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There are a lot of ideas to this - this naturally does a BH fade topspin to the ball without using the body to adjust which can be very devastating for the opponent who suddenly needs to deal with a super wide angle fast topspin shot to their wide FH just like Harimoto's fav shot. This would...

With this new grip, you can simply return to the standard shakehand grip by pressing on the index finger to straighten it (which also rotates the blade clockwise). Since the fingertip position is exactly the same between the traditional shakehand grip, the switch can be super fast between...

This is not a Seemiler grip which has more limitations with conventional BH shots, and also has the issue where you can't get back to the conventional shakehand grip afterwards. The seemiler grip has the index finger tip on the sides of the blade or even on the other side (ie instead of index...

After some experimentation at home, I found a pretty good way to get the blade angle for this "UFO" shot without adjusting the grip too drastically. So what I did was to curl the index finger while maintaining the tip of the index finger at its original position (this is important otherwise you...

Theorycrafting on the BH topspin with the FH inverted side (the "UFO" stroke), i just did some shadow strokes and it seems like it would be amazing for fade topspins since it naturally contacts the right side of the ball as opposed to the conventional BH topspin which is much easier to contact...

Not sure why Sabine did so little chopblocks and BH anti play - she was just FH pivoting all the time and getting punished bad due to it. Not too experienced with glanti but is it not possible to do pretty off the bounce powerful topspins off backspin balls with glanti? I found it pretty easy to...

Please ask more about the "UFO" shot! I believe if combination players have access to this shot it would be a real gamechanger since we can now produce all varieties of balls from the BH side, even full on countertopspins.

Ti Long for sure. A lot of the others dont teach mechanics as well as he does, sorry.

Against nospin short serves: For double inverted players, strongest receive is to just chiquita it, you can select whatever placement you want and aim it to the most difficult places for your opponent. You can do either spinny or powerful chiquitas. Second strongest receive is to FH pushflick...

If she can transition so fast, I suspect the grip changes are not that crazy, and this would be super advantageous in actual matchplay.

Need some instructions here too, am very interested in this!

Lol why not just join the gang.

from my experience contacting at rear does reduce the spin somewhat but it will still have at least moderate backspin on it if the racket speed is similarly high, it's not gonna be no spin. If you push it assuming it has heavy backspin it will pop up a bit but it's not gonna be an easy kill...

Then it is quite unfortunate... sometimes to win you cant be so nice.

If you play with good technique you can use anything really. 09c is probably easier to transition from hurricane, but 05 is possible too. Beware of the effect on the serve and receive game though, this is where I think the biggest differences lie.

He was always kinda second after Lin Shidong. He has a really good FH attack, a bit reminiscent of Ma Long especially with the great FH flicks and loop placement and the disciplined/compact strokes with both spin and power. His BH is definitely not up to LSD standard (when LSD BH is on he is...

Even without twiddling, just using LP/anti one can do rather strong attacks especially against pushes. The stronger the incoming backspin the stronger the anti 'loop' attack can be. But obviously this will be a topspin attack which can still be blocked or countered by the inverted opponent to...

Yes that is correct. It pays off to be 'special' in table tennis. Furthermore, different pips strokes achieve different spin reversal (even generation), and the way that it is interacting with the inverted side is also different. If you have special weapons then it is hard for other ppl to get...

Yep. I actually have a solution for Harimoto - develop his own hidden serve variation by simply leaving his free arm out to hide the contact when he plays against a serve cheater like WCQ. If WCQ complains then Harimoto can make a counter complaint. Since the referees are all blind, might as...

I agree, unlike Luka, Sabine actually has the proper FH technique and movement to finish off weak balls. Whereas Luka basically has no finishing power on his FH. I think Sabine actually hits even harder than Luka even as a woman. But the other problem is that a lot of women players are quite...