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Certainly I agree that Russia (particularly Putin) made the decision to invade Ukraine four years ago and it is an unjustifiable act of aggression. The invasion is brutal and fascist and has caused an immense amount of suffering for both Ukrainian and Russian people. I really hope that Ukrainian...

From an objective standpoint, socialist states have provided much faster development, much better standards of living, and far less belligerent foreign policy than capitalist states. Control for any variable you like. Capitalism causes poverty, war, and inequality in far greater quantities than...

If you want to play a defensive chopping game, 0.5 sponge is not enough. Go for max sponge ideally. If you want to play close to the table with spin reversal, then Curl P1v is the wrong rubber. Get one of the weird rubbers from Spinlord or Dr Neubauer.

There are two categories of issues: 1. issues with your body 2. changes in behavior of the equipment Being cold is pretty indisputably a bad thing. To deal with your body being cold, it's generally a good idea to spend a while warming up -- stretching your muscles, doing some plyometrics, and...

Yeah, of course I won't be able to generate the same amount of backspin compared to an inverted rubber. So I guess what I am asking is: how do I generate enough backspin to make my opponent hesitate on their next attack? The pro players seem to be able to make sufficient spin with their pips...

Oh, this is good to know, thank you! Can you say more about fast hand movement? My impression was that the chop should be a very relaxed movement generated mostly from the hips. When chopping topspin I try to relax everything and snap my arm. When chopping backspin I found it's best to keep...

Definitely working on my twiddle. I often twiddle in the rally after I chop, opponent pushes, and then I twiddle to push with my inverted rubber. Sometimes I twiddle to counterattack when the opponent loops my chop, and sometimes I twiddle to banana flick a weak return. But many times...

Ah okay good to know thanks! Yes I watch a lot of Joo Sae Hyuk, I really like his form and I learned a lot from him. Right now I think my chop against topspin is very good, almost always my opponent puts it in the net. My question is about chopping a no-spin ball, which I did not see much in...

After playing as a long pips chopper for a while, it seems like there is a pretty big difficulty with the setup: when the opponent sends no-spin balls to the backhand. Watching pro choppers, it seems like they manage to chop the no-spin balls with enough backspin so that the opponent doesn't...

I have Koji Matsushita Offensive if you want to do a trade

before you got the golden viscaria?

Yes, Manika Batra plays very much the push-block-attack style close to the table. A chopping style would be more like Hanoka Hashimoto or Joo Sae Hyuk. Ah okay, this is not really something you can do well with long pips. Feint Long 3 would be your best option because it is grippy enough to...

The thing to understand about long pips is that there are two very distinct styles that you can play, and you play these styles with two very different types of rubbers. Style 1: push-block and attack, close to the table. Uses fast low-friction pips with OX or very thin sponge to get maximum...