Not many good coaches here, and they say my FH is fine, which is not fine :/
Ah that's a shame. In-person help is always much more useful. Any chance you can make a trip to a city with better options maybe once or twice?
I know it doesn't look obvious, but my partner isn't simply blocking, his racket is wobbling and he has a weird technique, when he fails to do his thing and simply block, the ball flies in to the sky
The ball will fly to the sky because he's hitting upward, if he is too far in his swing when he hits the ball, his racket is facing upwards already and the speed will make it shoot off. There is no significant spin in those balls, the trajectory is flat and it bounces up from the table pretty much as high as it came down.
Sure, I wasn't there, but I see no evidence of topspin in those.
My brushing was the best in my club, but i had a very little hitting power. So i tried to learn chinese hit+brush technique, but i still can't grasp every aspect of it. I'm using my finger power and rotate my wrist so the spin is decent, but not too good due to small swing direction and right arm is always too close to my body :/
I will obviously have to take your word for it as this video is really all I have to judge from. It's too bad there's no sound, that might have helped to hear if you're making full flat contact or engaging the rubber more.
I have watched it again, on my PC now instead of my phone. It still looks like you're in the "hit" stage of the "hit+brush" and the ball's trajectory is straight, not arcing. I'm not saying any of these things to make you feel bad - this is just what I can tell from the video.
It is pretty common, to go from hitting too little (as you said you can brush but want to combine it with power) to hitting too much, and now you will have to find the middle ground between these two.
With the information that you know how to make brush and friction contact, I would suggest taking things down a notch. If this video is you doing say, 80% power shots, dial back the power to 50-60%. This is not for your ability to land the ball on the table - you're doing absolutely fine there. But you want to make this ball spin and arc, so make some space for that by dialing back the power. With your landing percentage, you probably don't have to dial back for long - just until you are getting the hang of making the right contact.
Next is your feet, you're hopping to the right on most balls, and then have to return back to the left. Because of that hop, you need to pull your arm inward to stay aligned with the ball - and your point of contact is after the elbow has already snapped inward.
If this hop is part of the idea of getting power transferred, instead of moving left to right, the following might work for you (you can just do it as shadow practice, no ball or table required)
Plant your right leg, knee slightly bent. This leg is your pivot point, your hinge, your fulcrum point. It does not leave its spot, it doesn't bend or straighten (much, a little movement is always going to happen).
Keep your arm up (when you receive neutral or topspin balls, dropping down is not necessary at all) and the elbow only slightly bent.
While keeping your core and arm in the same position, bend your left knee - you will see your upper body rotates around the fulcrum point of your right leg.
Now, this is rotation, but it doesn't store and release energy. This is for coordinating the body's position for the next step.
Return back to the starting position. Now, instead of bending the left knee, keep it in place just like you're keeping the right one in place. Your left foot will anchor the lower body and will allow you to build tension, store energy, with the upper body.
With both your feet planted, make the same rotation as you just did using your knee, but only use the upper body for it. Using a bit of hip is OK, but what you want to feel is your core muscles storing energy. Hold that backswing position for a bit and really feel what it's doing - there should be some strength there just itching to be released!
Now practice releasing it. Don't use your arm. Imagine your arm is broken and in a cast - despite that you're still going to be able to both hit *and* spin the ball. Use your wrist to generate that last bit of friction right at the point of hitting the ball - your forearm will naturally follow a little bit.
When you take these ideas back to the table, it will feel stiff at first. That's fine, just take a couple of sessions to get used to how this feels, what it does to the ball, and really just keep it at 50% for a while before adding explosiveness.
I would still recommend one of those balls-on-a-stick. As simple a training tool as it seems, it gives such good and clear feedback: if the ball spins a lot, you are spinning it good and if it doesn't spin at all, you're not spinning it. If you hit it with power, you will see that, too. So you can see if you're combining spin and impact.
It's here in Budva, Montenegro. You can play for free with your own net, everyone is welcome
It looks like a great place! Just hope you don't lose the ball
