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No, he needs footwork. Like @Zezima said people don't serve or push long to his FH sweet spot very often. It may seem to you it doesn't take much footwork to move to the sweetspot, but he has zero footwork and can't loop anything on the FH side with anything resembling quality unless it comes...

Are those better players training or simply demonstrating the drill? Most demonstration videos go very slow to clearly show how the drill is done, it's not actually at a particularly useful pace, at least not for what you need to learn to accomplish.

Geez LYJ got destroyed, just utterly annihilated. I guess that's to be expected given what a terrible matchup he is against LSD, and how incredibly he performed the last time they met yet still lost 4-1.

Both were on their game, some great rallies! Let's see if LJK can maintain his recent form and take down WCQ again. Women's side is gonna be great as well. WMY dispatched KM fairly easily. I did expect her to do better this time around as she had just switched to the FZD ALC last time and...

In that case, you're not really capable of doing a really useful Falkenberg drill then. You're looping way too slow if you have time to move before the shot even lands on the other side, so I'd stop doing that drill. Also, as others have pointed out, your issue is not the rubber. You're not...

Well, not anymore, but would've been great to watch!

Yeah sucks, looks like Harimoto was mounting a great comeback too!

Pre-move means moving toward the position before the ball is launched, if a drill from a robot is set fast enough then it'll launch the ball as soon as you finish with your last stroke, so there'd be zero time for pre-moving. This forces you to recover as quickly as possible and make the most...

Yes, I mean in drills. Footwork isn't just moving your feet, it's knowing when to move your feet and how to most efficiently move them. A slow Falkenberg is not very useful for that reason. Footwork drills need to stress your footwork, it needs be such that you can barely get your feet set in...

Also, KM continues to surprise, this time taking down WYD convincingly. Having beaten WMY and WYD the last couple of tournaments means she's now overtaken QTY as the one to take the spot vacated by CM.

What a battle between HYZ and LYJ! LYJ's experience won out in the end, with HYZ making a couple of relatively simple (for pros) mistakes near the end. LYJ vs. WCQ is gonna be a great one to watch tomorrow, and HYZ can hold his head up high as he appears to be cementing his position next to...

Falkenberg needs to be fast enough that you never wait for the ball to be truly useful. Otherwise you'll be dealing with the same pre-move issue. Robots can be helpful for certain things, I sometimes set it up even when my training partner comes over. The rapid FH/BH shot to a single spot is one...

You'd be surprised how much you can improve even knowing where the ball is going. The issue most people have when they know where the ball is going is that they pre-move to that spot. Pay attention to that, eliminate that either by forcing your self not to move (but be ready to move) until your...

Right now you need to focus on opening up first so you don't need to counter in the first place. There's nothing wrong with your counter for your level, the issue is you should try to avoid getting into that situation in the first place. For quality I mean more of everything. You might have...

It's not a matter of laziness, so not a willingness or effort to move, but a matter of training. Is footwork a part of your training? There are ways to train footwork even without a great training partner. Multiball would obviously be the easiest, but say your partner can only block the ball...

Hmm I think the W968 is a bit faster, I think for speed differences it won't make a big difference for your game. I must've misremebered re: boosting then, I've found the D09c QC to be fairly good, they've been pretty consistent for me. As for the pairing, sometimes on medium powered shots the...

Liang better not come near my girl Tong Tong!

How did CYY and Kao make it out of their groups? CYY was in a 3-way tie and won 1 less set than Quek as well as the head-to-head against him (Thakkar won the least sets so he should be out). Kao was also in a 3-way tie and won the same number of sets as Gerassimenko but lost the head-to-head...

A couple things: 1) Yes, I watched the whole match, and I saw those attempts to attack his serves with your BH. My question is, why the BH? And why over the table? They're almost all services you should loop with your FH, with much more power. Over the table BH loop is one of the most...

Once he topspins you basically already lost. He's serving you a lot of attackable balls and you either just soft push it or loop it with the weakest spin. Punish those serves, attack them with a harder loop when they go long or a faster push when they're short. If you attack with a push, be...