Recent content by izra

no matter what grip we are talking about, for the spin block your bat has to be angled down and traveling forward and up, while for the regular block you have to have an ONLY SLIGHTLY closed bat angle (almost vertical) and only traveling forward and not up. the trick to a nice controlled block...

i didn't mean it in a bad way, it could really be anything of the above mentioned: talent or being slow or lacking enough hours of practice in a certain area, but it's most likely a combination. another factor is that you already have the general timing and touch precision from your penhold...

are you? or are you just not very fast and mobile? or maybe you lack structured practice?

"more difficult timing and less power to rely on" is precisely why talented players get the backhand right sooner and with less practice than the forehand. less talented players have to practice their backhand even more so than the forehand and still find it very hard to improve.

backhand is more natural, it needs good timing and feeling. forehand is more technical and needs more practice.

oh i see, that makes sense.

so the ball touched the net, then hit the table, then the net (post) and timo hit it after that... i went through the ITTF rules and could not find any reason to give the point to LGY. can someone offer some more insight?

thanks guys, you are awesome! my plan is to show up for league night in seattle pacific ttc tommorow and visit green lake on some other days.

So I'm currently visiting the US, staying in Seattle for the next 10 days or so. I was thinking about visiting the Green Lake Table Tennis Center as it seems like a laid back place that welcomes newcomers, but if any TTDaily member wants to meet up and play some games that would be even better...

oh you should see our recreational leagues... a total of 22 leagues with 14 teams. around a 1000 players of all levels, ages, playing styles and life issues. all volunteer based, the regulations are loose and their enforcement even looser. in fact, the only thing you could consistently expect to...

reminds me of a situation in the local recreational league. it goes like this: in this league the non-playing team members are umpires, the home team umpires the first match, the guests umpire the second etc. 3rd match is being played and the home team is not doing good. their player, an...

i wouldn't say it was out of hand, i'm just saying you made a clumsy sentence that came off like something bad that you didn't intend or mean. you should accept that your words conveyed something else than what you wanted to say when others point it out to you.

you are overanalyzing and overexplaining. your comment with selling cd's and lighters CAME OFF as rude and full of prejudice. i don't care what kind of facts are behind it, and i don't care that you yourself are not full of prejudice, you should have worded it more carefully.

i didn't say the 38mm era was more interesting to watch, but there WERE more styles. the 40mm era was super interesting, but it had less styles. watching boll vs mizutani or ma long vs xu xin was incredible, but as a table tennis lover and a coach i would like our sport to enable more than just...

actually, i think the most boring stylishly universal era is the celuloid 40mm ball era. why? the 38mm ball era had many variations as matt has stated. someone like waldner combined loops, blocks and punches in his attacking game. in the 40mm ball era it was all about the loop. loop loop loop...