Any advice on setup??

[beano]

@ beano

you don't want spin on a smash anyway, no worries. often when you change rubbers and adjust to it your stroke will get a little messed up without you knowing. Try recording yourself and watching it back to see if what you think you're doing on your strokes is what you're actually doing.

Yes of course, my flat smash has more speed but my opening loop is lacking grab and dip so I am losing confidence in that shot to set up the smash and going for the smash earlier than I should.

I will try videoing myself, thanks

 

[beano]

That, in a nutshell, is what I don't love, for me, about anything less than MAX. But, if your technique gets more precise and you start feeling how to get the ball to sink in just the right amount, you can still get back most of that spin with the M2 2.0.

With harder rubbers, to get the full potential of spin, your contact has to be more precise. With 2.0 your contact also has to be more precise for spin. So, at first, this is a double whammy. But if you really get the touch with the harder rubber, you ultimately should be able to get all that spin and more because of the faster rebound. And if you can adjust to the depth of contact for 2.0 you should be able to get most of the spin back.

But for me, I'm sticking to MAX.


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Wow, cant believe it makes that mush difference but what you says seems true, my opening backhand loop is now, to me more effective than the forehand as I still have the M3 MAX on the backhand.

When you said something about impact before Carl as you used to play baseball, could that be the same as I used to play a lot of golf, I don't know.

I had just got comfortable with my style with the M3's and now I don't feel happy with this change.

 

[beano]

@Cornel

Yes they are very experienced and used to play at a National level, I did give them a go with my blade rubber setups and they suggested to stick with my blade and said the M2 was a quick rubber but during training it really didn't effect things, actually come to think of it last few sessions I have been finishing with backhand loops, not forehand, mmmm....

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

When you said something about impact before Carl as you used to play baseball, could that be the same as I used to play a lot of golf, I don't know.

It sure could. The truth is, there isn't much that is like the tangential (brush) contact of a brush loop.

I tell you what. Watch the fist exercise in this video:

See if you can do it. Then see if you can get someone to film about one minute of you doing it. I want to see something about your contact.


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