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Great video. Thanks Dan. It has motivated me to keep practicing even harder :)

I've been using Hurricane Neo 3 for about 5 years and the smell never seemed that bad. I only notice it if I bring it up to my face. I definitely can't notice it by just being in the room of one being opened new. Am I weird? Haha.

When I had some coaching, I much preferred two shorter sessions. However, travel cost and time were the reasons why I went with a longer one.

I think I bought the app when it first came out but haven't used it since. Looking forward to when it's back out on android. There seems to be a lot more you can do now. I downloaded a random APK of it online, but it doesn't seem to work.

I liked how one of the coaches I know had balls half colored in black and half in white in such a way that you can very easily see how much the ball in spinning and in what direction when practicing serves. He made like 40 of them.

Was that for junior high school too? If she's 12, she'll be in junior high school and the website didn't list a table tennis club for junior high. Also, I got the impression he was looking for a club, not an actual school. You'll have to enter the school and attend all their regular classes too...

I think a lot of table tennis is about making a tactical choice, then pulling it off if the conditions are favorable. For the first one, Liang might have been thinking about taking a long serve into the backhand with the forehand, and it paid off. He might have tactically been thinking of doing...

Common teaching practice here in Japan, too. I've seen some of my students do that.

Awhile back my students were playing in over 40 degrees Celsius heat with close to 100% humidity. I felt like dying just being there. We were on the second level of the school gymnasium. All the hot air was rising up to us. Heatstroke is a real issue in these conditions. Often it's the loss of...

I'll go with Rumgay, too. The silhouette does look like him.

I use that combination (unboosted) and you really need to use your body to generate any real speed, so if your goal is to force yourself to use more of your body in your strokes, it's pretty good. I'm always told my balls are really slow, though. You'll have carbon in yours, I think. So that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1IrXobAvII Not sure if you need to be in Japan to watch it, but it works for me.

The girl at 0:35 blasting those forehands is Miku Matsushima, Sora Matsushima's younger sister. She's 5.5 years old now. Crazy!!

It would be nice to hear more opinions on this. I was always a believer in having your arm more extended to generate more power, but so many people where I live, including high level coaches, tell their students to keep their arm close to their body. I hear people say things like sandwiching a...

Hello fellow Amicus Pro owners! I'm wondering if it's possible to program the robot to do the middle corner exercise (one to middle, one random to backhand or forehand, repeat)? The closest I can think of is using the S1 and S2 serves as the forehand and backhand, having slot 3 as the middle...