I've seen many times the YG serve tutorials from Hamakawa but unable to put it in practice
its a pity because wow, his opponent, who's not a noob, he can't handle it at all...
Gucchy's level seem to have dropped a lot. I wasn't impressed by his performance. I never liked his technique, he looks a bit awkward
And Kojima he's won without hitting a single fast drive... lol
when do i switch to long pips ?
Gucchy is probably the weakest among his team, he has quite a few technique issues... the funny thing is that there were others in the team who coached him and he never fixed them anyway.
Hamakawa's reverse pendulum looks nasty af. Even if you know exactly what spin is on it, you don't know how much and are you able to control this amount of spin?!
However, from the video his serve movement is not that deceptive in terms of concealing the sideunder to sidetop difference, both versions look too different to each other imo.
I feel like the Koreans play a little too standard and they didn't put a lot of thought into incorporating special weapons, which is why they lost. Imo Kojima probably eats these standard players for breakfast.
The way he lost was due to his BH opening loop, he just couldn't go down the line with it. If you can't do that then the LP player is just there waiting to handle your loop with all sorts of disgusting strokes. Also if he pushes, it's the easiest ball to attack for LP so he was in deep trouble. He didn't lunge forward to do aggressive pushes to put the LP player in time and positioning trouble. Also that BH opening loop had no spin variation in it, it was not to his advantage to open so spinny but yet he did time and time again...
In China, Fang Bo revealed that quite a few on the CNT 2nd team couldn't beat Zhou Xintong (LP + SP penholder). Kinda crazy to think about it.