I took some hard lessons from the University of Hard Knocks.
On the good side, you can simply rely on the blade speed and use cheap af rubbers, might be a lot more economical in the long run? Lol
There's a good reason why thick single ply Hinoki has been the go-to blade composition for single sided Japanese penhold attackers. You owe it to yourself to try one at least once
How else you think I could hit through some of the high backspin balls? It is because of the uber bounciness of the Hinoki wood's inherent property assisted by uber bouncy rubber like MX-P.
I played against one very high level Jpen player who also used some hinoki some months ago and it was ridiculous how fast the TPB punch was with such tiny amounts of input power that he put in. It was a tough as nails match which I lost mostly due to not being able to match his speed in BH-BH (before i started on my multiball journey to become a topspin speed demon) and of course the crazy Jpen FH loopkills. Although the Jpen FH and serves are the killer but I remembered the TPB punch very well, damn that was impressive for a penhold BH.
I don't know about penhold, but I play H3 and just love Hinoki or spruce as top layer. I can imagine a one-ply should be great too...
Incredible. I used Zetro Quad with boosted Hurricane 3 Provincial OS. Short game was awesome but the power when I really went for it was also good.
NL,
Don't listen to what he is saying now, use the rubber for a few months first, at least till the end of July please, better till the end of the year - you need this for your development. The two shot sequences you are playing now are exactly what I have been begging you to play for a long time and now you can play them, you want to change? I mean, you don't want to slow down your blade so what is your serious alternative?
OK, got it. Stick with it till end of the year.
With the caveat that ratings are earned in matches, not in videos, and that ball quality and game speed isn't always easy to see, the feel I get watching your games is somewhere between 1000 and 1600, but more likely somewhere between 1200-1400. Usually, if you can push long to someone and be confident that they will push back most of the time, they are under 1600 unless they play an advanced blocking and countering style, in which case their pushes will be a bit more consistent, varied and venomous with the intent of drawing errors or getting weak openings to counter. Below 1600, unless they are kids, the play is not physical either. Above 1600, things get much more interesting and it is harder to win if you give the player what they want all the time.
Gozo, if you don’t hit the table on the other end it doesn’t matter how fast your shots are….
Yes, it is easier to use the BH dominant loop if you start with reverse serves to their BH. One of the best patterns i found is to serve it to their extreme BH, they will be scared of returning it down the line if you are deceptive enough and your spin is strong. And then you simply treat it like BH looping a FH pendulum serve from your opponent. If you go with the spin you can loop this with very high quality to their FH or middle and that's a major point winner - very difficult to move to the left to receive and then deal with down the line BH loop. Typically they can only block the ball, and then you just prepare to finish them off with a FH loopkill (do not use your BH for the finishing shot unless you think you're Darko Jorgic lol, i always make a shit ton of errors using my BH for these opportunity balls that I stopped trying).
Yes, I think we talked about it too, but I totally forgot about the part of treating the return like a pendulum serve. Yesterday when I started pivoting to my right to loop with my BH, it kind of just naturally when to his FH side, and yes, they were pretty much for winners.
