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It's good to take a step back and see TT for what it is, a fun hobby, and the competition is just that - as long as you play your shots and have fun that should be enough. On the technical side, I feel like the tentativeness (esp on BH side) has some reasons. In training it looks good because...

Yeah, tbh this video is close - you just need to extend the backswing until the bat points towards the stomach to make it more of a chiquita movement (also makes it even easier to contact the right side of the ball).

Yes some things are highly individual... but we can always learn from some general principles.

Basically, from my own understanding, bend forward at the hip (not knees!) until your eye level is super low (almost net level). This is the ideal preparation position to loopkill backspin. Also on the pivot (which I almost never used much until recently), I realized I have been doing it wrong...

It is easier to do it against nonunderspin serves for sure, but you can still do it against backspin or sidebackspin by opening the racket angle.

So the first few chiquitas (notice they are all done against reverse pendulum type sidespin) have opposite sidespin on them. As compared to something like 1:13 or 1:49 which has the normal chiquita sidespin on it.

Backswing position is the same as chiquita (upper body leaning forward and rotated, racket tip pointed towards your stomach) . I also know how to do strawberry flicks, but this is different because in the strawberry flick the elbow is going up during the stroke but for chiquita the elbow goes...

So I have been toying with this concept for a while, and I have seen some pros use it (LYJ, FZD, LGY, etc...), but I seldom see any discussion about it. So basically the concept is for a right hander, the BH chiquita flick will always produce clockwise sidespin. However, in certain situations...

Nah, for inverted you never know. It mostly depends on the player, and a lot of weaknesses have to be tested during matches. Even for pips, there are a lot of different styles (even with the same setup) which all have different strengths and weaknesses.

Tbh i would definitely use BH to loop this if they pushed it to my BH and this is one of my fav shots. With BH I just contact the back of the ball slightly on the left to go with the spin (ie spin it clockwise) with an open angle (to counteract the backspin) and I can then loop down the line or...

I tried vega series on a clubmate's bat today too and was super unimpressed by the topspin capabilities, I am not sure why so many ppl are loving it. The ball leaves the rubber way too fast and the topspin arc generation is weak and insecure compared to top rubbers like dignics and hurricane.

My default way of FH opening loops which works very well against reverse pendulum as well as serves without sidespin (and receives which produce the same spin combination) is initiated by the middle finger and brushing the ball around the 'outside' which is basically a hook loop. This pretty...

Finally practiced some TT today. Finally got to practice a bit of looping the BH fast push of my heaviest hook sideunder serve with FH which I always had massive problems with. Luckily i was practising with a guy who put massive spin in those BH pushes, so I could test out various loop methods I...

The other BH rubber which is really underrated is H3 37. I used it on a friend's blade and the spin output was insane, and it also had lots of gears.

09c pairs really well with Long 5, it was one of most enjoyable setups to play before my Long 5 got stolen in a club :( It was a real spin monster which can churn out heavy af spin easily.

Tbh although Xiang Peng won, i felt that there had been no improvement in his BH. Not exactly sure why given the vast knowledge in the CNT he cant upgrade his BH just like what Ma Long did. Otherwise, it is looking like Lin Shidong is the future indeed. Unfortunate indeed.

Tbh i think this is where the limitations of robot training start to come in - i think it is quite important to mentally link the stroke to the incoming racket movement + ball trajectory. Robots dont provide that.

No idea. Truls complained about his serves and got a yellow card for complaining! Imo if he didnt have his serves he would be solidly behind Ma Long in the Paris Olympics race. On the other hand, FZD is almost too clean that he enjoys no advantage from his serves at all...

Typically, most significant long term improvements I made are structural in nature, and I know precisely what I have changed. A lot of training (esp if not targeted) I would say is just training the feeling in the hand, and cannot be totally relied on for long term improvements. Dont rely on...

Tbh im guessing here, but for me a very important cue is to keep the elbow close to the hips/waist during backswing and not to move it at all (regardless of straight or bent arm). This ensures that the body leads the arm swing and not vice versa, so that the powerful larger muscle group such as...