 rating player does not make you of similar rating. Higher level players will of course use the opportunity to test new techniques or tactics that they lack practice in against lower players like you. This will probably lead to many...

if you have the same feeling with Acoustic and an outer ALC then the issue is not the blade but you not having developed any feeling at all. you better stay for at least for 6 month with the Acoustic to get a base feeling for it. Don't bother changing something faster, if you dont even feel the...

>2100 TTR usually

i just found something uplifting. Somebody beating Naplokov even though that dude would have lost against 90% of the higher rated players that Naplokov slayed recently. This is Francesco Maragioglio from TTC Oggersheim (Germany). He is above 40 already and plays short pips on his backhand...

of course he does. Butterfly would generate revenue from their rubbers (regardless if one sticks with the same one or changes them) periodically anyways, but having the people also switch blades is much more lucrative for them.

which is very odd that something that can be checked much easier by the players themselves (like bat & rubber thickness) would be found more often than something dubious like treated pimples these statements can be true all by themselves. you are putting them together in the same context, but...

with your style of power first and spin second you probably have less issues with these on your level i woud assume.

thank you, Tony. i find it odd that most of them are simply too thick rubbers and none actually mention friction. is that even tested or are the tools simply to sparse so that this will not be tested.

i think it is very bold to say that such a high level player like andreas should simply "learn the game" (against pips-out or whatever). Nie does not need to score the points with his LP side, if he simply forces Levenenko to loop a ball too high with it, so that he can finish it with a smash of...

The ratings discussion was not aimed at you directly, but it can be compared anyways. you think of yourself of a virtual rating that tells you that you should beat player x, y and Z and still you lost against them. you have to decide for yourself if your inner rating is wrong. a smart man once...

just found another game with an even bigger difference in rating by the same pips-out player. you really have to feel bad for the looper as you see him not having a weapon against the chopping and random smashing.

its not that bad to play with it, if you want to stay with your current technique and skills, but if you want to improve rapidly, yes i think an all wood blade would significantly boost your rate of improvement.

If these are the only blades you have, of course the innerlayer one would be the better, but at your stage i would tell you that you can not handle the speed of any of these and should go 5ply wood to learn the basics.

w with that rating difference the lower rated players has a probability of winning of around 35%. 100 points difference is quite a lot even inside one league it would be heavily favouring the one player. In this example we obviously see that even good players can not often "wing it" when...

a few points from the perspective of somebody playing for 3 years (but only about 6 months competitively). winning against somebody in a training match or even playing "good" and losing only closely is no indicator of your match performance. In a real match many people will play very...