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Actually, I think the form of your strokes look really good, both FH and BH.  Of course, you only showed a limited range of technique in your drills, but they looked better than is common for under 2000 in the US. The real question would be to see how you looked in real matches against a variety of players. 
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Originally posted by racquetsforsale racquetsforsale wrote:

Seguso,
 
Is there someone you can play with who can return short and low or with heavy underspin, both with good placement?


Yeah, the guy in the first video, the one in the top 100. When he does, I usually lose. I can backhand-sidespin-flip over the table, but when the ball is short and underspin on the forehand I am in trouble because my short game is weak.
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Originally posted by xander7803 xander7803 wrote:

again you are too stiff on your feet! again if you lower your stance a tiny bit


Thank you  Smile

Yesterday I tried to have a lower stance. It turns out I am faster because I don't have to go down, cause I am already down. :) Cool. OTOH, moving sideways is more difficult. And I get tired too soon.

Quote ... overall my hat off to you for playing only for a year!!! i know players who play for 15 yrs and they are not even close to your level!!!


Two years actually. And I have a robot. And I was a tennis player, so I did not really start from scratch.

Quote you stop your motion past middle of stroke. if you would commit all the way to the end your fh topspin would be spinnier and more devastating!!! your bh is pretty good but


I slow down during impact because I don't have enough precision and I am focusing on aiming. When I get more precise (if ever) I can hit harder.

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Quote I am trying to understand what you mean by wrist dropped.
 
The top of your blade points upwards most of the time
 
 
 
while it should point downwards. Hence you are forced to make more pushes rather than normal topspin or wrist brushes. Try to think of your blade axis as a direct prolongation of your forearm.
 


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Originally posted by Imago Imago wrote:

The top of your blade points upwards most of the time
 

 
 
while it should point downwards. H




Thank you Imago. I've seen the illustrations. Really appreciated.

I think I understand, and this is what I already do to loop against flat balls: the tip starts down and I wrist-brush upwards. I do this especially to topspin against short pips or flat services.

I have to work on applying this to looping against topspin or block.
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Here is another clip from side view:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IIBhSl09bw

here you can see:
backhand counterloop: 0:41  1:06    1:14-1:18  1:42  1:49  2:56  3:02  3:44 (@Imago and bluebucket: is this what you mean? )

backhand flip: 0:16   0:36   1:27

short game fh: 2:50



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By the way, here is my partner in the first and last video when he is training seriously:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DQAmxBuH-So#!
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he's movements look good! is he top 100 in italy?
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Easily 2000.. possibly higher depending on your serve/receive serve game. The guy in red is definitely above 2300, and probably higher.
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Originally posted by xander7803 xander7803 wrote:

he's movements look good! is he top 100 in italy?


yes, the guy in red is easily in the top 100 in Italy, climbing very fast. He is almost 17 years old. His service, receive, footwork and fh counterloop are his strong points. The other guy is his father, now 60 years old, formerly in the top 200 in the world.


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ratings have proven to be wrong again and again......
there is only one certain 100% fake proof way of telling whether you are good or not.
you beat sa01 then you can call yourself good.
you lose to sa01 back to kindergarten.


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Originally posted by mikepong mikepong wrote:

i actually like your BH, you hare a good high arc which i have no doubt has lots of spin,


BTW, the bh arc is due to vega pro. Today I played with Acuda s2 and it is much lower and straighter. But faster, which helps against very good players such as Levon. The spinny opener does little to them. I think I'll switch to acuda or calibra for bh too.


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can i ask why you switch to calibra on FH?  s2 on BH is also very good and yes vega pro has high arc throw i actually like it but its not as durable as T05
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Originally posted by mikepong mikepong wrote:

can i ask why you switch to calibra on FH?  s2 on BH is also very good and yes vega pro has high arc throw i actually like it but its not as durable as T05


I switched to calibra on fh from vega pro 3 days ago (all videos are with calibra lt on fh), because with vega pro some players could return my loops too easily. With VPro I would end up making a swing too wide so I would lose balance and could not recover in time. Not so with Calibra LT: In particular in the second video in my signature, Levon finally could not block my fh loops so easily, and said I have improved (he says it is not the rubber but it's me, but I know it's the rubber).

Same problem with backhand: as you see in the videos (all videos are with vega pro backhand), my loop was spinny but not fast enough, so in order to kill I ended up swinging too wide and missing. Not so with Acuda S2: today my bh with S2 had much more penetration than you see in the video.


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Originally posted by seguso seguso wrote:



I appreciate your help. I am trying to understand what you mean by wrist dropped. In Henzell's video, I do see that the hand starts below the table, and moves upwards, but at the same time I do not see the wrist dropped, i.e. I don't see the blade tip pointing down. I see the blade brushing the ball from above. I'll have another look though.

At first I thought you were describing Schlager's backhand. That one seems to me to fit your description more: he starts with the wrist dropped (blade rather open) and then he rotates and closes the blade during the shot.

Anyway, I need to learn backhand loop against block, that's for sure. Cry


Admit I haven't read the whole (I'm going to be late for training soon) but dropping the wrist doesn't necessarily mean your racket pointing downwards. Put your forearm and hand in front of you and horizontal to the ground. Then angle your wrist backwards towards yourself 45 degrees and downwards 45 degrees. I would call this dropping the wrist.

Against a backspin push there is more reason to have your racket tip pointing downwards.
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Originally posted by ttEDGE - William ttEDGE - William wrote:


 dropping the wrist doesn't necessarily mean your racket pointing downwards. Put your forearm and hand in front of you and horizontal to the ground. Then angle your wrist backwards towards yourself 45 degrees and downwards 45 degrees. I would call this dropping the wrist.


Thanks a lot for clearing this up, and happy birthday! Thumbs Up
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