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Good for you posting video. I agree that you play very well after such a short time. You have nice feeling and your forehands are spinny enough. This one game (small sample) has all the hallmarks of a usatt 14-1500 (you) playing against a 12-1300 opponent. All serves are long, and most points...

Tabletennis11.com is way better value for Americans than our domestic websites. This week you could get a Donic Waldner senso v1 blade and a sheet of xiom vega Europe for $52 combined. That leaves the other $50 in your budget for shoes, clothes, balls, or glue, whatever else you need. Spend...

Roughly 2500 is in a way simply shorthand for very, very strong. That's a top 25 player in the US. But probably he is better than that, like around 2650. 150 points at that level is a massive quality difference, and 2650 is top five in the US. It's really not possible to see those levels on...

The benchmark for cheap Chinese rubber is whatever Iskandar Taib thinks about it. He is the Man for cheap Chinese rubbers.

Speak for yourself. I have short pips and I need carbon for stiffness. Could use a clipper or clone, but seven-ply are harder to loop with than a composite blade. It's not a fast setup with hurricane 8 fh, and my very weak self swinging it.

I don't see it on Aliexpress yet. I wonder how different 9 will be from 8-80? Colors are nice.

Gozo, do not feel bad. Everyone is slow at learning to receive. It is the hardest skill to learn and hardest to practice. I get what your coach is saying about sidespin. You can't return it with a push. In that respect it is exactly like topspin. For the long-run it will be best to...

Watching a very nice U15 GS SF from Berlin (match starts about an hour in), and noticing that Yoo Ye-rin (in blue) stays loaded for backhand always. After she plays a forehand she reloads immediately for bh again. Her forehand is still good. She has built the transition to a fh bat angle into...

To me it really doesn't look that bad. Random is so much harder than a known drill like 2 bh - 2 fh or whatever. It's not twice as hard, it's 10x harder. One simple thing I think could help is to reset your bat angle to neutral on recovery. You do come back to a neutral position between...

Yes it is actually necessary.

Buy more blades.

When your brain instructs your body to touch the ball with the bat, your body does that by any means necessary. Your brain may also say "Body! And with a straight arm too! Touch the ball with my arm straight." But if the distance from your shoulder to the ball is not the same as the length...

The only lesson from this match is he's a lot better than you. When you play with too big of a level gap you shouldn't really take away anything to work on. It's interesting just to see how good players are. But when you are effectively dead off the serve and receive every point it's not...

Wait another six weeks and update the post. If your rubber is not dead by then we will all be on aliexpress searching for Taiji booster.

Or if you don't want to deal with a foam roller, buy yourself a massage gun. They are lovely.

NextLevel said it best: "Ratings don't play matches."

You are making a mental category error here. In any match you are either playing to win, or playing for practice. Always know which one it is going into the match. If you are playing to win, don't try new strokes or tactics you have been working on. Use your best shots and play patterns you...

My vote for one change you could easily make is Watch the ball. Like really look at the ball during the point. Don't just see it in the context of the whole table and court, your opponent, your entire field of vision. Look directly at the ball from the moment it leaves your opponent's bat...

So you keep all your old blades? How many have you got?

I think it's homemade out of resistance bands. I have looked on TT webstores and never found one. I would buy one for myself if there is a commercial version. I tend to let my upper arm drift too far back, much like loerting in his thread running parallel with this.