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Yeah it looks massively better now and what you're working on is definitely working well. I think one of the lowest hanging fruit is to learn the hook/tomahawk serve as well as pure heavy underspin/no spin. The hook sidetopspin and no spin to the short FH is extremely hard to receive for most...

What about these 2 basement players?

Damn that BH is looking mighty deadly now! This is like night and day compared with what you showed a few yrs back...

Miwa is just technically better than Hayata - more solid compact strokes (much less wild compared to Hayata), better spin, better footwork. Not surprising that she will eventually figure out Hayata's tricks and overcome her. The way Miwa is playing now, I think Timo Boll will lose to her now...

I have been playing a lot of badminton and also improving a lot recently - the scene is a lot more fun than the TT scene which is just filled with antisocial ppl lol. Tbh maybe I need to change my TT club, the current one just doesn't have a lot of good players to practice with - there are maybe...

You won't be able to judge between sideunderspin and sidetopspin with this. It will have an effect to destroy those who rely on heavy backspin/no spin serves, which are most of the 3rd ball attackers such as Hugo. Penholders also love this serve and will suffer even more.

Yes he is going a bit against the spin in the video demonstration. Also it is clear that he is not playing against players of his own level. Against weaker players you can do anything and it will still work. If he was facing WTT level players nearer his own level who are serving quality fast...

I know the issue now, you need to approach it a bit like curving the ball around the net, ie you actually have to aim the loop more towards the left otherwise it is gonna go out on the right side. The hard part is making enough room with the legs and body to get a good striking position, when...

I meant against sidespin balls... btw looping against backspin is going with the spin not against it. Your opponent's backspin is in the same direction as your topspin.

The general rule of going against the spin is not correct for looping and is the reason why I struggled to loop long super spinny sidespin serves for a long time. Now that I learnt how to go with the spin it is just trivial to loop them no matter how spinny the serve is.

Don't lift your elbow up, elbow should be in neutral position for looping. You cannot use a chiquita movement for fast long serves. Really the going with the spin is the feeling of contact. Against fast long pendulum I am only using my fingers, forearm and a bit of weight transfer, not drawing a...

It is quite a funny statement because while it is true (you cant win grand slam with weak FH), no one has a weak FH among the top players. Lin Shidong's FH, while not the most powerful is very consistent, fast and spinny. Harimoto's FH used to suck but it is actually his stronger wing now...

Yeah by that definition he is definitely a cannon and nowhere even near being a machine gun.

the scary part is that he was doing unreturnable loopkills off half long serves, high quality deep spinny pushes, flicks, chiquitas which most top players would have use slow spinny loops on. It is not just about opponents misreading the serve. I thought both LSD and WCQ received his serve well...

Hugo used to struggle against Harimoto precisely because he was just being blocked down and wasn't fast enough to sustain his attack. The difference this time of course is because of short game improvements and increased accuracy from his end. With such immense quality and consistency in the 1st...

Hugo's problem is if someone manages to defend his 1st attack, or attacks first, he won't be in a good position because he has big strokes and thus much slower recovery and also poorer defence. But those big strokes are also why he is so dangerous too so it is a tough balance. Imo he is on the...

Yep, Hugo's high toss heavy pure underspin serve is no joke - it is extremely spinny and also he has a no spin variant which looks very similar. He also serves the sideunder/sidetop with the same high toss. But he was mainly serving heavy pure underspin/no spin for short serves during the World...

Yep. A lot of LSD's weaker "safe" opening loops and chiquitas just got blasted with no mercy by Hugo. Reminded me of Ryu Seung Min blasting Wang Hao's safe opening loops and chiquitas in 2004 Athens. Worse, those Hugo loopkills were outright unblockable.

The genius in the 2nd set, was that Hugo started to serve long with very high quality (deep, fast, well placed, spinny, lots of spin variation) This really threw a spanner in the LSD chiquita plan and forced him to push, which allowed Hugo to get the 1st topspin with more quality. Even when LSD...

Only if Ma Long was training systematically, then yes. But not the Ma Long these days. Fan Zhendong would also be able to do it if he was systematically training instead of being a wannabe celebrity. CNT is quite vulnerable without Ma Long and Fan Zhendong. The new gen skills just aren't that...