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Tried it out today (Thurs) at the club, the new form is already making a pretty good difference. Just 2 days ago in a practice it was really only useful in service receives, and now it's useful in games, and I didn't even have time to practice the stroke beforehand. I'm constantly amazed by...

I haven't found the boost effect relate much with play time. I've boosted (well, re-boosted) one before and didn't play with it and it wore off after a few weeks anyway. Topsheet will look bad very quickly, but actual play quality can last a good while. This does correlate with how much you...

Good point too. I've been on a similar journey as @Zezima, and I'm pretty clear about what my goal is, which is technique improvement. There are many steps between improved technique to improved match results, and if you don't work on those then the improvement in technique won't translate to...

800 may be a bit too low to practice with you, but I would think a 1200 TTR player would be able to give you some good practice. I largely agree with @NextLevel's points, but even besides that, it's no use to stress over something you can't control. Best to try to make an omelette out of a...

Perhaps the difference is in personal coaching vs. online tutorials. You can observe your students' motions, recognize that they're moving their elbows but not at the point of contact and OK it, thus they continue with the correct motion even while not executing your instructions to a tee...

I think if you practice any motion as much as Anders Lind it'll probably feel natural lol. A lot about TT is unnatural IMO. For example, if a ball flies to your right and you mean to catch it, your first reaction would be to reach out your arm/hand. In TT, you need to avoid reaching and your...

I don't think we really need to debate the elbow position any further. Anyone with eyes can see where the elbow is in one picture and where it is a moment later. You're not gonna gaslight me into thinking it's just some sort of optical illusion. The illusion in fact is the idea that it...

I largely agree with you though I think the described action of the Lats is a bit incomplete. The strongest action of the Lats on the arm is that of extension (i.e. pulling it backwards), so what it essentially does is making the forward going elbow quickly decelerate and transmit its power...

Well, if you can't accept that the elbow moves a lot after looking at those 2 stills then there's no point debating this particularly point any further. We can just leave it at that. I agree with just about all of the rest you're saying though. You can indeed improve someone's BH by...

I personally prefer that motion as well. In real matches you oftentimes just don't have enough time to have too big of a backswing. I griped in the post just above that higher level coaches not knowing how to train adult learner to learn new techniques, so let me tell you a trick that helps...

All of the power comes from the legs, it's just physics. Ultimately the delta in momentum of the struck ball is balanced by a delta in momentum elsewhere, and that elsewhere is the earth beneath which we stand and the body part that conveys that momentum is our legs/feet. That, however, does not...

The elbow joint should be relaxed, but the elbow itself often moves a lot depending on the incoming ball. See the FZD screenshots in my previous post.

Watch the FZD video again. I took 2 screenshots of his BH stroke when looping backspin, tell me the elbow doesn't move a ton? If a coach is good, you shouldn't need to "guess" what he meant. I know exactly what he means. Yes, you move the elbow forward/upward (can't do one without the...

Language is only a dangerous thing when used imprecisely. I know exactly what Vlad meant, and his (as well as others like him) imprecise description of the BH technique has led me as well as I'm sure many others astray. ZJK makes many of the same mistakes when teaching, but he did get it right...

So I've trained BH loops before, but it always felt wrong. After spending the past few months gradually improving my close to the table BH counters, I decided to try it again, this time integrating what I learned closer to the table and morphing it into a looping stroke. I figured that it was...

Over the past week I've started to do more BH practice, including starting to learn the BH loop especially a couple steps away from the table. I've found that while I usually do BH practice near the table, in game play I'm usually a bit further back so my practice is often not useful. Now I'm...

Don't forcefully pull your forearm back, just let it relax and drop back. As you start your forward swing with a relaxed elbow joint your forearm will naturally snap back behind the elbow. As for the timing of when to snap your forearm, which as you correctly identified is not done through...

Yes, I'd like to see Tong Tong as much as possible! Wonder why she got rid of the bangs?

Because it's not just one shot, we all did many, many shots. Maybe individual shots can have some variations in measurement, but over a large number of shots the experience is quite consistent.

How sure are you about that though? I certainly have a waaaaay easier time blocking 110s level loops than 120's, and that's in a practice setting so placement doesn't come into play. I mean, obviously placement is very important too, but I wouldn't underestimate the difference of say 10% in...