Recent content by DrBean

You're quite right, it's unreasonable of me to speak on a topic in my professional domain. I shouldn't have cherry picked the exact thing you were wrong about. That's on me.

Or you can just take caffeine, like all the pro athletes already do, and save yourself the headache of having to manage potential opioid dependence.

Table tennis absolutely does not reward strength in an absolute sense. Or rather, the marginal benefit of strength for table tennis levels out very early. I don't think it's particularly dangerous to make a COMPARATIVE observation that a table tennis athlete might derive less benefit from PEDs...

ITTF participates in anti-doping. Kanak was banned for missed tests back in 2023, and in 2010 Dima received a suspension for clen that was rescinded. He claimed it was from eating contaminated meat but that's almost never the case. Those are the only two cases I know of， but the benefits of...

Looking at the methodology this is a pretty weak paper. Like アメリカーノ weak.

I think you're replying to me, so here we go. Basketball being more popular than table tennis is not an opinion - it's data. Its popularity in China is IN SPITE OF the CCP and CBA. I'm unsure if you're able to grasp the difference between a sport's popularity, participation, and general level...

Everyone else getting better, China getting worse, equipment leveling the field (debatable), etc. Maybe up and down. All these things I think are secondary to my main thesis - Yao Ming (only half joking). Yao Ming being drafted by the Rockets really cemented basketball as the dominant sport in...

I know right? I mean with the benefit of hindsight. Usually a player gets "figured out" before he gets to that stage, but that's benefit of playing for China I guess. I suppose every great also had this journey, where they had to plug their holes.

To me there was never an absolute advantage to the hurricane, but a combination of a variety of factors, possibly a synergy between the way they approach the game and how hurricanes support it. Perhaps the last generation played first with the celluloid balls and had to transition, it's a little...

Just like how many buildings in the US don't have a 13th floor.

You know what you've prompted me to self-reflect a bit and if I can't answer the specific question I can still answer the more general question and maybe be of some help. It would depend on what the weight loss consisted of - adipose, skeletal muscle, or just water weight - and over what time...

As in only swimmers are more fit than tt players, i.e. the fittest athletes at the summer Olympics are swimmers? Would depend on how they defined fitness but if any strength element played a big role this would not be true for swimmers and table tennis players. Regardless, like I said, it's...

Physique wise in the context of professional athletes they are ultimately unimpressive - definitely not "ripped and fit af". In fact even in the context of people who exercise intensely they are unimpressive. If you put table tennis players in a general physical test of Olympians - mile...

I eat three bananas, because monkey - never - cramps.

The load on the knees in a knee forward lunge or a squat is not meaningfully different - both are positions with maximal knee extension and maximal dorsiflexion. If anything, there's less load in a knees forward lunge.