After watching few videos of modern defender, my interest is growing for this kind of play especially when seeing Joo Se Kyuk style. Put on old tibhar grass super long pip rubber (rarely use) on TBS I try this setup- modern defender with inverted on fh and long pip on bh . Surprisingly I beat some guys I lost to before and I began to like this set up.
Seem like it is short cut to become better player. However, it is no as easy as I expected. This modern defender need different skill and maybe more time to master. I'll see in a month if thing get better maybe I'll stick to this style.
After several practice matches, I managed to
1. handle tricky serve - however I need to push long for better chopping later
2. chop block low top spin ball- opponent hard to return
3. Several long chopping land on table
4. kill some slow ball near table using pip
5. flip kill backspin ball
Need improvement
1. low serve return and long push return to prevent strong attack
2. chopping top spin from distance
3. block near table-off bounce
Setup
TBS T05/Grass super
