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AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Banana Flick with Richard Prause

AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Banana Flick with Richard Prause

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AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Banana Flick with Richard Prause
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Welcome to the fifth episode of the new Butterfly AMICUS Training Tips Video Series. In this series Butterfly coaching expert Richard Prause will guide you through a number of coaching videos on how you can effectively use the new Butterfly AMICUS Robots to help improve your game.

Butterfly player Tiago Apolonia demonstrates each technique, whilst using the AMICUS Prime to help make the understanding of each technique easier. In this video Coach Prause explains how to receive both long and short services.

Butterfly player Tiago Apolonia demonstrates how you can practise these techniques with the AMICUS Prime Robot.

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