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If you could post some video of yourself doing backhands, we could give you meaningful advice.

"Krooklyn" ;)

A personal favorite.

Don't you just love Poe's Law and what it accomplishes?

I don't think that body motion on the serve is going to do much. It'll do you better to learn good mechanics first.

@iamme Assault weapon? I've only ever seen anti-gun politicians throw that term around when referring to rifles. It's a first from an LEO. Unless you mean one of these babies: THAT's an assault weapon! An assault gun, to be specific.

I remember that fellow. You'd shown a video before. I had that same kind of attitude, but I've taken it a habit to do a proper warmup and the like, so I figured why not change as well. It's easier to focus on the game when your pants aren't sticking to your ass. :rolleyes:

@Shuki It's cool as shit, but it ain't so cool between your legs after a few sets...

I'm not good enough to give you advice that'd help you, but I can tell you that it's a good thing you posted video in the same post as when you asked questions. I can however advise you in a non-game related, but still game related thing: Get a t-shirt and some more flexible pants! I used to...

People have different arm lengths, so I don't think it's such a big deal if the stroke finishes a little bit across. Forcing it to finish dead center could not be ideal.

My shoulder moves forward and up some naturally if I'm loose. Isn't it basically required for a safe follow-through? At least, my elbow doesn't feel too good swinging hard and trying to stop against the inertia.

I wasn't doing that exactly, but I had this "idea" of rotation of the arm that was similar, and I think you can guess the rest. I think if people know what they are doing exactly, well, they know what they are doing exactly.

It doesn't put a lot of stress on the shoulder if done properly. I have firsthand experience with improper technique, and you can end up doing some strange things with your arm and back if you don't know what you're doing. I wouldn't advise anyone to try to actively perform those kinds of...

Seeing as I injured myself due to this kind of motion, I've largely went towards a very straight forearm snap. No arm or shoulder injuries or even soreness since. I'd listen to @Der_Echte

@fais Huh? It's off the table and half-long, so with enough racket head speed and coming a bit from the side... Of course, it's not a LEGAL serve, so it's pretty terrible. This video might help the OP.

Yeah, we gotta take this into account. I'm not sure what the content guidelines say about private videos either. I've found it a bit weird how people can record matches from a TV-feed or stream, then sell them. How does that even work if it's not even their footage?

Of course I do need to mention that I am no economical expert: sometimes company level decisions are hard to understand for the consumer and might seem wrong, but you can't always do the ideal solution. I'm not a YouTube content creator either, so I don't really know how it is. I do think ITTF...

@EmRatThich Yeah, you seem to be right. I'm not sure we should be surprised to hear ITTF is making decisions that only take their own benefit into account. ITTF is, after all, a profit organization: not a table tennis organization.

You pick up a few terms here and there over the years. ;)