It may not just skill only. He must have very strong wrist. Otherwise, the other top player like LD, LCW and PG should be able to do it also.
If i'm right it's not 260, but only (well only, it's not weak lol) 200 km/h. Still it is very fast. Takes a lot of practice to be able to hit it that hard.
Right. 260 is just around the usual speeds of forehand smashes from top shuttlers. You can check the 200km/h back-hand smash maybe in 2005 or 2006 WC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEsARpxuYTM Ask Smash_master I guess....though it looks as fast as a forehand smash just less angle.
I saw the video, but it didn't display the speed. Controversial. It doesn't look like fast enough in my view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ueycxyjOs Check the rally starting at 9:00....there are 2 big hits, Taufik's backhand smash, and CH's jump smash, and the reading is 261km/h.... one of them was that.
Yeah... I'm still recalling and can't find the right video on Youtube; maybe I'm wrong. It should be around 250km/h not 200km/h.