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Sure. And I believe some kids will not be able to if they do the same either. If we pick 10 random kids, my opinion is that less than 5 will do it. People underestimate the importance of reading and creating tricky spins in this game. It is not trivial.

2801 out of how many registered players? Are there more players below or above him? If you coach people, you will realize that people who tend to play and train are the ones that don't give up and love the sport. And many of them do not break 1800, talk less of 2200. I am not posting for...

Mark hits - he doesn't loop.

MB has basically moved all over to his forehand side to cover your wide serve and you serve nothing down the line to keep him honest - really? EDIT: I see you focused on a particular play.

You can look at WLQ's ranking and the events he participated in over the same period. He was not in the Olympics, for example, though he was the #1 player. I am actually going back as far as 1987. Chen Yinghua said he used to beat Jiang Jialiang in practice very often - the best Chinese...

Men, you are already outdated. There is this kid called FZD who has the backhand to end all backhands... Kreanga has a special talent for having two forehands with power and consistency but I wouldn't be going around teaching his technique... FZD's technique is the one I would teach if asked...

Whenever someone says this, I say to my head: "Forehand player."

I have avoided the topic until now because I consider it a waste of time usually and the player I would pick is Ma Long. People should note that there was a period in China where they had good/strong shakehand inverted loopers but kept them under wraps. Wang Liqin actually was also held back...

Two ways to sucker me - Butterfly marketing hype on rubbers (Tenergy) or Nexy marketing hype on rubbers(Karis). Blades tend to be too expensive for the hype to fool me. Elpis didn't have any hype so I missed it (Chinese rubber, low price). I reviewed the OLAM so I could use that - on the...

Big Fatty beats Little Fatty - or is it the other way round?

I doubt he used it in Rio.

My primary wide lens camera is damaged - I took it to the repair shop and they told me they could not fix it this week so I have to make do with my backup which has a narrower view of the table and needs more distance from the table to capture anything. I finally switched to Nexy Karis 100%...

No, I meant brush more over the ball from the left front and put the ball into the wide backhand - it might not get there but at least it is the safer option with power as there is more table. Reverse serve into the backhand with heavy spin is designed to be hard to spin to the wide forehand...

The opponent has a consistent forehand opener and no backhand opener though he has an okay backhand block. In that case, usually I recommend that one should push to the backhand and go with power to the forehand as the forehand is usually a stroke for such players that requires a wind up to...

Then turn your arm upside down and do the hook serve and that is your pendulum serve.

Sometimes, my friend, you can't and shouldn't stop the darkness.

Let me put it to you another way. If I am working with Brett on something, until he approves the video of what I am doing or until I am tired of trying and give up, I continue to send him video for comments because I want to be sure that he is convinced that I am on the right path, or that I...

It's all in Brett's video on efficient serve mechanics. Carl knows better with his drumstick motion on his hook serve, but for some reason, he isn't applying it here. MAybe it is because his attempt to hold the ball as long as possible is interfering with his mechanics. Holding the ball as...

This is not a good camera angle but you get a better idea of what DerEchte is talking about. In Mark's video, he has a delayed whip effect that is very hard to pick up unless you know what you are looking for. For below, fast forward to 30 seconds in.

You said it not me ;).