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Great post. You are spot on. This is one of those things that internet amateurs will continue to insist upon (probably because they read some other internet amateur say it and took it as truth). Real coaches either Chinese or European are not spending significant focus on how far your elbow is...

Lin Shidong and Iulian Chirita...who has the Chinese forehand and who has the Euro forehand?

As @Zezima wisely stated on another forum not even two weeks ago after annoyingly grammar policing an 11-year-old non-native English speaker who had reached out help, "If you are that vulnerable to getting feedback then look into your childhood."

@NextLevel doesn't know me personally but he probably has enough context clues from public and private discussions that I am a far better and more experienced player and coach than you are. He tried hinting at that in an earlier post but you just missed it or refused to accept it...

You just can't help yourself from shooting yourself in the foot. Good luck.

I actually have a different suggestion. I think you should not try to play an active offensive game. Punishing repeated long pushes, sure, that's a must, but I don't see you as a true offensive player. You mentioned you have been playing for 9 years, hard to change after that much time given how...

Please remember that you told everyone yesterday that they need to stay on topic on threads so please follow the same rules you impose on others. From one year ago Congratulations you just described every table tennis player ever - can do things in training but can't necessarily do them in a...

I thought this point was so obvious that it didn't need to be said...doesn't make OP any less misleading

The point you think you are making here doesn't in any way prove the conclusion you think it does. Try again.

Your incessant ramblings frequently go off topic and include lots of information that nobody needed to know, so you don't get to demand that people provide you the exact form of discussion you want exactly how you want it every time you open a new thread for the latest thought that came through...

Throw angle is, without any doubt, a property of table tennis rubber. Hopefully that clears it up. And how it doesn't matter as presented in the OP is also wrong because even though players can adapt to characteristics of equipment to make it work decently well, those adaptations aren't...

Yeah I should have said that my statement applies to low to middle intermediate amateur players who are incorrectly blaming their faults on equipment, which is a pretty small percentage of people but just something that gets disproportionately blown up on the internet. Like, if you're bad at...

One could apply all the same arguments in OP to the statement that "speed is not a blade property" but I don't think anyone would seriously say that. The idea that technique always beats equipment properties is true. The idea that the differences in equipment really aren't such a big deal that a...

Everything you are saying is accurate but it doesn't contradict the statement that throw angle/trajectory is most definitely a rubber property. Nobody has ever used Dignics 09c and thought that it was a low throw rubber. But yes, the variations in trajectory of a rubber are not the main reason...

Don't really know where to start with all that but if your form breaks down when doing irregular drills then do them until you can figure out how to get your form to not break down. You are really overcomplicating things that don't need to be complicated. But if you want to receive quality...

You probably need specific tips and drills about how to make your footwork better or else that experience seems unproductive. And you can tell a good coach that you don't have high level training partners as part of your regular club and ask them to factor that into their advice.

You would probably be better off traveling to the nearest club with a good coach and good players, and just going all in on training and getting feedback for a few days or a week. You will have to spend money probably. Take the valuable lessons with you. In the end, that will be less time than...

Yeah getting advice on a forum where most people are anonymous is definitely a gamble, but since that is the one he has clearly chosen to take in a very intense way, he would probably be better off not exhausting all the people who have tried to help. I am also not sure if his end goal is to...

The way you are trying to utilize the internet to improve your table tennis game isn't going to be productive and it seems like it hasn't really yielded many results over the past year either. Best you can do is find the people who give advice that has worked for you and ignore the ones who...

With how massive some of the ESN player sponsorship deals are (in terms of direct salary) that have been signed over the last few years, I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the companies end up in really dangerous territory.