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This is the one I wanted to add.

It is a sanctioned/rated event but not a Tour event.

Nice one!

It's not bogus. The slow motions are pretty much sufficient but Brett made some supplemental videos for members. But feel free to ask about the serves. The app has only 3 serves of each type. All the serves are pros so their serves are pretty similar for each spin with the minor exception...

Many people (usually lower rated players) lift their rackets on their blocks to block with topspin. Sometimes, this can lead to their being unable to block properly in matches or play close to the table in general.

Here you can watch lots of top players practice at the world cup but I would like you to just look at Koki Niwa and Jun Mizutani. Different techniques, but you see the same circular motion in their strokes. This is how they swing at the ball 95% of the time, they just change the swing path...

Yeah, that is what they tell people who don't get it. The thing is that some people try to hit the ball and then jerk their wrist to add spin or something like that. It is bad *default* technique and has issues in terms that it reduces the overall swing speed so it should not be your default...

Brett Clarke (TTEdge) made the distinction between drives/counterhits/flat strokes vs topspins/loops/kick blocks meaningful for me by explaining to me how it affects blocks so I teach drives so that people learn to block properly in practice and consistently in matches. Before learning drives...

Danny Seemiller serves like this and it is evil. The key is to look for slice or brush hit. Slice means backspin, brush hit usually means sidespin or side topspin. Do you have the TTEdge app? Brett has something not quite as evil but similar. 3 is very likely topspin/sidespin and 4 is very...

If you can stay that way it is good for you. It is hard not to let the opinions of others affect you sometimes but tuning it out is best.

The opponent saying "thank you" is one of those annoying traits people pick up in club play, but I can be just as irritated by apologies as I know they are ultimately insincere given the sports rules, and many opponents apologize for my serve misses etc.. And most of the cheering does come from...

Try hard to look at the angle of the paddle and the amount of surface area. Also look hard at the direction of paddle when it stabs the ball. More towards the tip of the paddle tends to indicate side backspin unless the motion is really sideways and more behind the ball. More towards the...

The slow release of the ball. Throws off my timing especially on pushes. Sometimes the arc does as well, as it comes through the table with more spin than the arc tends to communicate until I adjust.

This is off topic but congrats on your new set up. I see you are ready for the big time!

People cheer missed dunks in NBA games too. At some point, it's best to develop ways to handle the pressure than to act as if it's a bad thing to want to win a zero sum game.

This is so true it is not funny. Whenever I see someone using Hurricane or Tenergy, I want to complain. Seriously. Especially Hurricane. As for spin, even world class players who have been playing all their lives sometimes make mistakes in spin read on serve return. If it can happen to...

Possible but I think she wanted me to release the upper arm. My stroke was highly forearm snap oriented. The turns have more to do with bad knees not allowing the rotation. But I do the best I can.

They probably just skipped the video, the series is old. Everyone needs a backhand loop, especially vs backspin, in modern play to reduce the footwork demands unless their countering game is ridiculously high level. I agree one can play well without a backhand loop close to the table but it...

The guy hasn't responded but the simplest way to put it is that Hridoy is trying to avoid and brush the ball with a thin racket angle to generate spin. He needs to learn to hit the ball with a turning motion to generate spin or he will continue to whiff the ball.

The other 1% would have pushed it, including Ma Long on another day.