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 kevo wrote:

Nice to watch, Matt.  I really liked how short you blocked in the first set and got in occasionally with the FH.
I attack much more with my FH but play similarly to you.  I use OX LPs--Grass DTecs on Immune OX blade, Adidas P7 boosted on the FH--but am having no joy with the new poly ball.  I'm getting half the reverse spin and none of the nice wobble I used to get with old balls on the pips.  My blocks and pushes are going long but without any bite to them. My question(s) for you:  How is the frictionless anti with the poly ball?  Is it a difficult transition from LPs to the frictionless anti?  Can you hit/push no spin/dead stuff with the fric'less anti?  Should I be tempted, this off-season, to make the change to fric'less anti?
Apologies!  (I was tempted to buy the Grizzly you were selling but someone beat me to it!)  Cheers!

Thanks kevo!

I personally do not see much of a difference with the new poly balls playing with the slick anti. There might be slighlt less reversal (5-10%) on blocking topspin but still massive so that people can't reloop. I think you actually get a split second more time on blocks which makes my game a little safer with the anti. So to me the poly ball works fine with frictionless anti. I have heard the same thing from some higher level anti players from Germany as well.
I cannot comment on the transition to frictionless anti from LP because I actually used to play with MP before (Dr. N Diamant) mainly block and counter. I am afraid that you can't just test the slick anti like another LP or inverted because it is a totally different style and technique which probably requires a couple of month of adjusting. Dr. N actually sells a very nice instructional DVD (for only $10 or so) which shows the strokes very nicely. Dead/no spin balls are notoriously difficult with frictionless anti and I typically just kind of chop them back which is the safest for me. This is definetly easier with pips.
In case you wanted to give frictionless anti a try, I would suggest to try a slow controlled one first like the Dr. N ABS. The Grizzly (with ABS sponge) is a little bit faster but still quite controlled on a sloer blade but for me was too fast on an OFF blade (blocks went long).
In case you wanted to check out some videos of higher level Dr. N anti players search for the following people on youtube:
Amelia Solja (top 50 world ranking!), Simon Huth (beat Ruwen Filus a couple years ago in a regional tourney in Germany), Jens Gester (USATT level should be >2400), Amir Ahmed (2nd division in Austria), Maik Schoenknecht (USATT level should be >2400)