Australia vs Hong Kong HD BOZ BH

Hey Boz, why is there a gap on the side of your racket and near the handle? Did it shrink or something?

I thought about all this stuff about how my backhand is good, and thought that when I put my mind to it I can use forehand almost always.  I should go back to this for a while till it catches up. 

Found this nice pic of Tim from Silvalis thanks.

hmm...if your next video is of Andy Shih that you've essentially posted my team's strongest opponent, Uni of Queensland (ie, Stanley, Tim, Andy).

Man it seems both Stanley and Tim have gotten so much stronger. :S

Tim beat me in the final of the Brisbane open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Boz my natural game is to serve short with backspin then loop the next ball regardless of what comes back. But people that can return the serve with pace and topspin give me trouble. Although I'm sure we would have a close game (I can't say who would win since we both play very differently)  I would definatly pick on your forehand and I don't think I would hit any ball to your backhand at all. I'm fairly sure you would be able to smack a good percentage of my loops down my forehand while I was still unwinding from a forehand loop on the backhand corner and that anoys me alot :P. So I would be looping down the short length of the table to your forehand or at your body. If you could learn to counterloop from your forehand I wouldn't have any hope. But having said that I can't even remember seeing someone hit a successful counter loop in recent memory if ever, you need to belong to a much larger club than I do to be able to find two strong loopers and then they both need to be friends and want to practice together and only then can you learn to counter loop properly and the chances of all that happening in most places in Australia are allmost zero.

Still since you have a good backhand it would be worth developing a forehand loop and possibly a counter loop (if you can find someone with a good loop to practise with) because then you would be a really high level player

icontek wrote: Your backhand mechanics look solid! But your FH grip and lack of any actual "stroke" (you are guiding, or at best "actively FH blocking" the ball) limit your options for creating power. Serious question - Boz - how long have you played with OFF+ gear? I'm sure it's addictive and makes your backhand very powerful (blocking, topspinning, etc). But many of the middle/high level players at our club who have played with OFF+ gear for any extended period have also developed small/awkward FH mechanics. I'd describe it as "tentative" because they find that larger strokes with lots of ballspeed and little dwell time) tend to produce a longer ball. My advice would be to grab a Primorac with unglued Sriver FX 2.1 on both sides and just practice FH *stroking* EVERY ball. With that kind of gear, you'll have to work to generate the power, but you'll develop the control to vary spin and placement with your topspin; rather than tentatively guiding the ball with your FH as you do in your video.

I cant swing my fh hand anymore - I do it occasionally but this last week it has digressed into as you said guide or block.  a full swing usually hurts - i can do it with a gradual build up but not a quick accelerating stroke - similarly it hurts to recover a bigger stroke