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Not cool. Notice how Timo bodyblocks the other guy so he can't reach the ball? He stands there like a linebacker, challenging the hapless fellow to bump him. Why did he have to charge the net after hitting the ball? Boo Timo, boo! Terrible sportsman! ;););););)

Before I say lack of money... Just how much money do players win at the big tournaments and opens?

I think table tennis should go the way of chess / boxing! Table tennis match and a boxing match between opponents following it!

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Speaking more generally... medium pips usually reduce the spin. Meaning you will receive more dead balls or balls with drastically less spin. If they block your top spin, expect a relatively spinless ball to come back. Same with a push. Medium pips don't usually reverse the spin too much, but...

Wu Yang (best female defender of all time!?) Kim Kyung Ah Zhou Xintong (interesting chop-block style) Zhang Yining (blocky blocky!) Jose Luis Machado/Des Douglas/Kenta/Waldner (inverted blockers) Joo Se Hyuk THE Pushblocker (anybody that polemical is worth noting!)

If anyone was curious, I've been testing out spinlord gipfelsturm in 1.8... and bam! It seems to be about the perfect rubber for my purposes. Classified as a "long pip" but quite rigid and stiff in the pimples. They're not bendable really, at all. Nothing like a curl rubber where you can thumb...

You talk about amateurs and then compare them to chess professionals? lol... I've been to a good many table tennis tournaments, and the serious players are perhaps 90% of the time, anything but fat! More of the rec hall/hobby players are the tubguts -- generally older men. You can find that...

I need just a little bit more spin... and then down the rabbit? lol, yep! I was trying out spinpips 21, and it seems to do most everything I want. You can do the open face punch block kind of shot to return back spin shots with. Not as easily as with the anti, but still doable. And it can also...

Back to experimenting with the pips here... currently, I am looking for a pip that is very good at attacking pushes/chops, using the relative "flat" stroke. I have been using anti/LP and really liked that aspect of them, as I don't have much of a loop. However, I'm thinking of going to a MP or...

I like the sardius along with fast ones such as the garaydia T5000. Top end players probably don't like them for the lack of "feel" and supposed dwell time. My footwork is pretty bad and I don't swing too big most of the time. So for me, it helps get speed/power/depth on little movement, lol...

Samsonov looking like the party chaperone :p

I think even more comical in the final, is that his opponent is named Cho! So every shout is like a direct call out, lol... CHO!

You can do a modified 'punch-block' against those heavy top spins. Where you basically slap down on the ball, instead of doing a passive block. This will help keep it on the table. Let me see if I can find a video --

So for the most part, killing spin with inverted also entails killing the speed? Soft blocks and pull back blocks all serve to reduce the spin, but also the speed from what I know. Whereas something like a short/medium pip, you could smash a top spin ball and remove spin while adding speed. I...

Or he could ask for help from people who know how and cut down on the useless time wasting!? For the question at hand, I always thought that was more rubber dependent. Such as certain medium pips will return 'dead' balls, if you're after that style. Going from short to long pips, through that...

That's my problem too! I have a tendency to do more 'fun' styles, even to my own detriment... people ask why! Why don't I just hit this or that shot for an easier win. But at the end of the day, I'm a garbage amateur player! What would winning a few more games, even a state championship get me...

The tibhar mx-p or el-p or whatever other letters they use, that series of rubbers, is also pretty good for cheaper alternatives to tenergy. Not quite the same in characteristics, but still useful. I think the donic stuff, like bluefire and JP, aren't spinny enough compared to tenergy or...

What's your rating? Under 2000? Then inverted will be fine! You can chop with tenergy in 1.8 or the FX series. The old school chop rubbers (tackiness drive, butterfly chop 2, juic 999 elite defense, etc.) aren't really tensored, so they have much less catapult in them. Reflectoid in 2.0 even...

I've always been told it was behind the end line, and you could stand off to the side as far as you want. So it basically meant, no serving over the table. As in you can't reach forward to do a dribble bounce that lands half an inch over the other side of the net.