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Damn i just searched for Golden Vis pricing and that is quite a bomb ouch... Think i'll just stick with my normal vis.

I agree that Dignics or boosted H3 really makes a huge difference in performance too, there is nothing that approaches their performance and shot quality when hitting hard. I tried some other clubmates rackets and they look fine while countering, but when it comes to loopkilling and spin quality...

Yep it sounds like you are on the right track. I also like to do a lot of varied BH to BH countering with some of the older guys in my club (can be anything from flat to sidespin to topspin to even sideunderspin). I got to the point where I can stably do BH countering against almost all players...

Idk, most good defenders I played have massive FH loops which will punish weak balls hard. The pips BH is normally just to generate opportunities for the FH to finish off.

A guy with a certain hidden serve? Haha

Yeah most ppl are quite bad at receiving hook or reverse pendulum serves. For me just abusing short FH, fast long to BH/middle already gains a huge amount of easy points, it is also quite unsolvable because a lot of players dont have the correct footwork to cover these areas. Also it is not so...

Yes and also almost the same blade angle! I didnt realize it was possible to disguise reverse pendulum like this. For me the major takeaway is to scoop it upwards. This makes the spin a lot stronger for the sideunderspin serve (i suspect if forward momentum was reduced it would actually be a...

Yep and everyone blamed Ma Long for mental problems for losing 3 straight WTTC to Wang Hao when it was really his BH that let him down big time. After he completely overhauled his BH game and switched to Hurricane on BH to get better spin/control, he became the dominant GOAT.

To provide a recent example I saw, an amateur penholder 木鱼 got 2 sets off Fang Yinchi (ex CNT national player) which rocked the Chinese amateur TT world (Fang Yinchi won 4-2 in the end). Guy didnt even have much of a BH. He also won a game against Li Ping (ex mixed doubles world champion) before...

Yep exactly. Also, what is practice? We need to have a much wider definition of practice other than topspin vs block which is only 1 out of like 100 scenarios that might happen in a match. In fact in some matchups, it just doesnt happen at all! everything in TT starts with serve and serve...

Yeah but the training vids are all against simple spins and balls, not more complex irregular balls and not in the context of matchplay. Tbh, he was attacking very confidently with his FH too in the match he was supposedly nervous in (which is indeed quite good), which shows that it wasnt so...

Damn this was super eye opening and inspiring, I might go try his method of serving reverse pendulum too.

what I'm saying (and many others in this thread) is that the technique issues are the fundamental reasons behind his 'mental' issues. If anyone tried looping 10 times and they all miss inexplicably, wouldnt they be tentative and afraid too, resulting in just touching the ball?

Tbh his opponent knew how to serve hook, pendulum and the heavy underspin/no spin, and OP was completely overwhelmed by the spin variation. His opponent was clearly higher level in terms of spin understanding (though also having quite a few technical issues of his own) I didnt see any...

Yep, against better players i find that it is the variation and placement that is the killer, it is rare that just power is sufficient to win. For me i have 2 versions of my BH loop, one is a fake loop and the other is a heavy topspin loop and it is all just controlled by the fingers. Same...

Yep definitely that is probably the best place to use it because you can do a very strong shot, get out of the way and let your partner attack the next shot while you find your way back (if the point is somehow not over after 2 strong attacks lol).

It would be seriously very entertaining to see Xue Fei take on Felix Lebrun. I hope we would get to see that, imo that would have so many good rallies.

Tbh, I think trying to BH powerloop fast long serves (with varying spins and placements) is a losing proposition. So firstly, serve receive is already a bad position to be in because the server has absolute control over spin and placement and deception which already lowers landing rates a lot...

Yes, this is exactly the stroke I was talking about and LYJ uses this a lot (fade chiquita). But I'm not so ambitious to use it on short FH serves, I'm only aiming to use this against BH pendulum serves to my middle or BH to the opponent's wide FH as a variation to the normal chiquita.

There are a lot of Miu Hirano style players who focus on speed and power in the upcoming Japanese juniors (Odo, Yokoi). But I still think Miwa has the highest potential because her spin generation ability is a few levels above these junior players, while still having excellent table coverage.