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I'm still working to implement my recent learnings, and surprisingly (or perhaps not) I'm making far more progress with my BH. I guess it's because I started from pretty much zero while I have a lot of ingrained habits on the FH side? A few days ago I had a practice session, and for the first...

People have various ways of dealing with tariffs. For example, a vendor could declare $4000 worth of goods for $800, which under the new de minimis rule would be charged $100 of tariffs, equating to effectively a 2.5% tariff. A freight forwarding service would then parse out the $4000 parcel and...

Interested in the Li Hechen vs. Sora match. I think Li might be the next CNT star after HYZ. Hard to beat Sora, of course, but I wonder how much of a fight he can put up.

I play on average 8-10 hours a week. D09c is great for about 2 weeks, after that the sponge loses a bit of spring but remains pretty good for I actually don't know how long because the topsheet will wear out first. The topsheet is solid at least for my level for about 1-2 months, after that it's...

Just watched the match, HOT DAAAAM what a performance by Hugo! IMO this isn't just a one off either, because he didn't just get hot, he changed his play style. I do want to see how he does with other balls but I think he might be the biggest threat to the CNT in the years to come.

It's been cheaper for quite a while now. I got mine a few months ago and the difference was bigger. It seems like they dropped the price for all of them, but less for the Q968 so the price difference is closer now.

Not sure about powerful, but quicker for sure. LSD tends to have more trouble with those who are very quick, like Felix or Harimoto, so Hugo wouldn't match up as well. WCQ IMO needs some mental adjustments. He tries to end points too quickly as he lacks what others on the CNT does, which is...

What a match by HUGO!!!! What a beast of a last point for victory!

I like this new Hugo, holding the table much better.

Oh the tech is ready, it's just a matter of whether WTT wants to implement it. All you need is 6 very basic cameras, 3 on each set, with mounting equipment, and a very basic software which they can hire someone to write based on an open source AI algorithm so it'd be a one-time cost. The cost...

I don't see how that's the case. The ball will fall at the same rate any other object falls. Anyone who's alive for long enough to play competitive TT at any level should have seen enough falling objects to visualize the entire trajectory of the ball once it's tossed.

That's easy, just let the TRR call faults.

To be frank, asking players to retire is like the mildest shade I've seen thrown around on sports message boards. That dude has no idea just how much vile sports fans can levy on players around the world :ROFLMAO: If I had to guess, they're SYS fans and they see KM as less of a threat to their...

If you look at TTR faults, it's almost always the head obstructing the ball before the contact. IMO it's actually very easy for the contact to be visible to both corners while passing behind the head before contact. This change in rules would have the least impact on the game while...

Yes, the second character in Miwa's first name sounds identical to the character for carton/box, and it's the same as the second character in Tomokazu's first name (oddly I guess they're pronounced differently in Japanese?). So that's why she's called the Small Carton. I think they should...

Why do you have to ethnicity bait with every post? There are plenty of Chinese fans who are calling for LGY to retire too. China has a lot of fans, some of them quite vociferous, and they tend to be the loudest ones. It's not that different from any other sport. I get that you're very...

Had a training session yesterday. Swelling has gone down on my foot and I can walk now (couldn't walk for 4 days!), but it still hurts so I mainly blocked, practiced some stationary BH practice, and then a few practice matches. Surprisingly I was able to put up a pretty good fight even without...

Lodging is probably not free though, and Macao isn't as cheap as mainland China. If they needed to self-fund the trip they might not have the money to stay there.

Wasn't it because of Hayata said something about the Kamikaze museum? Hard to fault the fans for using history against her when she brings up history herself, isn't it? If Timo Boll said he'd like to visit a museum honoring SS soldiers, how do you think this board would react? I suppose that...

Lol so true, my teammate injured his knee probably meniscus, in the same game! Broke my leg 2 years ago playing soccer, and meniscus many yrs ago doing the same, so maybe I should indeed consider stopping....