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You can fix that like people have suggested, but unless top ply is very hard/smooth, you will need to learn to seal the blade or this keep happening.

My recommendations are pretty much in line with @KM1976 ... Shakehand BH is good to have a softer modern dynamic control oriented 42-43 degree sponged rubber. (or older soft sponged control oriented offensive rubber) Easy to generate spin, easy to handle incoming spin with your stroke, easy to...

Hi blahness, It may appear that way on paper, but on the ground, JZ has the touch on his BH to make a real quality return consistently... he does pretty much the same thing with his FH, but he kills some or all the spin, returns it long right to your wheelhouse, and dares you to go for it...

That sounds Skillful to me. But it is the WRONG kind of skill. WHAT is the right kind of skill? The skills I have, athletic and put a lot of topspin on the ball.

As much of a real heavy FH topspin I can do... I find myself playing a lot more like Lula advocates... doing BH openings followed by BH kill or BH pressure combos. If you can do quality with a BH-BH combo, go for it. Quality is quality.

As a contrast, when I started TT in my 40s in Korea, the ex-pro chopper coach smoked me 2x weekly with footwork drills 80% of lesson... I was 185-190 back then and prolly in the best physical condition of my life. I smoked Soldiers running uphill interval workouts. I prolly now move around the...

Hi @dingyibvs my friends ended up not being so enthusiastic to go 2 hrs to bay area... I have been to the Pleasanton TT club a few times. You can often find players your level or better there and some people like to play doubles. There are a few places in that place where you cannot do a high...

I think Lula made a great point about a player should discover how he plays vs his opponents well... and stick to playing what is effective without worrying about trying to be Ma Long if other ways are working well for you.

Hi @Fnub , For your BH... You always seem to be trying to use your entire arm locked up and pivot it all with your shoulder joint. This is making it 10,000% more difficult to hit a quality BH. You should get elbow in front, stabilize your elbow and upper arm, then use the lower arm to make...

Hi @Fnub , Here are some things I see with you FH... Take a look on game two... when you serve, you are big time in the FH side of table already... and when ball comes back, there is not much table left for opponent to land it for your FH... when you serve closer to BH corner, you tend to step...

Arguably our metro area (Sacramento) best player plays this style (JZ of Folsom TT) he just won a pile of medals at 2023 US Open. JZ uses OX LP on BH on a shakehand bat with short pips FH. He takes the ball off the bounce with great touch and troubles many players... these players rarely make...

In the same vid, Haruka says that you can get your wrist and arm very tired very quickly trying to flip like the pros. Why? The pros really cock that wrist full back and explode with wrist. This takes a lot of trained muscle on arm, wrist, and tricep - many amateurs will tire out pretty quickly...

Hakura has these faster straight and hybrid flips too, where there is more conventional use of the arm and wrist to power the shot with the elbow in front set leverage. It was this vid i posted in your thread where she discusses how to be safe with BH banana flip using the fingers... it is very...

Hakura sets her leverage with a step in and elbow in front... she is talking about a very safe banana flip. Point tip of bat down, step in, get elbow in front, allow ball to drop, then squeeze away. can be done with only a squeeze for slower and safe one, can involve more to get more spin and a...

Maybe try holding it so elbow is at side of belly with a few inches of space. You simply just need to get better at discerning impact. The better you get ar reading what happened at impact, judge where ball is going when with what speed, spina and vector... and in the first one foot after...

very good amateur player Haruka, who is a Japanese player in Korea and speaks great Korean... she advocates using fingers to squeeze the bat before impact and actually make a flip simply by squeezing the bat... and later add some wrist and lower arm. She articulates very well and shows both bad...

Prety much i would agree with what gordon is saying about theory in general. I feel these concepts are pretty sound. I do not however prefer tacky rubber at all, but that is me and no TT player is required to play like Der_Echte... I would prefer it that way anyway, with the new ball more and...

I frequently advocate the first starting point to FH counter topspin balls is to SHORTEN the SWING and LOOSEN the HAND. (and go for less power) Go for maybe 30 percent power at first tops. EDIT: Do this and allow ball to come into strike zone. Just focus on that - letting ball come to strike...

There are two easy ways to go down the line (short side of table to opponent's FH line if he is a RH player and you are too) with power and not sacrifice consistency. (that does not involve crazy and dangerous contortion of wrist or shoulder) (that does not involve taking a step to change...

For the price of ONE sheet of a Diginiski rubber, you could buy THREE tripods with cell phone adapter. That would make ur vids much more viewable and easier for loser commenters like me to see the action and provide more effective feedback.