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Congrats, bboloiy. Always respect due to people willing to test and forge their skills in the furnace of competition!

This tends to be the bottom line when dealing with someone who is asking this question. At the level that you may need these faster blades, this question is usually moot because of boosting. Pros are on record playing with Korbels and Powerwoods so if you need something faster, either you...

I think your analogy points out something that I was trying to find out by posting the more recent footage which is whether you were another strong proponent of CNT technique/practice as being an easy test of whether something is good or not. Tony Hawk is not a run of the mill guy. William...

One other option is a Nexy Dual impact blade. You can look into Peter Pan or Kim Jung Hoon - the blades have a non linear response and play slower on lower impact and much faster on hard impact.

Then you are looking for impossible things - you have to realize that the whole point of composite materials is to get stiff blades with thinner heads. IF you use pure wood, you need to gave the blade more and thicker plies to make it faster and stiffer. The blade will be heavier and it will...

UpsideDownCarl, Would your criticism still apply to this video? or this one:

Stratus Powerwood or Korbel.

Not sure what you mean by this. The ready position is him standing with the racket over his right leg, ready to play forehand or backhand. He gets there pretty quickly. Since he wants to cover more of the table with his backhand, his ideal ready position is closer to the middle of the table...

Again, I personally have never considered Henzell's serve a true tomahawk. I think Wang Hao's reverse serve is essentially similar.

Yes, WLQ won at the end, but he definitely didn't quickly learn to read the serve and even after he "read" it, he mostly produces responses that if the roles were reversed would have been destroyed or should have given Henzell a consistent upperhand. That's where the differences in forehand and...

I think your general idea is right, but the specifics are not that simple. The question is what kind of tomahawk/serve, how quickly does the player recover after the serve as well as what kind of weapons does the player have to use after he recovers from the serve. In general, I think the...

The greatest ad ever for the tomahawk serve:

Talking to Brett a lot tends to rub off on you (me)...

When you start young, almost no matter what you do, as long as you have high level coaching and talent, you usually end up good and relaxed. How you hold the racket is also a personal thing. But the wrist, forearm and shoulder are relaxed on all effective technique. Using two fingers is just...

Persson and Karakasevic have different but related grips.

Congrats, Paul. We selfishly hope the sleepless nights won't take you away from us.

Have you tried Tenergy 64 and Tenergy 80? Those are the logical places to start.

If you want to use more of your own power, always get a softer, slower blade - most players don't need more than OFF- to play well, though if you like OFF, it is okay. As my loops have gotten more powerful, since I don't move back from the table, I have been forced to use slower and slower...

I would like to suggest something a bit different - I have found Nike Free Trainer 3.0 (supposedly supposed to imitated barefoot play) to be extremely helpful.

I agree for the most part. However, XauriusCruz was citing Aruna in the context of straight arm vs. bent arm strokes. Aruna's stroke is the last stroke one should bring into this discussion.