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For anyone who thinks speed glue is safe, you are completely insane. Look up trichloroethylene, toluene, xylene or the other substances used in speed glue. Inhaling that on a daily basis is extremely harmful. Look at the ITTF timeline when they first were going to ban speed glue. Then...

I do not know if you are in the red or black (you are the guy in black), but after watching the 1st point if I were coaching either of you I would scream at you for not looping long pushes. Is your ultimate goal to be 1125 or 2000+? If you think you are limited to 1125 then push away for all...

Personally boosting doesn't make much difference and I don't care about. It definitely isn't like the dramatic difference speed glue made.

Do you know who Big John McCarthy is? The next time he serves a wet ball, you scream "I'm ready! Are you ready? Let's get it on!" then you jump on the table, over the net, stay low, jump into him, take him to the ground, work until you take his back, apply a rear naked choke, choke him out...

I don't think he died alone. He definitely had a lot of friends in New York. He also wasn't forgotten. Walk into any SPIN and you can see videos about him. His picture is also everywhere.

I knew Marty and actually hit with him a few times. He was a character. I think the movie will be entertaining but do not expect it to revolutionize table tennis in the USA.

Call me crazy, it won't be the first time and definitely not the last, but I think the CNT women's team viewed their match against the USA men's team in the spirit of friendship and not trying to be embarrassing. I also seem to remember Xu Xin being involved in a doubles match against team USA...

One of my friends was on the CNT and ranked in the top 5 in the world. She said the men could give the top women around 7 points in a game to 21 and still win without taking it too seriously. Another friend was on the Army Team in China and said Liu GuoLiang could beat the entire women's team...

Believe it or not, some people on a province team or even the CNT B team have to pay to be on the team. They don't make any money. If they do well in tournaments or get tournament appearance fees, but usually the better players take up a lot of the potential payout.

I guess this is a lesson to coaches all around the world: do not upset Harimoto or show disrespect either purposefully or inadvertently. He played out of his mind in the finals.

I find it funny that Bobrow implied something to the effect that Kanak took 17 months off or however long his suspension was. Certainly he wasn't allowed to play in any competitions but obviously he was still training 8 hours a day. With that being said, Kanak keeps improving and playing...

I also don't think people are mocking him. I think people based on their experience are telling him that if he truly wants to be top 50, this is what people who achieved that goal did and here is what people did who tried and didn't make it. If he said he wanted to be on the US national...

Well according to him, yes. Try not to show it or do anything silly, but it is ok to be really annoyed after playing poorly.

One of my professional player friends once said that if you aren't extremely mad after every practice and each loss, then you have given up the fight to try to improve. Also: some serves work great against one player and are useless against others. This even happens at the pro level. If...

I think Kallberg recently got married.

One thing that can just cap a players potential is vision problems. Under 2200 or maybe 2400 a player can control things to such an extent, they can predict where the ball is going. These problems can be dealt with and to some extent ignored. The higher the rating the more unexpected things...

KTT should check the truthfulness of statements before posting about them. Maybe he was told by his coach and didn't check. Also, even if Liu GuoLiang decided tomorrow to start coaching him 24/7 tomorrow, he will still have the issues everyone has already mentioned: who can he practice with...

The legendary hard hitting table tennis star Heavyspin went from 2100ish to 2400ish by switching to a heavy bat. Maybe he will comment on this thread about how it helped him improve.

I don't think anyone is trying to destroy KTT's dream. We are just trying to say "Based on what we know, this is what you need to do to break in the top 50 because that is pretty much what everyone in the past has done." The advice I give is exactly the same advice I would give any American...

I must apologize. Upon further inspection, the story of the 12 year old kid who broke into the top 20 was incorrect. He actually started much earlier than that. So now I can say I never heard of anyone who broke into the top 20 who claims to have started playing at age 12 or even 11.