Both videos are wonderful to spectate.
In some of the threads I've seen someone mentioning exact thing I love about Chinese style - it's like watching martial arts.
It requires a lot of physical training and feeling of the body, connection between the first step (which is pushing the leg into the ground) and the last step (which is pressure on the tip of your index finger and wrist movement, if we're talking about FH) and of course the reset/relaxation phase, outstanding footwork etc.
When I watch european TT it's rare that I see this kind of explosiveness and 'oneness' of the body movements. It's mostly about feeling of the ball and equipment doing the job for the players. I am not saying that they're playing bad, but it just doesn't look right to me.
This is why I am always amazed how relaxed and fluid Ma Long's or other Chinese top player moves are.
Sometimes I myself can execute this kind of powerloop. It's probably 1 out of 10 shots or even less, but when I hit it right it just feels so, so, so good.
Have a look at this one. Marvellous Chinese table tennis players...the defender guy has so much skill, he even turns his racket at plays powerful bakchand with his H3 side sometimes 🤯
0:32, the umpire of the next table requested time out, and all other players were watching the show.
The vid you've seen was probably one where I play with Yinhe Pro-01 and it was actually H3 Provincial 40 degrees orange sponge version, there's plenty of power in it. Yeah I can hit through it with 2 layers of booster, but speed limit I think is not what one should be thinking when playing table tennis. It's mostly placement that wins you gamesI've seen you looping in some videos, very good technique, if I can judge. I was meaning to ask, it's a bit off topic. You mentioned you use hardness H39, but you utilize your body and can hit hard (transfer). Don't you have the feeling that with H39 your energy is rel. often not transferred to the spin, because you hit through? I expect you tried harder sponge, and that you settled, and that you are using exactly what you want/need to be using. Can you elaborate a bit why you are not using H40/H41?
Yup. After hundreds of hours of training (if properly coached) one will switch into hitting the ball with the hips, not arms.The whole kinetic chain matters, but we can't think about it when we play
This is very true from my own personal experience. I have played with Chinese tacky rubber on BH before as well as ESN rubber on BH ( current set up ). I will use BH as a better example because you cannot use too much momentum compared with FH as you have less space to swing your arm. Having a bouncy rubber do really help with the return. I recall when using H37 on BH, the returning ball is spinny but you really need to use force and on my amateur level it is tough and many ball tend to drop into the net especially with bad footwork ( when doing stroke it is not so noticeable, but it is very apparent when playing game ).In some of the threads I've seen someone mentioning exact thing I love about Chinese style - it's like watching martial arts.
It requires a lot of physical training and feeling of the body, connection between the first step (which is pushing the leg into the ground) and the last step (which is pressure on the tip of your index finger and wrist movement, if we're talking about FH) and of course the reset/relaxation phase, outstanding footwork etc.
When I watch european TT it's rare that I see this kind of explosiveness and 'oneness' of the body movements. It's mostly about feeling of the ball and equipment doing the job for the players. I am not saying that they're playing bad, but it just doesn't look right to me.
This is why I am always amazed how relaxed and fluid Ma Long's or other Chinese top player moves are.
Sometimes I myself can execute this kind of powerloop. It's probably 1 out of 10 shots or even less, but when I hit it right it just feels so, so, so good.
The first oneOr the second one
Just curious Bzing, what is the purpose of this poll?