Recent content by suds79

That feels like an easy one to explain right? The Chinese Super League is tougher.

He had legal equipment by the rules. There's no almost about it. Almost isn't cheating. Players today "almost" hide their serves but what really matters is if it's actually hidden or not and if it gets called. He's absolutely, by essentially everyone who follows the sport, considered one of the...

I help run our local tt club here in the states and I find the TTDSL pretty entertaining. I like the comradery the guys feel playing in a team. To my knowledge, we don't really have team leagues here in the states and TT is very much an isolated, work on your own craft game. That's fine and I...

I am contemplating some sort of glue method. While super glue is thin and would for sure practically weld those plastic parts together, problem is that when a net eventually wears out, I'd like to not destroy the post and or cap that I 3d print. I need a glue that's removable but can hold good...

I run our local small week club here in the states. One of the biggest rackets in all of table tennis are flimsy net post caps that break or fall out of the posts and you have to buy a completely new new post set for around $70 give or take up or down depending on what you're looking for...

Got the ever elusive 3-1 victory on the best young player at our club. This was nice as he will quickly become the 2nd best player at our club in probably less than a year. Here he had been serving down the line a lot. I was planning on stepping around that down the line serve and forehanding...

Welcome. So TT is a life-long sport so don't worry about being 16 playing for the first time. I started when I was in college. Played some buddies there. Then played occasionally in my mid 20s at times. Didn't start playing weekly at a club until I was 30. And all that time prior was shakehand...

I should note that I was really bummed to not beat the last guy. Of the group of 4, only the top 1 advances to the final playoff. The guy who beat me took 2nd in the 41-59 and he got to play the guy who took 1st in A singles. That would have been fun just to have that experience to play him...

So I've played TPB most of my whole life. Unfortunately I'm 42 and my level of athleticism or movement isn't the same as when I was in my 20s so thus trying to get better at RPB. Certainly there were a higher % of long serves to my BH which i pushed or chopped where as if it was a club night I...

Well here it is. The recap of all my singles matches from 8/14. Win or lose. It's in here. What happened? Guess you'll have to watch to find out. All matches condensed down to a 8:45 video. PS - Still trying to gain confidence with my RPB. I've been committed to it for probably 2 months not...

Got a tournament coming up in a week. Thankfully I'm playing some of my best TT I think I ever have so I'll be ready. Been a long journey but what has helped me the most as of recent are these things. 1) Stop switching styles & equipment. Yes I know this should be obvious but I've played just...

Haven't you heard in Jeppe? In today's binary thinking society, you can only be one or the other. Furthermore, if you're for one thing, you must by rule hate the other. That's how it works. :p ps - Congrats to Ma Long. Nobody can touch what he has achieved.

Quick tidbit about my game: Left handed traditional penholder. Play inverted on the FH side and over a number of years have played sometimes inverted on the RPB. Mostly long pips on the RPB side (1.0 DHS C8) where I'd chop and/or twiddle when necessary. While I like some of the tricky aspects...

So I have some thoughts on this as it's a recent thing going on in my game but first I'd like to address a different question. Based on your OP, I count 7 coaches and/or pros who have told you to do something different than what you are doing. I don't think there's an experienced forum member...

I've tried Falco long before and I'll use it if I find a rubber's sponge particularly hard just to soften it but I don't do it regularly. While boosting is nice, I think it's a little overrated. Yes it helps. But we're talking 5% at most. So I don't regularly boost and it plays fine.