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I didn't say that :rolleyes: . Listen I don't know about other countries, in France, they only go to the school to recrute players , but children play in clubs , there are detection tournaments , detected talents may be admitted to these speical instituts "pole espoir" which translates roughly...

Serious question: do you think Calderano is anything les than the chinese in terms of physical fitness ?

My original post was about specifically the national DHS rubbers which are not available to the rest of the world, it gives the short receive advantage but also the powerfull topspins needed at that level. Commercial chinese rubbers gives you only the short receive. Thats the whole concept...

Thanks guys for the input ...But specially those from the US I think you are too focused on this numbers/statistics idea because of the sparsity of players in your areas. I get that. But many of the criteria you mentionned are satisfied in other asian countries (Japan, Korea) and also in Europe...

I don't want to brag but I called it months ago, and now Butterfly developed 09C and Ovtcharov wo FZD using it and talked about it later on.

well if you can reach it with your backhand , chiquita the hell out of it. I assume it is a short serve on your forehand side

I would love to see any evidence of this? it is beyond me that he would make any technical changes now ...

I think FZD got to know early on that it is ML and XX who will get the two olympic tickets. Others on the CNT also improved but his general vibe is more like "whatever why should I even care".

Here we go again, one of these topics that keeps appearing over and over again. To be honest, I don't even think about this subject but the other day it just came to me and it was a moment of Ahaaaaa !! that happened while I was watching a match. Here is my argument and bare with me to the end...

If no one buy this sh*t it will eventually disappear

This will defiitely affect my chequita I've been practicing for over a year now

Don't just hit the ball over and over again , try to bring him down to the table by giving a short ball and then hit him back again.

So may be we let him answer that ? because you raised finally the same question. Com'on like my post so that Dan chooses it :-P . I'm a low level player and even on that level I'm not known for my backhand topspin but however I'm known for the backhand flip (people who played me before try...

Please ask him on how he has one of the best backhands of all time, but still the chequita (backhand fllip) is not a fundamental part of his game (I really didn't see him use it even once)

Interesting still but I thought it was more tactical than this. The boy didn't know what to do against a legend and the father had to say something about it

I found this on Youtube. I don't speak japanese and I would normally just rely on the auto-generated subtitles. However on this one, at one point 23:48 there was what seems to be like a deep difference in opinions between Harimoto and his father on how to handle Timo Boll. From the looks of it...

I get what Der_Echte is coming from. My experience though suggests that equipments have non-negligible impact on your game. Just two recent revelations: 1. I changed the blade from Tibhar something to Butterfly Primorac, since the latter has a thinner diameter, my serves became more...

Agree !! On some other footage (that I'm not sure I'm allowed to share) it seems I apply more spin to it. It is just not consistent at all, sometimes I just pivot and I use it to push only and some times I win tight matches with it like this match point below, for now I'm just counting on time...

I'm a beginner myself though, if you read earlier my first topspin ever was 3 years ago. But if a video against better players should incite some comments on my game I will upload one soon

Still 8, but I didn't play for sometime and when I played again was out of practice. I can't win over 12, and I win 11 and 12 only sometimes.