The way to respond Ma's devastating "Flying Forehand Flick" would be the following. As soon as you hit a "Floating" return back onto his side. You must first figuring out where that ball will land on his side. That way, you can make an educating guess on which side he would jump on the forehand or the backhand side to fully commit the flying forehand flick. Then base on your guess, you got a bit more time because you already moved early to pick a side. Now you have to guess what kind of an angle he will hit the ball, whether it will be at you, or away from you. Either way, you have to quickly prepare and figured out for that with your instinct and flexibility. Hence your years of practise with muscle memory really helps on the reflex side. Now, you can't simply think that with a simple return, you can get back to the point. To outright turning the momentum around and even winning the rally. What you MUST do is to hit the ball completely away on his OPEN side. Why? Because Ma's forward momentum HAS COMPLETELY given up his position of the table by being on the side. Therefore, even if you return with a quality block shot on the side he is standing, the natural advantage and his great footwork can literally chase the ball down to make a decent return while he was way out of the position, as you can see in some of those footages. Then your instant advantage of a great block shot would be neutralized and Ma would find ways to regain the upper-hand quickly. Even with the best professionals, they would have no chance to respond for Ma's devastating "Flying Forehand Flicks". They only way they could return is by luck of guessing right, plus their great footwork to prepare early as soon as they hit a floater to fully aware of that shot coming to them. As you can see, at the very most, they would be able to get the paddle on it and blocking back 25 percent at best. The only pure athletic move was a perfect and almost impossible return by the younger Timo Ball, who literally ran down to his forehand side while anticipating the flying forehand slap block by Ma from his natural right forehand side. When Ma surprised Ball by not hitting crosscourt, but straight down the line. Ball sprinted and made an incredible block back passed Ma himself on his follow-through motion. That was one of the greatest return I have seen to counter Ma's great arsenal. So can anyone do that to counter Ma's "Flying Forehand Flicks"? Sure they can, but you must be great in your footwork, move early, guess right on which side he would hit at you with the angle of the shot. But most of all, you need luck and pray that you guessed right with the perfect block back on his open side. Otherwise, he will get you more than 80 percent of the time.
What a nice collage of Ma Lin making awesome flicks and never winning a point in the start haha
The way to respond Ma's devastating "Flying Forehand Flick" would be the following. As soon as you hit a "Floating" return back onto his side. You must first figuring out where that ball will land on his side. That way, you can make an educating guess on which side he would jump on the forehand or the backhand side to fully commit the flying forehand flick.
Then base on your guess, you got a bit more time because you already moved early to pick a side. Now you have to guess what kind of an angle he will hit the ball, whether it will be at you, or away from you. Either way, you have to quickly prepare and figured out for that with your instinct and flexibility. Hence your years of practise with muscle memory really helps on the reflex side.
Now, you can't simply think that with a simple return, you can get back to the point. To outright turning the momentum around and even winning the rally. What you MUST do is to hit the ball completely away on his OPEN side. Why? Because Ma's forward momentum HAS COMPLETELY given up his position of the table by being on the side. Therefore, even if you return with a quality block shot on the side he is standing, the natural advantage and his great footwork can literally chase the ball down to make a decent return while he was way out of the position, as you can see in some of those footages. Then your instant advantage of a great block shot would be neutralized and Ma would find ways to regain the upper-hand quickly.
Even with the best professionals, they would have no chance to respond for Ma's devastating "Flying Forehand Flicks". They only way they could return is by luck of guessing right, plus their great footwork to prepare early as soon as they hit a floater to fully aware of that shot coming to them. As you can see, at the very most, they would be able to get the paddle on it and blocking back 25 percent at best. The only pure athletic move was a perfect and almost impossible return by the younger Timo Ball, who literally ran down to his forehand side while anticipating the flying forehand slap block by Ma from his natural right forehand side. When Ma surprised Ball by not hitting crosscourt, but straight down the line. Ball sprinted and made an incredible block back passed Ma himself on his follow-through motion. That was one of the greatest return I have seen to counter Ma's great arsenal.
So can anyone do that to counter Ma's "Flying Forehand Flicks"? Sure they can, but you must be great in your footwork, move early, guess right on which side he would hit at you with the angle of the shot. But most of all, you need luck and pray that you guessed right with the perfect block back on his open side. Otherwise, he will get you more than 80 percent of the time.
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hey emrathich, could you please make videos about oh sang eun?
I think, in general, Ma Lin playstyle is the most viable for the common peoples.... It's traditionals
U push the ball and lift ur hand when the ball is in the highest point . This is how u do a fh flick?
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