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Spin and more spin.
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Spin and more spin.
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Carl,
You are too kind! I had no control and it was all over!!
I don't know if they even count as 7 ... will see if i can try some more tonight just for the fun of it.
Thank you Carl (and Shuki and NL)!
OldSchool, perhaps you don't understand the point I made. LP are made not to grip the ball. Specifically NOT TO GRIP THE BALL. That drill can only be done with a rubber that GRIPS the ball WELL. Otherwise you cannot have the racket facing at an angle that forces the topsheet to grab the ball hard.
On an LP rubber, with the racket angled for the drill, the ball SHOULD SLIP OFF the rubber. For the racket to be the proper angle for the ball to go UP, on the LP side, the blade face should be parallel to the ground WHICH IS NOT THE DRILL.
So, again, YOU CANNOT DO THIS DRILL with a rubber that does not grab the ball. With the proper rubber, you also need good touch.
You are not having trouble with the grippy side. Only be LP where the ball goes out to the side, because the racket is angled.
In other words, use a racket with smooth rubbers on both sides or don't bother trying the drill. Physics says it should not be done with your LP racket.
Watch and see if you can understand.
A rubber that does not grab the ball and create its own spin cannot do the drill. The LP does not change the spin. So after the fail on the LP side, the spin is the wrong spin for the smooth side too. Which basically equals a double whammy.
This is exactly why players who don't understand LP lose to LP. They push with the LP vs smooth player's backspin push and smooth player tries to push vs the LP's topspin push as though it was backspin.
Sent from the Subterranean Workshop by Telepathy
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