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It's not dying. It's rest/sleeping, waiting for the awakening.
I was wondering if RPB could be a reason for penhold style to "come back". I often read that less and less children are trained to learn penhold in China, because it usually takes more time to learn (1 or 2 years in difference to reach the same fully developed technique between shakehand and penhold players). I'm thinking that RPB could make penhold backhand easier and faster to learn for newcomers, and coaches may be more inclined to teach this style again... so as this technique became more famous and proved to be efficient at world class level mainly since Wang Hao (and now Xu Xin or Wong Chun Ting), this trend could maybe be already seen amoung young chinese player those days?
What do you think?