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Weird. Maybe it's a cultural thing. It's not bad to practice against that kind of shot because you will indeed get a lot of those in real matches if your serve is good. I just think it can hide deficiencies. Do you have video of you looping heavy backspin?

I think if your partner pushed heavy backspin to you, you'd have an easier time finding ways to improve your technique. I feel like you can get away with a lot of things because the receive has no quality on it. Maybe that's the point of the drill, in that case I apologize.

My latest is from Global Sports Store on AE, and I've bought a few more orange sponges. I won't open them for a while but if they turn out to be lemons then if I remember I'll report about it. FWIW my Provincial is dark colored, isn't very reflective and it's almost not tacky at all. Maybe...

I like the hard plastic precut ones, like the Yinhe and XVT ones. The ones which don't crumple up after one use and which are easily washable. I don't know if it's proper or not, but the way I've always done it is to drop a bit of water on the sheet, run my fingers on it in a circle to grab the...

It might be time for the classic beginner drill where you roll the ball off the table and loop it with just the topsheet. That's really difficult to achieve by lifting the ball. It won't really be a "real" loop but it's probably step 1. All of the swing kinematics stuff is almost pointless if...

I suspect it matters who you buy from. I have never had a bad experience to now, they're all pretty consistent. I wonder if people are just buying counterfeits. Measuring the hardness and confirming that it's indeed near-exact would be a decent real-world way to confirm counterfeit vs real...

That's what I thought, which is why I went for the softer sponges, but it's not really true in practice. The ball has more spin and speed and I score more the harder the sponge. It even has more spin whenever I miss and net it, for example. I dunno why people think you need to be 2800 to...

I'd have to agree with this post's sentiment. It really depends what exactly you're doing. I'm a really unbalanced example: I have no real limit to forehand sponge hardness within the options available, and harder is better, without sacrificing serve or dig spin at all. Harder is always more...

Instead of only thinking about speed, you should also think about incorporating mass into the shot. The unit for a moment is typically Nm, or force at a distance. It's clear that making the distance longer, or increasing the force, will increase the moment. So make as large of an arc that is...

How long have you been playing, and how often do you do simple drills, like forehand to forehand cross court, or forehand against block down the line? It doesn't seem to me like you're very experienced, so you should really focus on fundamental stuff in an easy scenario. There's a lot that goes...

I've tried everything common, and to be honest, nothing. There's no tacky forehand rubber as performant as H3 in all likelihood. I did like Battle 2, Battle 3 and RXTON V though. Hopefully Arthur China is okay, but I'm yet to try it. Hated Big Dipper V, but my sponge was far too soft at 38...

Yeah, maybe 20 on a bad week. I was in my teens back then, though, and I also went to the gym 5 times a week. And to be honest, probably a minimum of 2 hours per day was serve practice, so it's not really as much as it sounds like. Still, if I did that now, I'd get injured in all kinds of ways...

You should film yourself hitting against an actual ball, even from a robot. Shadow practice is good and all but there's a lot of things you just can't correct just with shadows. You're not feeling the impact and seeing the result on the ball, so you're usually not doing what you think you are...

Throw angle is the difference between the ball's exit trajectory and the swing normal trajectory. It's related to the arc, but not really. Arc is purely a function of the velocity and spin, but the depth and height will change based on the throw angle normalized to any given swing. I think...

Not worth much due to my low level of play, but one of the more important things I've found receiving serves from good servers in the middle-upper divisions up to state level (1600-2300?), and in coaching people to receive my serves: Start your ready position further back in a more forehand...

Well, I guess I came to the same conclusion everyone else does. There's nothing like H3. I searched far and wide, high and low, cheap and expensive, tried a bunch of options from almost all of the Chinese manufacturers and some of the other ones and I've come to the conclusion that while Battle...

I'm not really a pips user so I can't really tell you anything, but compared to a typical inverted rubber, it's slower, less spinny and to be honest I didn't notice the spin sensitivity being much less. However it's better than a dead inverted sheet in terms of spin and power. I don't really...

I checked this and Butterfly is closer to Shore O. Probably +2. I'd guess some JIS version. Sorry for the misinformation! FWIW apart from online the only people I've seen talk about the mythical properties of H3 are lower-division players, I guess around 1200 - 1400 USATT. People who can...

I have a lot more problems with the blade video. He got some things right, like the thing about the bending radius and whatever, but other things just don't seem to make sense from a FEA/measurement perspective nor from a playing perspective. There's more magical thinking in that video and...

I don't know if tabletennis equipment is similar, but if car tires are anything to go by, you can completely ignore manufacturer reported data. You need empirical measurements and in-use-telemetry to gather any kind of useful information about tires. Then you probably need to build a simulation...