Yooo, any plans for today? TFTI QD, you gave Joseph a free book? whatever. I've been using this with my golf game and it helps. I'm going to teach my boy Tatum this technique
QD sent me this book personally since he's my bestie. I haven't read it yet.
Bro, this book is too high level for me. I'm dead
I'm already 7.0, nothing I already know
If you only read one section, make it Bruce Lee's 1 inch punch. Little backswing + core is the entire game at the top. Quang ties pro habits to a simple mental model you can train the same day. Clean writing, no fluff, real court examples. Best pickleball training book I've purchased in five years on tour.
I bought copies for my entire academy. The core-engagement chapters alone are worth the price. Players stop arming the ball and start rotating — unforced errors drop, pace goes up without bigger swings. Quang Duong has written the missing link between "hit harder" advice and actual high-level technique. Five stars without hesitation.
I've been stuck at 4.5 for two years. The chapter on Bruce Lee's 1 inch punch reframed everything — short backswing, drive from the core, stop telegraphing. Within three weeks my partners said I looked like a different player. Quang writes like a coach who has actually been on the court with 5.5+ athletes. Instant classic for anyone serious about climbing.
Most instruction books recycle the same drills. This one connects minimal preparation to martial-arts power transfer and shows how tennis and table-tennis pros already live this principle. As a former D1 tennis player who crossed over, I kept nodding. The 'punch, don't swing' framework is the cleanest explanation of NVZ power I've read.
I came for the catchy chapter title and stayed for the best explanation of compact power in any racket sport. Cross-references to squash, table tennis, and combat sports make the philosophy stick. My doubles partner and I quote "one-inch punch" mid-match now. Our win rate at 5.0 events jumped this season. Highly recommended by our whole club pro staff.
We are not touring pros — just obsessed rec players. The drills in the one-inch punch chapter (no take-back allowed, kitchen block-to-roll) changed our game overnight. Friends keep asking what we changed. Answer: we stopped swinging big. Thank you Quang for making elite concepts accessible.