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BH serve is not that hard to hide. Just requires a higher toss followed by putting your arm in front of the contact,. The real issue is that good illegal serve hiding is not easy. The best servers who hide serves do things with their racket angle before and after contact that throw you off...

Yes. It really depends on how you are swinging at the ball. There is nothing wrong with fading sidespin on any stroke as long as the stroke is still predominantly topspin.

This too:

Practice, practice, practice. Use a circular upper arm motion to whip the wrist around the side of the ball - don't try to spin hard behind it, I try to teach it here: --https://youtu.be/N04Nb52GKfU?t=2144--

The CNT are really afraid...

Played yesterday but no videotape (skipped Monday and Tuesday for travel). I tend to experiment a lot when the camera is not on and I am trying to work on holding the ball even longer than I currently do. My knees started hurting yesterday after a tough match and another match where I Tried to...

It's almost like no one here has heard of the snake serve... your version is impressive to me, Siva. I am going to share it with Brett.

The Mizutani ha the ZLC ply closer to the exterior like the ZJK ZLC, but has limba outer plies, like the Apolonia ZLC.

I would say that if you have used the original Innerforce ZLC and liked it, don't assume you are getting the same thing. Treat the new blade as a new thing in terms of balance and play and see whether you enjoy it.

Maybe it is when the player grunts and hits the ball past me that I get annoyed. It is also quite possible that as I have tuned it out better as I have gotten better.

I play everyone. I am still allowed to have things that annoy me. I will still try to beat them. But I still get annoyed when everything has been silent then all of a sudden, I get a grunt on a third ball power loop out of nowhere. If it was something that made me lose matches all the time...

Here is my advice. You already have a coach. There are no shortcuts in this game. It took me about a year and a half or training with two good coaches to break 1700, and I was probably 800-1000 when I started. Pick any blade or rubber you want, work with your coach, video yourself and look...

Finally, to get good feedback, you need to post video. General advice helps, but may never address the real issue.

Samson Dubina wrote a blog post recently that seemed like a direct response to a thread that David Song started here. While we dealt mostly on cognitive skills and anticipation, Dubina argued (quite correctly as I have said similar things in the past under the influence of the coach that got me...

Nah. It is something I am working on but think about it. I have put a slow push to the middle of the table. I know the ball is weak but I have to be ready to defend. You load up for a power stroke. Up until this point, you haven't made a single noise. Then you torque into the ball and...

Gotta hand it to Butterfly though. They discontinued a classic blade (Innerforce ZLC), raised the price and renamed it the Tiago Appolonia ZLC, and created a piece of crap called the Inner Layer ZLC for people who will spend money without ever figuring out what they did. That's why we all love...

Keenan, Great work. Did you consider playing in the Nationals? Did practice against pips or heavy backspin feature into any part of your training?

Which is why pro players complain about camera flashes and loud noises. But seriously, it all depends on what you train against. Auditory cues are part of TT and having someone grunt out my cue to time the ball inconsistently has the effect of throwing me off when he does it.

If you like a rubber, you can use it on any blade that fits your style. If you like a blade, you cab use it with any rubber that fits your style. The idea that certain rubbers only go with certain blades is nonsense. The first question is always your style and what fits that style. And even...

Sure. What's your point? That I can't be distracted by or should not be distracted by irregular behavior? If they want to grunt, grunt all the time including service.