You look like you're handling it quite well tbh! Would be interesting to see you now and specifically with the clipper cr and long pips. You take the ball very early like a push blocker style. What about for the usual chop like returns? I feel like if someone gave me a decent topspin loop, long pips on my clipper would just fly...but it's just assumption
Thanks, but still I think that my play is pretty bad... Didn't have an experience with Clipper, sorry, and for last half-year I come back to playing two inverted rubbers, for now don't plan to go back to pimples, and even if I eventually go back it will be short pimples... As for chop like returns, Hadraw SK worked for me almost as good as any def blade, BUT only if talking about pimple rubber with sponge thicker than 0.7 (for me 1.0-1.2 is optimal... on a video above black rubberthat I playing is probably TSP Curl P-H or P1r with 1.0-1.2 thick sponge), is we talk about OX, then yeah, the ball will fly from Hadraw (but there might be someone who could have such a soft and good "feeling" in his hands, that he could handle the ball enen in this situation, but it's a rare talent probably, I don't have it...), actually I think that with not very bouncy sponge it's possible to chop even with more faster blade and "not so long" pimples, here are a video part of my training a year ago when I tried to chop with Innerforce ALC blade and the piples rubber that I use on this video is probably TSP Millitall II with 1.0-1.2 thick sponge (I probably didn't used to this rubber on the video though, just getting used and trying what I can do with it...):
But, of course in a real match with such a racket setup I didn't tend to play chop style of game, it was more or less like this:
P.S. OFFTOPIC: Now my play is something like this with two inverted rubbers, if you interested: