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It proves blahness' point actually. The greatest of all time has beaten an average Joe of tt in the final. Big deal. The average Joe of tt reaches the final with pips on FH — that's serious. I gotta admit, I myself think pips have a limit which is lower than inverted and it has been shown in...

Like that he's the world champion on top of that? I mean you want to prove the point, statistical anomaly and all that but you're stretching this a little too far.

Moving goalposts at its finest here. The whole discussion was about "pips" vs "inverted" AND "equal training"/"abilities". Losing to Ma Long, mind you the greatest of all time, in the final of WTTC is no argument at all. Destroying all his real peers on the way to the final is. > How many other...

Wasn't CNT playing pips for decades before being crushed by swedes on the verge of nineties? Chinese could've/would've figured out the best training, the best tactics against inverted and yet they switched to what's become modern looping game. I don't know much history but what did Liu Guoliang...

Are we simply going to ignore Falck-2019 here?

It was provincial orange sponge + 3 layers of haifu yellow oil.

It is very much about equipment. The blade and the rubbers impose the playing style, there's no way around it. There is no point in looping with pips or smashing/driving with inverted. Anecdotal, but I once tried an inch-thick balsa blade with short pips and I could straightforwardly drive and...

There's finally a guy translating Fang Bo's videos on YouTube. The last one is about pushing short, FH and BH.

If it's short and not too deep into BH (up to the middle of the BH half of the table) then I push these with my FH into short FH. One guy manages to push well with BH (I find this stroke complicated), but does this along the diagonal and it's an invitation for a chiquita. If it's a long topspin...

Not as bad as Filus, but still very shameful.

Kids just don't get punished. A few days ago I've seen a video of Fang Bo explaining backhand loop: "You know it's like you slap… Like my mom used to slap me for mischiefs".

Does Chen Weixing train Levenko? CWX is the national coach but did he have anything to do with Levenko's personality development? To me attitude is a common problem of many European zoomer players, tbh. There's Levenko, there was Serdaroglou making embarrassing mess in Bundesliga few years ago...

There's a guy who plays with me from time to time and he learned this idea that he needs a slower rubber to properly grip the ball, "to really roll it on the rubber" — all this. But he already has a great loop: very spinny and fast, and this loop is defined by his stroke mechanics, rather than a...

I wonder how this translates onto unknown opponents though?

France seems to invest in TT lately: https://pingcenter-gvhtt.com/en As for the Lebruns, I heard them being compared to Mbappe of TT fwiw.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You could as well be discussing that the sky is blue. It's interesting and all that, but. To me what T's"china bad"TT is doing is trying to belittle these enormously dedicated players from CNT. I tried to point out earlier that staying on top for so many years and being literally...

Like in every other sport? A cyclist friend of mine was literally laughing his a** off at "Armstrong's fight against cancer" making him win two mountain stages in a row. Google Norwegian skiing asthma team. It's literally everywhere. What China does in TT is not even that outstanding.

Did you play with both Acoustic and w968? Could you compare the two in terms of FH feel? I like acoustic's FH very much with boosted Chinese rubbers, but I would certainly like more speed.

Reading truly is an art.

It is not. Neither it is what I called an urban legend.