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Glad to see someone on the forum actually thinking about advanced TT. I posted about this some time back. It is super easy to get jammed if you serve reverse pendulum and try to pivot on 3rd ball. The opponent goes against the spin with the BH receive and the sidespin is curving to your BH which...

Weird conspiracy theory but they were not in control of Manika Batra vs Wang Manyu which was the deciding factor at the end.

I can see it, but this is a weird agenda on a TTD post lol

I actually drilled this a lot. So the key here is if you do any crossover step and rotate mid air, you must land on your left foot, not the right. So you essentially push off right foot and land with left foot with body facing slightly left (post rotation) regardless of the circumstances. If you...

I find that with Vis if you do the hit then brush thing with the wrist all the balls are going out of the table - it is really fast af. I find that I have to divide the work very clearly. Arm is for brushing - body to generate the impact force. I look at some of the fast blade players and they...

This is why I think Dignics is just easier to play and less physically taxing. It makes the game more fun for me lol

Exactly. To me, amateur ratings are kinda useless sometimes and being obsessed with it is a great way to lose the joy of playing the game. At least over here down under ppl are less insufferable about ratings thankfully.

yep just play with LP OX or antispin and watch everyone suffer as they play you...

Nice... but this proves that the ratings cannot really be trusted well - i've seen some way better players posted who are just 2000 that would completely destroy this player esp some of the juniors. But maybe i'm overestimating the 2000 level...

not just yesteryears, if you watched Wang Chuqin play it is the same style. Serve and FH loopkill the 3rd ball. Easier said than done tho!

Although those were some nice points - you could improve further by simply committing to looping all those long serves / pushes. The pushes you were doing against those obviously long balls would be complete cannon fodder for better players. If you miss the loop, simply adjust for the spin and...

watched Sun Yingsha lose against Chen Meng - it was Tokyo Olympics deja vu yet again. If Chen Meng takes a step back to give herself more time - Sun Yingsha's BH is just not powerful enough to hit the ball past her, nor is it spinny enough to pose problems to Chen Meng's defence. And then from...

not really - see Athens 2004 for e.g... you're forgetting that there's also internal battles with more players per country. Some of the players with stronger styles against foreigners might be beaten by some who are weaker, then the upsets happen. Also, it would mean that more unknown players...

the serve, short push and 3rd ball FH is a killer, much like a younger Ma Long. The rallies just need to be good enough to not be a liability. Not everyone is meant to be the king of rallies like Fan Zhendong. But that said, it is interesting that FZD worked on short game for so long and it is...

Also, by the way you describe it, all sidetop/sideunder serves are "swipe" serves lol - that is almost every serve archetype except for the heavy underspin/no spin variant!

He already moved forward (anticipating a short serve) and was no longer in position to loop. At those levels, pushing back a long ball is almost always a mistake

Beginner level BH pendulum is easy af to read because they change the racket angle between sidetopspin and sideunderspin ie open angle for under and more closed for top. The advanced BH pendulum uses a fast af racket action powered by the body rotation and weight transfer (see for eg Darko or...

You gotta call it by its proper name which is a BH pendulum serve...it is nowhere as simple as just a "swipe"! The serve here is sidespin with a little top indeed because Harimoto uses a vertical angle and chops straight down (the correct technique to push/chop against sidetopspin balls).

Felix Lebrun vs Harimoto was funny. When Harimoto served underspin or no spin, Felix put so much underspin in his long pushes and surprisingly Harimoto just couldn't lift the ball (??!!). And this forced Harimoto to serve sidetopspin, and Felix just did a very strong RPB chiquita (because he...

I can do both reverse pendulum as well as hook. Imo you can learn both. Hook serve is easier to learn but harder to master imo (there's a lot of subtleties in the fakes and the wrist movement and the contact types) - it took me a while to create very heavy spin with it and even longer to...