The slow underspin serve is all about getting a push you can punch to a corner.

Thanks MNNB for the info and for helping out with your contributions. So glad that Reb took over its like I am a free man, not a prisoner...(quoting Iron Maiden)

I was reading Reb's other post in philosophy, and he plays very aggressively with a fast blade. Just wondering about how to block with something like a gergely.

Does Reb open block with it or does he close block on his bh lp side? Also does he perform more pull back blocks with this faster setup?

Getting a push that I could punch would also be easier if I was using a fast blade.

I found fast OFF+++ carbon blades good for everything except handling hard hits. I couldn't do it, and being able to absorb hard hits is a critically important part of my game.

Well, I say if an Over 50 yr old Korean Achuma lady can do it, we can too.

I think the difference is young, fit male players hit the ball a lot harder than old ladies. The rockets these young guys hit are very difficult to block back onto the table with OFF+++ blades, at least for me. Conversely, I can keep many of those shots on the table with my slow blade.

My main serve is usually heavy underspin and it's not supposed to be deceptive at all, just heavy underspin, forcing my opponents to push or chop back as my aggressive push against their underspin is how I take control of the point. Due to the reversal and taking the underspin ball right off the bounce, my pushes usually have topspin (which helps to bring the ball down) and that allows me to push very fast into the opponents most uncomfortable spot. It allows me to keep the opponents reacting instead of acting by just getting my aggressive pushes back.

I've watched so many of your videos Pushblocker and I noticed that for many of your opponents, your bh backspin serve is slow and short and high sometimes...looks like you are daring them to attack with the fh but they never do, they just push it back and the rally begins. even the match against Pradeepan Peter Paul, who is a scary, powerful, attacker imo, just pushes your serve back. When I serve like that the opponent attacks it immediately forcing me to serve lower, at net level...

Well, I say if an Over 50 yr old Korean Achuma lady can do it, we can too. They play with thh fastest OFF++ blades with OX Grass D-Techs and it is all in the wrist pressure that they get those fast drives back on the table. This crowd never topspins the ball heavy and can slap the piss outta a ball that is 1 cm over net height. They slap each other around like that and when they can get their bat to the ball, they know what to do with it to slow it down. It is all in the wrist and in taking it early.