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

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This video series originally appeared in 2018.  The content remains pertinent today – and the tips may assist many of you looking to use your social distancing time to improve your game.  While the video series was designed for the AMICUS Robot, the tips are the same whether you are playing with any robot, doing drills with a friend, or even if you are visualizing and using shadow training to help raise your heart rate.  Stay healthy and stay safe.  ButterflyOnline looks forward to seeing you back at the tables when its safe.

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AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Banana Flick with Richard Prause
(Courtesy of ButterflyMag)

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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