Answer for recovery-rubber-choice

Hi Dipak,

I personally would suggest staying with your current setup as by the sounds of it you like the feeling and are generally happy with it. From what you’ve said its just the recovery from a fast shot and being ready as the rubbers are quick. So I would do a lot more drills on this in training and really focus on keeping relaxed, short and compact shots and improving recovery.

This way you can keep the 05 on the forehand and get the penetrative shots that you mentioned and also the easy to use 05fx on backhand. To me I would say this setup is good and you should just focus on being comfortable with it even when playing strong and the ball coming back fast.

A few good tips for this are keep the bat higher than you think you need which allows you to be over the ball, focus on hitting over the top of the ball and being relaxed on the contact and using the speed already on the ball.

Also having a fairly relaxed grip will help with these shots and also recovery, practice recovering quickly after a strong ball and being able to control the next few shots and in time it will improve.

Also work on better placement of your strong shots for example into the body or crossover so it is more difficult for better opponents in the higher league when you move up to block back easily.

Let us know how you are getting on!

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