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Sure. Harimoto was the first guy in table tennis history dropping his racket after an important victory... I know dozens of players doing so. Is Harimoto fan of those?

In principle, I share your opinion. But I think that in multiball and in practice that is not recorded they also play more irregular exercises. They probably start with regular ones to get the right timing and a feeling for their technique. There is one story I heard from a table tennis coach...

One of the worst matches I have ever seen from Timo Boll.

Chuang is not an extreme value? I think the average value does not provide much information here. There are 8 from the top Asians being 25 or younger and in Europe there are only 2 (Pitchford and Gauzy), which both have a lot of ups and downs.

Wang Hao is not only a longtime teammate of Fan, but also his provincial coach for 4 years now. Since 2015, he also frequently visited the practice of the CNT to work as a technical and mental advisor / supporter of Fan. In addition, he became an official CNT coach in spring 2017 already. All...

@JesperStef I do not agree with you in some points. Firstly, the same strategy with sending only the 6-7 players did not prevent the big three Ma Long, Zhang Jike and Xu Xin from developing their skills and gaining experience. The difference is that those three players were very successful from...

I also don't think that it is all about the ball... there are a lot of factors and one is talent for sure. But refering to the ball topic: a lot of people here argue that Harimoto adapted much better to the ABS ball or developed a new table tennis style together with his coaches with respect to...

I did not say that. What I stated is that both LikeTT and EmRatThich have no legit rights to publish these videos as langel clearly pointed out.

No, it is not. How do you come to that? Copying videos from foreign sources and post them on youtube is neither legal by law nor is it included in the "fair use" doctrine of youtube. Just for your information, I cite two paragraphs from the youtube homepage: "Myth #1: If I give credit to the...

I share your opinion that Adam Bobrow does a good job. But the argument with rating points makes no sense at all. True, TTR 1700-1800 is better than the average, but it is also far, far away from professional table tennis. Even in Germany there are about 5000 listed players with more than TTR...

I do not judge him either because I do not know him actually. I was just asking

I am surprised that Zhang Jike is not protesting. I thought he is very close to Liu Guoliang. Furthermore, he has not much to loose as his career seems to be more or less over from a sportive perspective - especially if Liu Guoliang, who defended him is no coach anymore. And his behavior (rip...

What do you mean by "training with Dima"? Ovtcharov is living and practicing in Düsseldorf, Samsonov is often in Düsseldorf as well. The only days where both can practice with Mizutani is before champions league games and this is probably more a warmup than a real training. Mizutani is...

I think it is Fang Bo. Zhang Chao is neither member of the CNT anymore, nor is he nominated for World Championships. So why should he be at Düsseldorf practicing with Liu Guoliang?

Also, compared to men like Zhang Jike or Ma Long her technique looks pretty inconsistent. Maybe, she is not used to get so much backspin?

This is not from 2017 for sure.

I haven't seen ML's first set. Probably, you are right about his body language. My comment was meant in a general way. You are free to express your opinion in each way you like. I like most of your posts. I just said the joke is not funny anymore. That's all.

This joke is not funny any more. Only the first time it was. By the way, I do not get why the most of you care so much about LGL's words and phrasing. The overall idea is quite clear and much more interesting. His intention certainly was not to make introverted players like Shang Kun shouting...

Neither the one nor the other. Compared to the other CNT members he is not that good yet.

Is there any list for 2016 as well? Does anyone know which coach is reponsible for which players? I think Xiao Zhan works with Zhang Jike, Fang Bo and Xu Chenhao. Qin Zhijian is coach of Ma Long and Zhou Yu. Wu Jingping is coach of Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong. What about the other players?