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I think the rating system in the US is very problematic. You can get readjusted or not readjusted arbitrarily. If you have no rating and play one match and lose, you are assigned a rating of the player you lost to minus 10 points. So if someone off the street played Kanak Jha and lost 11-0...

Tahl's opponent (Xi Sheng) is rated close to 2800 and the only reason he is rated that low is that he didn't play enough in the USA when he was visiting here. He was undefeated during his stay. He played for the Hubei team in the Chinese national championships which placed 3rd: He even won...

That blade handle looks awesome!

Amen! I am currently watching a player, who was formerly ranked top 5 in the world, coach their young child. They mainly feed multi-ball and say very, very little. Kids don't have a lot of control over their bodies and just naturally find the best ways to do things for their body type. The...

Can someone explain the Yoo Nam Kyu resignation to me? It sounds like he wanted to determine the Olympic team through many (infinite?) competitions and someone recorded him? What? And he got into trouble?????

I watched the video and think that it can be useful for a lot of players. There are 10,000,000 ways to hit the ball and what is optimal for you might not be the optimal motion predicted by physics or math. Even if your motion is optimized using physics, how much better is it and can you...

It happens to Wang Chen all the time in the USA. So much so that she has basically abandoned the serve and now uses the shovel serve when she plays.

If the ball is long force yourself to loop, even if you miss. You will probably lose a lot in the short term but eventually beat these people after some time. You can also vary the spin by pushing heavy then pushing no-spin. This can force the opponent to miss as reading spin is not easy...

Even in the video he said he was hanging out in the club a lot from ages 8 to 14 and already the number one (I guess junior) player in Rio when he was 13. Who knows if he had any experience playing before that? If you are serious about your goal, you need to play 6 hours a day minimum and...

One thing I would want to ask Ovtcharov is how he does his backhand push. Why does he do it that way? Many pros try to just push with their forehands but Ovtcharov seems to have no problem pushing with the backhand and his technique is a bit different than other pros.

Great Video! I think it is really valuable to hear the pros talk about what they think about when they play and listening to the advice they give.

This question is hard to answer. Years ago, it was thought that players peaked when they were young in their early 20s. With the success of Timo Boll and some others, some players are playing extremely well close to 40. I think a lot depends on the player's style and their ability to stay...

I was told he can make a lot of money playing in big corporate tournaments in China. That is what he wants to do apparently as opposed to playing internationally.

If you have very bad sweaty hands there are two popular solutions: 1) Get a prescription based aluminum topical solution and apply it daily. 2) Get an Iontophoresis device and use it daily. I would strongly advise against #1 as there are health consequences to having too much aluminum in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5Khh_e5BI

My friend said it was a new different version of H3 national. It looked exactly the same as the other normal sheets of H3 national she had.

One of my friends was trained as a pro in China as a kid. She is friends with one of the former women's world champions from China. I cannot remember which one. When my friend was in China she bought a lot of H3 national and the former world champ gave her 1 sheet of a new type of red H3...

If you watch the 87-91 worlds, you will see such a crazy variety in styles. Some players would retrieve like Applegren, some would play like maniacs hyped up on 1000 cups of coffee like Lindh, there were backhand oriented players like Grubba and the Mazunovs, some of the Chinese like Xu Zengcai...

These are excellent videos! Thanks! In the video posted above, Ma Long is using his wrist as he loops. Jang Woojin is exaggerating a bit in his demonstration to let people see how the wrist moves clearly, but Ma Long definitely has a wristy type loop.

Anytime these guys play against each other: Ma Long vs Zhang Jike Ma Long vs Bojan Tokic