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Ok, it really is hard to comprehend, but bear with me: TT associations don't have money for this. I have an example of a team from a fairly prosperous European country. There's a team event: etttc or wtttc or whatever it could be. The guy is asked to come if he wants but he won't play: just a...

I can't read Chinese and I don't follow women's table tennis more than watching wttc and Olympic finals. But from the list provided by zeio it looks to me that "imitating" Miu Hirano was not a path into oblivion for SYS, WMY, CXT. Wang Yidi doesn't look to be hurt either. I have a feeling that...

You see, "they even forced players to change the equipment to better imitate" and "Dima be somebody's imitator for Dang Qiu" suddenly changed to "we are talking about style and strategy" and "they don't really need good players for that". Ok, if you say so.

Not much of an answer after pages of cool stories. So they are there for?.. imitating whom exactly? I failed to grasp the number and the players being imitated. Have you provided them?

Weren't you asked a specific question? How many imitators are allegedly there? Whom do they imitate? And you are dodging this very specific question appealing to human rights. Seriously?

Look, there was this mock Olympics before Tokyo, how many of those 32 (or 64? can't remember) were ghost players? You brought a couple of names and I'm too far from Chinese internals to know them. But if one could see these imitators and they were on a decent level I'd expect them to appear...

It's kind of a normal evolution of the organization, Chinese got more professional attitude than anyone else. It's a little like complaining that they invented and used multiball for training when everyone else was training with a couple of balls and training partners. Both are innovative...

Some players will always be just better than you. "Slow spinny loops" are easily punched through and counterlooped if they are high and convenient. So, if you want to continue with this kind of game, you gotta work on inconvenient placement (depends on the player: may be middle, may be...

I tried the first shuffle step and xiom ft igre. The former were nice, but apparently the sole didn't provide cushioning or whatever, and my feet (arch) started to hurt after playing for a while on hard floors. Xiom shoes are ok, but narrow. I gave up and bought mizuno wave medal: they are wide...

Loop killing loose balls is out of discussion. We are talking about attack into his FH basically. There's no doubt that Harimoto has decent attacking FH, but the counterattack near the table is a problem.

C'mon, ML, FZD, XX, WCQ, LGY play the same style? Yes, they play all-out offensive TT, but that's pretty much all they have in common. I would probably agree that second tier guys are more generic, but these top athletes are easily distinguishable. Yes, obviously, but I don't know what that...

It's a little over the top even for me :) I can filter out Michael's argument, but it's not a serious discussion.

I mean a simple (bio-)mechanical argument: a 14 yo boys and 20 yo young men have different heights, leverages and characteristic stroke timings. So, if they want to continue top-spinning, they have to step away from the table. This does not necessarily translates to Harimoto, but he visibly...

> So to me, Harimoto has himself to blame. It doesnt seem like he's done enough to change his fh. Oh dear :D Sorry, Michael, the way you formulate is just... inappropriate?

You can call it a "base" or a "birth injury". What if quick countering style has a natural limit in men's game? Michael is trying to point to this. And then I heard one coach's opinion that many young players start near the table but cannot maintain this game when they mature due to, basically...

Haha, no, ironically I wouldn't say this about Felix. We don't really disagree here. I think the top Chinese are objectively stronger and their federation does everything to eliminate randomness — you have very well summarized it all. But they are stronger and have to have a good power reserve...

For the argument's sake, it's hard to believe that Japan is unable to organize analytics teams, training partners, etc. Europeans' case is easy, but Japan? It is pretty invested. I can understand that something like having imitating players is unattainable if only for ethical reasons, but...

I was changing BH rubber on my Feel ZX3 (vega tour's younger brother) some time ago and noticed that the outer hinoki ply started delaminating from the rest of the blade around the perimeter. That's a pity, it's one of my favorite blades. I played with it regularly maybe for a couple of years...

Well, I'd say t19 has even denser top sheet than t05. > I can try more softer rubbers around 45 degress but dont want spend money for experience perhaps better change blade. It all boils down to experiments anyway: changing rubbers vs changing blades. But I really mean that you should try...

What rubber do you use? If it's t05 or d05 try their siblings with less dense top sheet: 80 or 64 (or similar from other brands, e.g. xiom vega pro -> vega asia). Vega Asia is not too expensive to try figuring this out. I didn't try Freitas, but Apolonia was a complicated blade for me: it...