I still read from his original post that he did it before preparation. If it was before preparation, it is not a foul. Anyway, i do not fancy his tricks and his pursuit for more tricks.
I reckon Sigit Budiarto does it, but subtlely. Though i could not read his mind, i am sure Sigit does it NOT with the intention to scare his opponent.
What about those "fake shouts", when u jump and supposedly try to smash, but actually play a drop shot at the last minute? it's a good form of disguise, and i suppose it's not illegal? cause i see players doing it all the time.
I don't believe it is illegal, and unless they have a consistent form for both with no giveaways, it's a dangerous deception as they'll be slightly slower in heading to position. Just like those who predictably do cross court drops.
I would say that the only way this could be considered a foul would be in the context of continuity of the game......if your opponent is set and ready to serve and you are still 'practicing' before readying yourself to receive then you could get called for a violation in that sense. Your positioning on receiving a serve as long as it complies with the basic laws ie diagonal oppisite box and both feet in contact with the ground is irrelivent, you can crouch or stand as tall as you like, as far away or as close to the service line as you want. Shouting that the shuttle is out in the middle of a rally, to confuse your opponent into leaving a shuttle that is obviously in.....is a massive violation of the laws and yes would be called as a foul and quite possibly earn you a yellow card. Alot of top class players move their racket when waiting to receive serve in a sort of shaking movement. Finally if you feel you have time to make more than one shot inbetween your opponent hitting the shuttle and you actually returning it then good luck to you, so should you play a smash type motion and miss the shuttle completelythen play it with an underarm stroke for example then there is nothing wrong with that. It may be that i have misunderstood the context of the original mail but this is how I see what has been asked.
let's be honest, the only point of this is to deceive or distract your opponent from your drop shot. hence it is a fault?
a Distraction would be like if u pretend to be making a smash and scream before u hit but in fact u r doing a drop shot, your scream would be consider as a "distraction", and it will be called as foul. Making a deceived a shot is only if u flicking a a shot or cover it so well so the opponent can not possilbe guess where the bird is really going and thats called skill. But if we r talking bout serving.. as long as the reciever raise his racket in position then he shouldn't be doing anything funny and wait for you to get the serve in. i doni't think there is any problem if the reciever like to do a little roar before he raise the racket in position.
how about people who have trained to use both hands? this may sound impossible or silly, but i have a friend who does that. i've seen him in a position where his backhand return is in a poor position or weak, he grabs his racquet using his other hand and return a slightly weaker shot. perhaps, the people we play with aren't too strict about proper rules, but they are very good players, and by that, i mean very good players (some ex national players).
there was never any rules against switching racket hand so i don't see why not, plus being able to play with both hand doesn't really give u any major advantages i'm sure the time it takes to switch hand would be slower then a simple over head shot. Besides, being able to make some good traditional back hand shots can impress friends just as much as be able to switch racket hand.
A friend of mine is in the school's competitive team. He told me about that one doubles match he had once: They had won the first set, but barely. At the start of the second, his partner noticed that his frame was broken, but just enough so that it wasn't obvious to the other team. "Change your racket" my friend said. "Nah, I'll put on a show first" the other replied. They receive a serve. The guy hits it and it goes out. "GODDAMMIT!" he yells. He takes his racket, hits the head brutally unto the ground, breaks the shaft in half with his knee, twists it around in weird ways and throws the mangled piece of scrap metal onto the opponent's court. Then he looks at them. MEAN. He then proceeded to get his second racket. They won the second set easily.
Was that meant to be a psychological strategy? But throwing the racquet over to the other side sounds like not just a foul, but like aiming to hurt the opponent. That probably is a ban?
He didn't throw it at them. It was really just to scare them. Of course, it wasn't perfectly legal, and he made sure the refs weren't looking (4-5 refs for 12 courts). It's a good example of how not to behave in a tournament, but it's still a funny story. Sure had an impact, anyways...
Looking fierce is not a foul.......I look at an opponent that is about to serve like I am going to bite the shuttle to pieces when it comes over the net. Shaking your racket or whipping it to distract.........come on you know in yourself if you are doing this on purpose to distract so don't act dumb......it is a foul....... besides why do you want to win points on 'bad sportsmanship' and foul tactics? Winning to me is not just winning- If I cannot win with my training, fitness, tactics and have to resort to fouls, rush seving when opponent not really ready etc that to me is not winning with honour! Winning with HONOUR means more to some than others, I guess. I feel if you resort to these measures than..........the rest of your game must be weak and you look for other avenues for a couple of 'cheap' points without having to work hard for it........lazy! I don't need 'sly' tricks to win.....I am sure most feel this way too
MMMMmmmm......that would not work on me! an attempt like that to intimidate me.......would just make me laugh at him like some sort of idiot. Chucking his racket at me like some sort of brat!, what a goose!
only poor skilled players use those distraction thinking it give them an edge so they think. Actually, i can exploit those distraction to my advantage (except screaming because it isn't hi fidelity )
Yes, totally agree. There is ways to combat these 'foul tactics' whilst staying well within the rules .......very satisfying isn't it Cooler..hehe
What about little shaking on receive (like for instance Vladimir Ivanov and many other doubles players do)? Is it legal?
Am I scare you brother...? Sometimes, and many times, I used to smash as hard as I can-but surely, my opponents were not so pro player. Just like I am of course