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I think raising the height of the net is an interesting idea, and fairly feasible in practice. The biggest effects would be to make the serve and short game less effective. Serves and pushes would be slower and sit up higher, making it more effective to play a bit further from the table. The...

Watching FZD's latest match against Redzimski, it looks like he was using Zyre on forehand.

The emotions from China at the end show how difficult this run was. France and Japan especially seems like they should be able to consistently challenge the CNT mens team going forward. However, while this team was certainly more vulnerable than any other in recent memory, I wonder if the group...

I have a very different interpretation of this post. We have a player with likely quite poor technique who thinks his equipment is the reason he can’t keep blocks on the table. If he thinks the solution is getting a different rubber, it is entirely possible he is not examining/experimenting...

20%!? More like 5% at most. Amateurs will log on to this forum and see ~6 pages of thread talking about D09c vs H3N and think getting good at table tennis requires forming an opinion on this. For the level of amateur we're talking about (<1800 USATT), there are so many glaring technical...

You have a strong tendency to over-think and over-analyze things. With all of those thoughts and ideas in your head, it's simply impossible to relax and actually play well. My honest advice is, the next time you go to practice or play, try to forget about any ideas of what you think you're...

Others have made good comments and suggestions. IMO at this point you don’t need to worry so much about minutiae of your swing from your shoulder and down. If I were coaching you, I'd try to get you to focus much more on your lower body and core, to find the feeling of being light on your feet...

Rubbers aren’t meant to maintain their performance for that long, and that’s OK. The material just doesn’t work that way. Imagine a rubber band…if you stretch a rubber band to its limit repeatedly, it’s going to break down pretty fast. Even if it’s just sitting in the drawer it will oxidize and...

Movement is about more than just getting from point A to point B. Recovery/regaining balance and dropping/gathering your weight for the next shot all starts from the ground up. Even if you're never going to be as fleet and fluid as a smaller person, you should definitely be capable of moving...

Pros absolutely do not stand still and only start moving once they're about to hit the ball. Making late adjustments to the ball is not a bad thing. The problem is not making early movements to recover, reset, and put yourself in good position to take advantage of the next shot, so that you end...

What I see: you feel as though you're struggling with positioning because you're not moving during the rally. When you do move, you usually start moving late, e.g., after your opponent has already hit the ball, right before you are going to hit the ball, or even sometimes as you are hitting the...

I don't have any specific advice that other haven't already given, but I just wanted to chime in that the premise of this thread is a prime example of why I would advise beginning/developing players to avoid spending time on this forum as much as possible. Spending a lot of time reading this...

The biggest equipment mistake amateurs can make is thinking it matters way more than it does. It's probably not that common a mistake overall, but it does appear very prevalent among the subset of amateurs who spend a lot of time on online forums like this one -- to the point people start...

Lol go touch some grass dude. It's Hugo's second match officially with Joola and he's 0.500.

Hey @Matt Hetherington, I was wondering if you can elaborate on how JOOLA (or your manufacturing partners) achieves consistently heavier blades for your pro players compared to the commercial market blades? I'm also curious about the market research and product design decisions that go on at...

Apparently LJH was using a blade with what looked like an Outerforce ALC handle recently. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/the-pros-equipment-discussion.12497/post-554979 That, along with the top ply on this new signature blade looking like ayous (it’s definitely not limba or...

I experienced something similar to OP recently. Unfortunately I didn’t document the batch number but I probably have the old rubber lying around somewhere. Purchased directly from Butterfly via megaspin. This particular piece of black D09c had a visibly different topsheet appearance to others...

It's impossible to know what is going on inside someone else's head, but to me Fastow's story seems plainly self-serving. I find it very hard to believe he didn't understand at the time he would get in very serious trouble if people discovered what he was doing. Even if we accept his...

You'd have a good argument they were fraudulent, because he pled guilty to and served years in prison for fraud. Either he had the worst lawyers in the world, or at least some of the things he did were serious crimes. I had no idea that Fastow has now reinvented himself as an ethics speaker...

Enjoyed the review but I have to admit I LOLed at the end when Kanak said "The side of equipment, gluing, and all things related to material is an incredibly vast and under-discussed topic in table tennis"