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Very funny. I am younger than you are even if I do have auto-immune arthritis. I also wish there were higher level players giving advice but that has an issue (in my experience) if the higher level players haven't worked extensively with amateurs of the kind asking for advice, usually adults...

Vladi looks at his paddle and wishes he had Tenergy or Hurricane .... ONLY JOKING GUYS!!! :p

They played last week in Champions league so I am sure Muromatsu who lost studied the video harder.

I know you get coaching but my questions to you are as follows: 1. How old were you when you started playing? 2. How many older players have you extensively coached?

Assume you were coaching someone who started playing as an adult, maybe 3 or 4 years ago at most, possibly 2. What would you tell him? I know you can't see how long he has been playing for, so I want to see if that changes your approach to evaluating his game.

IMO, you are generally on a good path. There is a lot of stuff you do that I wish Boogar would take a page out of when trying to be very aggressive with your forehand. You are a backhand player so it is actually funny that Boogar who is a forehand player is not as aggressive when dealing with...

It's partly about footwork and adjusting to the ball correctly. But what you need to do is consistently spin. The stroke for attacking medium high balls is a bit different and is what you sometimes see me do when I straighten my arm and loop kill. But you aren't there yet. You should be...

Yes, you are. You could also just brush a little more even if you wanted to close the blade angle somewhat unnaturally, but that would give less spin and less of a hitting area. Spinning up round the side but while finishing on the same side and adjusting to keep the trajectory going mostly...

Yes. Use your imagination or watch some Timo Boll.

One way to think about it is to use your shoulder to cover the ball when playing forehands or flicks. That way, you avoid trying to play with just your hand. It's partly a footwork/balance thing, but the concept is helpful.

Those are not the shots DerEchte referenced. His times may have been off but use your thinking cap.

Try to get some more core/shoulder rotation on all your forehand shots though. There is a big difference when you do it and when you don't - its obvious and easy to do it on the big shots, but on some of the smaller spin ups, it's not there and that's why they don't have the same level of power.

They are the strokes DerEchte noted, you just finished shallow when you should have spun higher.

Angle is better, but I really can't evaluate strokes seriously when people are messing around and I have no idea of what you are trying to achieve. Some strokes are good in form when you turn the forearm inwards. But I can't see any evidence of a whippy stroke to get heavy rotation, but that...

The factors all contribute. In TT, many things go into a powerful shot and when you lose something from somewhere, you have to make it up elsewhere. IF you have a grip that doesn't let you move the wrist back and forth on both sides , it means you will have issues with hitting with pace with a...

Shuki does adjust and change his grip subtly throughout the match though, so it is more a feeling of comfort with the quality of the shot. Even if you have the right grip, the forehand flick can still be a pain to play if you don't know how to move closer to the ball to play a forehand shot...

The hook is not the problem, I play with hook too as do most backhand/backhand grip players. The inability to remove the thumb from the blade face is, as that makes it incredibly hard to take the wrist back and fade a forehand.

You can add the ZJK ALC and other such blades into the mix. This chart is always illuminating. http://www.butterflyonline.com/Templates/BladeSpecifications.pdf

Since the Appolonia is an Innerforce and the Freitas is a Maze, your statement is interesting. The issue is really price and rebranding for a specific market, not about the blades. The Garaydia is a different story and is a remarketing of their Hinoki outer line. It is really 3 different...

IT's because you don't turn your shoulders to play the forehand over the table. In general, you need to launch your shoulder slightly forward on all forehand shots, on the loops, turning the shoulders makes it obvious but on flicks, the pushing of the body into the shot can be so small it is...