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Im toying with the idea of using a rear crossover back (right leg going past left leg) to get back to the middle after the crossover to a very wide FH. This seems to help cheat a bit by increasing the distance travelled while keeping the no of steps the same.

Regardless of cross step or normal footwork without crossing the legs you end with your weight solidly on the left foot after the FH loop. Then, you immediately push with your right foot to power your chasse step back to the middle so you dont get stuck in the FH corner, and then you can do...

Yep this is the basics of structural engineering - this is also how reinforced concrete works - the steel rebars are at the ends to resist the tension side because concrete is only strong in compression. Bending results in tension on one side and compression on the other. The further away from...

Damn, sounds like maybe I should stick with D05 on my BH....

You generate spin in the ball by how fast you rotate the bat. The faster you rotate it the more spin you get. So the more mechanisms/muscles that you engage to rotate it the better. Choking the grip makes your fingers less relaxed before the contact so it reduces the capacity of the fingers to...

You got the right idea of using your fingers as lever arms to power the BH. However you can use this concept without choking the grip which is usually not a good idea. Even on FH you can benefit from this concept of using the fingers. So my way for BH is: thumb pressing slightly on the right...

Played yesterday again as I wanted to apply some new things into my game. So i tested out trying to loopkill 3rd ball pushes with BH and it was a collosal failure in terms of success rates. I still like the supination focused slow opening loop with a lot of spin (or not depending on my...

I thought lunging on the right leg is basically the correct way to move to the FH to prepare for the FH loop in table tennis too. I use it all the time. Even cutting off large angle counters on the BH side i will lunge with the left leg. Yeah i also learnt to use the thumb on the diagonal...

Maybe Zyre is the Schroedinger's rubber. It is both the perfect and the worst, all at the same time. An application of quantum mechanics in rubber production.

Yes I agree, a lot of the table tennis concepts apply very well to the net shots in badminton. I think the lifts are basically just TT topspin stroke, the drop is a TT chop, and the net play is just a short push lol. Funny thing is that the shuttlecock is also spinning just like TT when you...

Like what you said it is about technique - I can short push sidetopspin balls with D05 and Viscaria in practice situations, but in match situations it will still be a liability because at least at equal level you wont have a 100% read of the incoming spin. If i had a 100% read then the other...

I basically play more badminton these days and not so much table tennis, but my time in badminton has dramatically improved my table tennis footwork. Badminton really forces you to learn the correct way to move, otherwise you won't even come close to the shuttle since the court is so big. In TT...

From what I can tell from descriptions on here Zyre seems to be more of a BH rubber than a FH rubber.... With FH I dont see it being anywhere close to 09c or boosted Hurricane because of the worse short game control and spin and the bad dwell (opening loops for FH is especially important)...

Yeah i dont think he serves over the table, the bigger issue is the ball disappearing behind his head on the way down which obscures a lot of information from the receiver, and is against the rules (ball must be visible the entire way from toss to contact). But anyway, everyone serves like that...

With higher level servers you have no idea of knowing. So you need to react faster. I know some people guess but that is not my preferred way and if you guess too much and get unlucky you will lose really badly. 1) bend forward until your eyes are literally around net height like a cat ready to...

Harimoto finally started using the reverse pendulum serve!

I get lots of unsolicited advice, and I learnt from some of them so I don't mind it. But I dont give it out unless we're just discussing stuff in a friendly way....

Yep it was useless to slow loop it to the elbow, those were the easiest for Faraji to pivot loopkill off. Just slow loop to wide BH to force the BH block/counter and then keep hammering that BH. If there is any pivot action just switch it down the line. It's as if LSD forgot how to play FH...

But basically, this match (and the previous one) just shows how powerful the hook serve is lol - it is literally the meta in table tennis.

Can't really handle the extremely spinny hook serve that Faraji has even if it is going long. If he loops slow it would be counterlooped bad. Faraji just needed to serve long, wait for the slow open up, then crunch the counterloopkill. If LSD did anything else it would also be long and he can...