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Well i can see that at least @Archosaurus is not blasting 70% of his opening loops into the net now compared to his first videos lol. To me that is quite nice improvement. Now the body usage, footwork, split step, backhand (which is way below the FH level) and pushing all needs a lot of work...

I would highly recommend to not serve so many varieties of serves in casual games against relative beginners to work a bit more on your rallying skills. Sure the easy points are great for your ego but you just wont develop as a player. For eg just serve underspin and train yourself to be able to...

Yes, you got it completely right. It feels like a 'floating step' where he doesnt precommit to anything until he actually sees the opponent hit the ball and knows where it is coming, then he drops his centre of gravity to load up the foot to instantaneously move to the required position. Yes...

Imo, you gotta build up step by step. A lot of technique is additive. Knowing how to use the fingers does not preclude knowing how to use the body or the hips or footwork. Each addition adds something useful to the stroke structure. Eventually the overall quality of the stroke is a combination...

This can all be achieved with good finger usage, and by that i dont mean in a vague way, you have to deliberately activate your fingers in a way that contributes to the acceleration of the racket in the intended brushing direction. And this can be different for topspin, serves and pushes and...

No, literally this concept of split step is basically absent in TT discourse until i repeated brought it up (I know almost all other racquet sports talk about it), but funnily enough all the pros do it. Obviously those who didnt do it were just doing things suboptimally and so wasnt good enough...

This is me transferring badminton footwork terminology to TT. The problem with TT is that the footwork terminology and teaching is just horribly bad. Obviously pros already do it intuitively, but these are not fully developed in the coaching literature at all, but is actually extremely critical...

TT is too fast for you to be able to do that. You dont need to get lined up perfectly because the upper body can still adjust positioning (for eg reaching or chicken wing), but the more you have to do that the worse your results will be. Also videos are misleading, there is a huge difference...

Basically, once you load your right leg in preparation for a FH loop, there is no more foot adjustments that can be made, and you can only adjust via other parts of the body. So the best way is to be noncommital and split step properly when the opponent hits the ball.

Yeah, after weight transfer to the left foot, the right foot can be a bit 'floating' and then time a split step on the front foot exactly when the opponent hits the ball, which then powers you to move directly into the next step (ie the 'confirmation step' where you plant your feet before...

Basically i think a lot of it is mental. As we grew up, too many people tell us that we cant do this, cant do that, etc... and the adult world places so many limits on us, so that we can become obedient worker bees that the societal upper class wants us to be. We lost the childlike...

Tbh imo it is probably too hard to try to overwhelm opponents by opening loop -> mid distance BH powerlooping and then hammer them till they miss their block. A lot of people are just damn good at BH blocking and mid distance BH powerlooping is just too damn difficult. I feel like if you...

Yep. Tbh a lot of these sound obvious now that i played and trained a lot of badminton, but i was pretty blind to them when i only played TT. I havent tried a lot of serve and serve receive, probably would be super rusty now...

Played a bit of TT after a damn long time (i lost track) of not playing TT and pretty much switching to badminton. Table tennis now feels a lot more fun lol after this break. So one thing I brought over from badminton is way, way better understanding of footwork and body turning mechanics and I...

Imo having a low hand relative to the body is outdated. Most modern philosophy just go down with the legs and hip hinge and lift/explode from the body. The hand position remains relatively high. This is mainly for speed advantage. If you go down and people counter aggressively you're in trouble...

I rewatched this another time. One thing you might want to notice is that your partner's push is not that consistent in terms of spin and trajectory. A lot of those you looped out had very little underspin. But tbh real life service receives also have a lot of variety. If they dig into the ball...

Imo it is situational, you need larger body rotation against slower balls and smaller against faster balls. But imo even the 'small body rotation' opening stroke is quite full on which is not a bad thing at all, but maybe having an abbreviated swing would add more gears to your game and would...

You can even twiddle beneath the table so that the opponent has 0 idea which mode they would be facing....

If you cant beat them join them! Lol

Imo it is a bit of a cat and mouse game. She kinda lures the opponent to serve fast long with her initial stance but because she steps back she is actually ready for it. Right foot back is better against long serves and FH pivot, right foot in front is better for short serve return. She also...