Average to Pro Backhand in 7 Days l Table Tennis 

Played with a Stiga, briefly, in the early 70's. I trained with a plywood backboard at the far end for backspin returns, and a rubber-surfaced cellular foam backboard mid-table for topspin returns at extreme pace, countering, smashing, looping, etc.. If you could call those 'robots'. The biggest improvement in sheer power, snap, and velocity came from swinging a bare barbell bar (say that quickly three times... g'won, I dare ya...) and a 15 pound unbalanced barbell. I was rated 17th in my province, but I was among the top 5 in backhand (and forehand) drive/loop power. I would have been a top-10 player, but had an aversion to push-returns. Everything was looped, flicked, rolled, or swatted, including serves; good players found me very predictable so I never advanced.

Which equipment are you using?

My academy has a robot so I have trained with it before

@@miguelmelo7697 If that's me, the backboards were all hand-made. The foam sheet was a 2x3 foot floor standing pad. It was fortunately ideal for the combination of not-too-fast but topspin-return characteristics. The pace it forced you into (3-4 drives per _second_ ) meant extreme development of pace, block, and reflexes in real time play. Also had a glass plate with vertical undulations, which was not much good for spin, but great for dealing with unexpected directions: fh, bh, and gut-shots where you _really_ had to decide fast. I also made a hand made wheel robot. Currently working on a AR robot with actuators built into a real racquet to simulate sound and hand-feel coming directly _from_ the virtual ball strike on the blade. But that project is highly classified.

There is this cool robot from china - Huipang HP07. Cheap but it oscillates, can do sidespin, topspin and backspin, and serves! I've got it and I recommend it wholeheartedly!

power from the ground is real :))

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Thats my build lol, HL5 with Fastarg G-1 on the forehand, when i bought it, i was looking for a tenergy 05 like rubber, it is fast, but is not as bouncy as the tenergy, at least, you can control way easier. Also the HL5 vibrates a lot, its kinda annoying XD.

@@borisgraell I have been asking Dan for about 2 weeks now

@@borisgraell HL5 does I agree

I just want to see his opinion on it and an honest review

G1 were made for the cell ball, why test it, should test P1, the most recent.

Time for a backhand showdown with you pocket?

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Coupling high-mass, low speed shoulder (or at least upper arm) to low-mass high-speed hand and racquet is the key. I found weight-swinging the missing training link to developing that coupling-snap, and the gain in actual muscle-strength to improve it ever more.

Hey JMTTM thanks very much :) I'll send them to you as soon as I'm back at the HQ 💪🔥

@@TableTennisDaily could i get them as well?

Can you add the setting to this thread so all of us can see. Thank you very much.

@@TableTennisDaily Thanks Dan! Looking forward to that!

@@TableTennisDaily Hi Dan, any news on the exercise settings? Have you been back at the HQ yet?

The robots have nets so it's gathering the balls automatically