Tips for tall players

Sanity....? Really?... you are going to resort to that word.

Okay.

First video is of a CHILD who looks under 13yo vs a pro ADULT player.

A child isn't going to stay at the same height btw.

Also what issues have you "fought" that I didn't have?... Oh right because you are 2000USATT and you played a lot of tournaments that gives you experience to mandate and give advice on movements and physical conditioning to younger players while you yourself have been stuck at the same level for years?

Sounds to me like the most ELITIST behavior ive ever heard.

Let me go to coaches in NYC and tell them that someone on forums told me in order to be successful as a tall player I need to move less.

Stuck at the same level for years?  LOL.

OK, I am done here.  It's becoming clearer to me that you have no clue what you are talking about and are really complaining because you think that this sport is fundamentally about athleticism, rather than seeing athleticism as one thing that makes it easier to play.

In any sport lateral movement is important and is different from body to body. Ofcourse a taller bigger player will move "differently" from a shorter player. Its common sense, but my point is they aren't going to be moving any less.

You are probably the first person I know who claims so strenuously that I have poor form, especially without asking the question of how long I have played seriously for.  When I hit with an older ex-2500 player when I was around 1300-1400 (in early 2012) and he knew I only had been playing seriously for about 8 months, he expected me to get to 2200 at some point if my health held up, saying that unfortunately, I started too late to get much better than that.  Even when I was still mostly 1800-1950 (just last year), another ex-2500 player had the same conclusion even with my issues, and my strokes were worse then than they are now.  That they would think someone with such poor form was capable of such things is amazing.  I am personally happy and satisfied that I got to 2000 and I felt with my health issues that there was a real possibility that I would never do certain things including beating players that adults/kids far better than myself have never beaten.

Nothing I claim is particularly unorthodox and coaches agree and disagree all the time.  So I am not sure what you point is.  Remember, I have worked with a variety of coaches and people, 2 or 3 much more extensively than others, but still a variety of people as our sport enables you to get advice from multiple people.   My right knee is more severely damaged than my left and that explains 99% of the issues most people find in my current game when it comes to movement and footwork.  Now that is truly specific to me and not a general principle.  Other than that, I am a two winged looper who plays with heavy topspin on both sides.  You don't find games more orthodox than that, though I can also exchange on both wings vs. specific opponents.

Good luck when you get back into the sport.  Playing this game well as an adult requires you to develop your own understanding of it.  It can be wrong, it can be right, but it has to be yours.  I know you strongly disagree with whatever you think mine is, but would like your take when you get back into the sport and have played for a few years and have gotten significantly better.  Then you can decide with an informed view whether I am truly saying anything unorthodox.

Ah, your sidespin looping na wa o! You've adapted your strokes pretty well to standing straight, especially your backhand.  Given that date, you've clearly been playing a much higher level than me for much longer than I have even played.