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Spin and more spin.
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Spin and more spin.
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I guess, one more related issue with a faster composite blade, and high end tensor rubbers. When all that other stuff is going on, if you do not have good technique it will cause you to cut down your stroke and make it smaller, perhaps even cause you not to follow through fully because you are trying to get the ball on the table. So, it can give you bad habits. And because the ball is going more than fast enough with this fast racket and the incomplete stroke, you are less likely to learn how to add your full body, your legs, your hips and the weight transfer into the ball on your stroke. So, until those things are built into your stroke, a faster composite blade could really cause your stroke to not develop how it should.
Really, this is all in the first post. But the touch and feel on the ball is one part of things. The ability to brush at different depths rather than purely driving the ball is another element to good technique which is of course related. The stroke and follow through, the bat speed and acceleration are another issue. And getting the body mechanics of timing the legs, hips and weight transfer are another element. A fast composite blade would make all of these elements much harder to learn, develop and get into your muscle memory and body mechanics. A player who already really has those ingrained in muscle memory will be able to use a faster composite blade. But a player whose technique is not that of an elite player, will only harm his development of those techniques by using something hard, fast and unforgiving.
Really, this is all in the first post. But the touch and feel on the ball is one part of things. The ability to brush at different depths rather than purely driving the ball is another element to good technique which is of course related. The stroke and follow through, the bat speed and acceleration are another issue. And getting the body mechanics of timing the legs, hips and weight transfer are another element. A fast composite blade would make all of these elements much harder to learn, develop and get into your muscle memory and body mechanics. A player who already really has those ingrained in muscle memory will be able to use a faster composite blade. But a player whose technique is not that of an elite player, will only harm his development of those techniques by using something hard, fast and unforgiving.