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At this point I'll be happy if I can even find time to play once per week..... and get some juicy FH loop whole table going. After doing some badminton I reckon my footwork improved a bit lol.

I know exactly this situation. When you loop you need to close angle a bit (but not too much) and when you followthrough you can think a bit about wiping it sideways at the back of the ball. Hitting through the ball is a nono if you already have a bouncy af setup and the incoming ball is loaded...

D09c basically becomes a shitty D05 in like 4mths. I was sick of it and thought - might as well just go for D05 from the get go.

Dude if you don't feel like playing just don't play lol. Go home, sleep and watch some dramas and listen to music.

Blade angle methods for disguising spin is basically primary school level servers, and are just easy af to decipher unless they hide which is just cheating lol. It is entirely possible to serve heavy backspin with a near perpendicular angle if the brushing direction is downwards, and it is...

It is a good start, but as many ppl said here, the challenge is to adapt the stroke against all types of incoming balls (with variations in pace, spin, placement). As Bruce Lee says "boards don't hit back". In TT you are facing real opponents who will respond to your shots and make you...

Over here badminton is the shit lol. Everyone is playing it, lots of young players too. I play once a week these days too and am improving fast, watching lots of quality youtube tutorials on how to improve my strokes and footwork. I share your thoughts about TT too. Too many annoying ppl in TT tbh.

Yeah, for eg Miwa has been using it super successfully (serving both hook and pendulum from the same service preparation movement). But Tomo doesn't play with a lot of imagination or variation for some reason. He is just obsessed about being a blocking and topspin countering machine at this...

I have a secret to read it which I posted here in the past but not gonna tell lol, coz my hook serves win me a disgusting amount of points. I will say that contact point is not the main thing to see in advanced hook serves. I use the exact same contact point and blade angle for sideunder and...

Samsonov had a similar movement on his FH pendulum too. It is not just heavy underspin/no spin, he also does sideunder/sidetop with this too. Tbh from his start position, he could easily incorporate a tomahawk or hook serve movement. But he doesn't do that and imo it is a huge thing missing...

Idk he was just pushing long to Pucar's BH and getting destroyed by that BH down the line lol. Not sure why he just likes BH pushing long and then blocking whole table.... it is a losing tactic for sure.

I would also focus hard and beat him 11-0 too (and have actually done that lol). No mercy for ppl like these.

Anyway imo fundamental practice is only useful up to the point where you can move and loop well, after that 90% of table tennis is just the cat and mouse serve and receive game lol. If your serves cause the receiver to make easy mistakes and pop ups, and you are able to decipher and loop all...

Can't play the modern game with premade bats unless you just plan to be a pushblocker. That said, it doesn't need to be too expensive - if you see the video, the $100 racket actually fared really well. But personally I like my expensive setup and am not gonna change it hahah.

For BH elbow positioning, I find that using the lats to pull the elbow clockwise (similar to say doing a pullup) is the best power amplifier there is. The tell is that on a full power BH topspin they will have the elbow pointing to the right or even front during the backswing, and then by the...

Aren't this videos like few yrs old now and completely irrelevant? Thought you changed the stroke a lot by now....

Biggest difference is in the hips. He tucks the left hip inwards during the backswing and you don't. This allows him to use an explosive hip rotation for power. You can see physically his upper body is turning such that the left hip is behind the right hip

Learn the chiquita - these balls are super easily killed by someone with modern chiquita technique. With FH it is a lot harder and more technical if you wanna flick kill or loop kill it.

I actually really hate playing against quality BH servers, even though I use a lot of the same patterns with my hook serve very successfully. It is always that annoying cat and mouse game between short FH and fast long deep to BH or elbow. If I focus too much on fast long serves then my short FH...

Yes, but then the bump will also fail if you misread the topspin and it turns out to have underspin, or have more topspin than predicted. Basically, my point is that active strokes like looping are actually less dangerous than they seem, especially against ambiguous spin. If you take it late you...