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This is me doing my typical FH stroke. It is pretty standard right? For a lack of better word, textbook style. I look pretty relax with my stroke, letting the sponge do most of the work for me.
What I did not show is prior to this I was doing the same FH stroke with a fifty degree ESN rubber, the Donic Turbo series.
I was having more difficulty to get ball over, the ball drop more and is much slower. The problem is my amateurish physique is not able to activate the harder sponge to get its benefit.
Now imagine one is to use this hard stuff on the BH side where the ability to generate power is even less.
I'd Imagine one is a masochist to use it on BH ( Hard Tacky Rubber ).
I actually see a stroke that is kind of stiff and with a lot of mechanical issues. Probably the biggest of these is that the feet, particularly the right foot, seems a little glued to the spot and don't want to move and the knees don't want to bend. But also, if you look at your arm, the bend in your elbow, the angle from upper arm to lower arm, it NEVER changes throughout the whole stroke.
Now, I do think it would take a lot of work to make the stroke better. But, to me, it seems the fast equipment you are using is making it easier to get all your power from only the arm and an arm that is moving with major mechanical disadvantages as a result of the fixed elbow position.
I have money on it that if you used a slower blade and slower rubbers, for a few weeks you might feel like you were having to work harder, but then your stroke would improve much faster because you would need to use more force and your degree of efficiency, as you transfer power from feet, through legs, through hips, core roatation, torse, to the arm and racket, WOULD HAVE TO IMPROVE.
BTW: it is not an issue of strength. You are pretty strong. It is an issue of efficiency. A TT ball is small. It is light. It is not like a baseball or a tennis ball. All you need is the mechanical advantage to get that racket moving faster. At the moment your racket is moving quite slow and I think part of that is that, if your racket was moving fast, with how you currently touch the ball, the ball would fly all over the place, so your fast fast setup has caused you to slow down your stroke when you are trying to loop.
When you slap a high ball flat, you don't do that. You don't hold back. But here, you are transferring less than 30% of your power into the ball.
