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You're exactly right about me, I don't want to accept the solution and I just want to hit the ball, and yeah I repeatedly act out that stupid sequence of doing the same failing shot, over and over. Well I'm trying my best now. I think I hit my rock bottom moment and ready to just obediently...

Yeah I think I just need to grind and learn these separate techniques. I'm going to borrow a LP racket and have someone push block to me for the next few weeks. I just want to attack these pips and send them home. I'll consider the low-spin loop too. In fact I'm watching a Pechpong vid right now...

It's not the guessing that I struggle with, I know what spin will come back, but it comes back at lower rpm than I'm used to. Even my friend says every time I try to attack his back spin from the pips, "there's not as much spin on it as you think there is." Although I think you're right about...

There's a LP player at my club who I just can't beat. For the past 3 years I've struggled, and gotten close. I've gotten maybe 4 matches to the decider and 1 win in 3 years, and we've played how many, 50+ matches? His rating is USATT 1560 and mine is 1450. I beat 1500 players all the time that...

The point is to know the spin coming back. If you serve dead, then you don't have any confusion what it is. Low-level pips players rely on creating confusion as to what spin is on the ball. You usually don't keep track of the spin you put on the ball, you do it automatically with muscle memory...

I'm pretty good at playing against pips at the lower level and rather than complicate things, I break it down to simples rules. Suppose we're pushing back and forth - if I see pips twice in a row, I just whip it. If it comes back, then I do the safe thing and just push backspin. Make sure you...

Very interesting, thanks for your input.

It's so weird, the link in both mine and your earlier one are wrong. Your new link does work now. I wonder why they keep changing it.

Yeah I guess so. But you don't have to be so negative. He's a good challenge and practice for top US players like Zhou Xin, Jishan Liang, and Nikhil Kumar. He's also training people at his own club, I guess his way of giving back. btw, this discussion is off-topic. This thread is about whether...

He plays professionally in ITTF representing Ukraine. Prob more money in the US for him because he wins every tournament (except the last 2) + coaching. And apparently he even has a club now that I assume he collects fees for. Congrats to him winning $10k today though.

I've always been curious how Craig Bryant from Tom Loziak's channel compares to the TTD team. What level do you guys think TTD players are in terms of USATT rating? I've seen them play, and players like Naphong look so strong, like 2600. Can anybody give me an estimated USATT rating for each of...

Just to remind you, WR is completely meaningless because you get points based on whether you've won ITTF tournaments. If you stop playing for ITTF, then your ranking will drop to the bottom, but your skill level will be the same. Only the top 3 Chinese players ever get to compete, so none of the...

I just came fresh out of watching Lily Zhang vs Amy Wang in the women's finals of the US Open and literally at the end of it, my heart was racing and I was just incredibly crushed and sad that Lily lost again, in the decider, after being up 10-7 in the 6th game. Ping pong is literally of the...

There're a lot of reasons why he lost the first game. Gozo mentioned unfamiliarity with playstyle so she won the first game for one. But ultimately, as Scarfed Garchomp was saying, he was joking around and saving energy. Our humble club of a few 1400-1800s in my city was recently blessed by a...