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It's interesting that the coach in Tom's video mentioned boxing, My old Pilates trainer told us that Pilates was designed for Boxing as part of the training. whether this is 100% true I'm not sure. These days many Pro's in Tennis and now it's creeping more into Table tennis GRUNT when playing a...

Flight of ball was a sort of floating / chop shape, sometimes a similar stroke can be played that has a very straight angled trajectory ie straight line from bat to table, a fast attacking ball, a rare stroke and difficult to get right against a top spin ball. I've only ever pulled it off during...

I was thinking how you could adjust to get an impact point a little more towards the end of the blade, the last 3rd, maybe give yourself a little more room, but I think it's more of a case of hitting balls!! How to ensure you are hitting the right spot ?? if you have a spare rubber protector...

Double Fish V40+ is another good ball, maybe similar to Double Happiness balls?? Not sure as I haven’t used the DH balls!! Tried the Double Fish ball out of curiosity, I like them more than XFS ball.

ONE OF THESE!!!!

Lets hope that Der doesn't put this on his Christmas list!!!!! things could get real messy, real quick!!!!!!!

Yeah!!! perhaps a very securely bolted down exercise bike!!!

Hi Der, Still getting over some knee issues myself, my physio said I should get on a bike, she said it's very good for strengthening and keeping movement of the joint etc. This is probable more for issues in the knee, not sure about muscular issues etc. Regarding knee supports, she said I could...

Pre covid I had some pretty basic serves with not much variation. The UK lockdowns meant that everyone had plenty of time on their hands to do nothing!! Having a table in the garage meant I could learn some serves!! I learnt the following serves FH pendulum FH reverse pendulum FH hook/jab...

Hi Carl, Yeah that’s the one!! Thanks for embedding it, haven’t got a clue how that’s done!!!!!! Thought I did well to get the link posted!!!!

Both could move down the list, for me Dragon Grip more than RZ, check post #108!!!! Remember I have NOT tried all the rubbers. From (and including) Tibhar K1 down I have only used C2 and D09C

Only 1 small issue I noticed was sometimes there was some ball slippage on FH top spin, rubber was clean, so likely my technique, but with RZ it happens less often.

Regarding serves, there are 2 main types when looking where the ball bounces - 1) symmetrical - (or very close to) simplified, where on your side of the table the ball bounces, it will then bounce at the same position on opponents side, REGARDING DISTANCE not direction (left or right). So a...

https://youtu.be/xUz5xEG8o7Q Hopefully this will be correct!!!!!

Brs and Carl’s posts are really solid!! One of Der_Echte’s favourite troublemakers is Matt Hetherington, he did a great video about ‘what is a good serve?’ Definitely worth a look.

When is a block not a block?? When it’s a chop block!!! looks nothing like a chop!! This ‘back spin flick’ looks more like a flick than a ‘chop block’ looks like a chop!!!🥩

Many thanks ttarc!!!

The quickness of the hand deceives the eye!!! is a backspin serve with fake motion a topspin serve???!!!!!! It is when you block it into the table😂🤣

For a long time it was H3 FH, T05 BH for a lot of players, one bouncy one not!!!! One tacky one not!!! They didn’t twiddle to keep the tacky rubber in play on both FH and BH for short game touch play. They twiddled to bring T05 into play on the FH when trying to kill off a rally after forcing...

Check TI Longs channel, there’s a vid on the variations of BH flick, one of which is a back spin flick, it’s ‘sick’ to use a modern term!!!