RPB critique wanted

Half-long?

These balls are long balls with little underspin.

looks ok for basic warm up drill, but u not gona lift many serves like that. Instead of high, long and no spin, the serves will be spiny, short and low.

Thomasson wrote: Half-long? These balls are long balls with little underspin.

Edited by schen - 01/27/2014 at 5:44am

Was just wondering, normall a short ball bounces at least 3x, half long bounces 2 times with the second bounce on the white line, or bounces 1 time just clearing the white line on the second bounce. Long balls bounce 1x.

As a technique tip, the already mentioned weight distribution is clearly the most noticeable one.
What you do is a beginners mistake, im not calling you a beginner!
You think you are sitting down and bending your knees, instead you are moving your hips (ass) backwards.
So when contacting the ball, instead of moving in an upward motion (knees bend to stretched),
you are moving in a forward motion with only the hips. (Hips back to forward position).

Using the upward motion with the knees bending and stretching, you will get power from the leggs which u are barely using now.

schen wrote: Previously I've relied on Tenergy 64 to generate speed more easily on my BH, but I've moved to Sriver EL last month and it's significantly slower.  The power I'm putting in my shots in this video are about as strong as I can go before I start missing 50% of the balls.  Any tips/comments for generating more speed in this scenario is appreciated.

Form looks ok. But the balls are too high and not much spin, so it is hard to tell. Try to increase the backspin and do another video. Then we can see how well it is. Good luck!

Hi Schen, I like your attitude , firstly you come here asking for help and secondly you are taking in information.

hookumsnivy wrote: ... You are bending down, but you're not using your hips.

V-Griper wrote: hookumsnivy wrote: ... You are bending down, but you're not using your hips. +1 Stroke technique- To my perception you are leaning forward at the waist without a corresponding squat or bending of the legs at the knees. The easiest way to get a feel for this that I have tried is to practice with a chair.. Put a pillow on a chair to adjust the height such that the angle formed at the knee is about 100 to 120 degrees. Now sit in the chair with legs a little more than shoulder width apart, the knees pointing out at about 45 degrees and your butt just barely on the edge of the chair. Don't have the robot feed fast at first because if you do it right your legs will be burned out in about 10-20 balls. The movement when you lean forward to get up off of the chair is the motion you want when you hit your BH.  Timing- When the ball bounces on your side of the table is when you need to barely touch your butt on the edge of the chair, then as the ball rises you push with your legs/torso and  rise to meet it. This is so called bounce timing and, ideally, should be done on every shot regardless of type. You are already doing this in general but you weren't squatting correctly at the bounce.  Basically the stroke is controlled by that squatting motion. Pros do it all the time but it's smaller in scale. The chair thing is just to get the feel and timing down once you are consistent then make the movement smaller and quicker. Equipment-  Personally I have found 05fx works really well for me especially with the 656 with what little I have hit with it so far. I have tried 05, 64, barracuda, Rakza 7 soft and Mars II.  In general though I think you stroke is pretty good. I think the amount of thumb pressure you are applying to keep the blade face open is really good.

Edited by schen - 01/28/2014 at 12:20am

from the looks of it, it looks more like you are relying too much on arm movement.  Your legs are too stuck to the ground.   I'm also working my rpb, so don't they take my advice seriously lol.   I was just looking at Wang Hao's video and I was comparing your ready position with his.  Wang Hao is using more rotation and his form looks more round. 

Edited by O! Ju Qian - 02/04/2014 at 3:35pm

V-Griper wrote: I forgot to mention one thing and that is the use of the left arm to help maintain balance on the stroke. Many people overlook this. Basically you want to extend your left arm slightly forward as you "sit back" in order keep your CG stabilized. This is one reason WH looks so smooth and stable when he is executing his stroke. By contrast your left arm goes down as you bend at the waist which subtly nudges you off balance toward the rear when you are doing your follow through.

Well I feel like you have your blade too far out....