You start with an open blade (assuming against underspin), and then lift your right elbow while closing the blade. The blade goes from 3 o'clock to 9 o'clock in a clock in the vertical plane. The lifting of the right elbow is a the key mechanism that closes the blade and gives you quite a lot of spin. It feels like elbowing a guy in front and can be quite a powerful mechanism which will allow you to brush the ball heavily to create heavy sidetopspin just like a BH chiquita. Similar to BH chiquita you have to go around the ball diagonally to increase dwell time. 

I might actually do that next time I play haha... super fun stroke to learn! 

Hey that's unfair, I know penholders have been able to do this FH chiquita stroke for a long af time.... this is more an innovation for shakehanders 

You simply haven't seen it much where you are located or you just weren't paying attention.

It's always been part of TT players' armoury of strokeplay.

Lol I've watched a shit ton of videos both pro and amateur and I haven't come across this stroke before. Would love to see any video where a guy does this FH chiquita (note that it's not your normal FH flick, the mechanism is almost completely different)

Sorry I am not attacking you. I am just pointing out that your lack of experience in viewing TT greatly affects your outlook.

YouTube videos reflect a very tiny fraction of the amount of competitive table tennis that takes place daily. And no, I am not going to waste time trying to find videos demonstrating all the FH flippy stroke and its variations

Players have used FH and Bh flip for donkeys years. Especially during the hardbat era, players were inventing all sorts of strokes using different grips. Flipped balls over the table BH and FH was very common. The coming of the sandwich bat changed the main emphasis to loop based play at the top level.

However, as styles vary each year, it may make a comeback.

If you really want to do the FH chiquita, look at how players side/topspin around the net. Now try that same stroke from an over the table position > Voila! FH Chiquita!

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That's not a FH chiquita in the video, it's your bog standard FH flick....

WAY TO GO BLAHNESS, YOU ROCK!

edit: this does not lower the high opinion I and all have of your own knowledge of the game Tinykin, I know in advance I'll be interested when I see a post of yours I have not read yet, either way it's never dull with you! I do appreciate having that guarantee about people, it's not that common, they make life interesting.

I've never tried it or seen it, but it does look interesting. I think the closest I've seen is the around the net shot that people like Adam Bobrow do.

I'm really bad at doing non-conventional things since I'm the type that needs lots of practice to be able to do even a simple stroke, and I haven't been able to practice much at all recently!

By the way, I want to say as well, KEEP POSTING if you have any ideas or thoughts. These posts help keep the forum alive and invites very valuable discussions that can benefit people of all levels. And even if something has been discussed a year or two ago, I don't think it hurts to bring it back as well (this is a general thought of mine, not about this post because I haven't seen this discussion during my time on myTT). Sometimes new ideas, new thoughts, and new ways to talk about the idea are born from repeated discussions like that.

Thanks mickd for the encouragement :) yeah the movement is actually very similar to a FH sidespin hook loop. It's actually coming from the fake flick series which I've been developing and using (where you do a quick downwards push and then followthrough with a flick movement). Since then I've improved it so that the "flick" component is a chiquita rather than a normal flick on both wings, I found that it improves stability (more topspin = more margin for error) and deception quite a bit (coz opponents can detect the lack of brush in the flick to read it, the chiquita is also brush heavy so it looks more similar to the push). So essentially there's two variations that look very similar, one produces sideunderspin and one produces sidetopspin, depending on whether the "push" movement is true or fake. 

In my circle there's a lot of weird af playstyles which turn out to be highly effective...I'm not the only one who has nonconventional strokes haha. The best player in my circle who wins many tournaments (inverted FH, long pip BH) has a lot of unconventional strokes too (for eg long pip chiquita, strawberry) that drives people playing him crazy haha... I think in the amateur world where footwork and strokes are not optimised that well, there's actually a lot of room for innovation, and being unconventional is usually a huge advantage especially if you also possess an effective FH loopkill to finish off any loose balls. It's also quite fun to use these strokes and bamboozle people 

What does that have to do with the FH chiquita haha....