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A truth about TT: It never gets easier to improve, but you get better anyway.

This is pretty normal at first. Play more tournaments. That feeling goes away. Also, we are not pros. Nobody cares if you win or lose, except you. Nobody thinks less of you if you lose. Especially after a 30 year break! So keep losing (for awhile) and realize that if you lose its not a...

RULE 27. While it is allowed and perhaps even mandated to own an insane number of blades (see rule 20), it is not allowed to believe that the next one you buy will appreciably improve your level.

Rule 83. You are not allowed to sniff the glue.

Well, in fairness. Mog HAS been freed.

By the way, kids who lived in the Kopparhuset were considered to be dangerous or otherwise to be avoided by kids who lived in the surrounding posh areas. A question of economic class I think, but friends of mine who lived there later went on to establish a punk rock band that recorded a lot in...

Last time I was in Stockholm (nearly ten years now) I drove out to that area and was amazed at how little had changed over FOUR decades (there or in most of the city). I found it comforting. I love Stockholm. Actually, that is fairly normal, but I'm not used to it. In a place like Houston...

I would cite it in response to many threads but do not wish to appear tedious. Of course all of The Rules are based on Wisdom.

Close to Morby Centrum there are three old (1950s) semi-high rise apartment buildings that people in the area called the Kopparhuset because the entire buildings were covered in a weird copper siding. It is right next to Kevingeskolan and the old golf club. When I was in my early teens, we...

It is akin to the sound of one hand "clapping".

Indeed, Ba'al is merely the messenger. There is always a point where n + 1 transitions to s-1. They describe equally valid and yet seemingly incomnensurate descriptions of reality, analogous to quantum mechanics and relativity. If you are confused, perhaps contemplation of Rule 88 is in...

Yes. In 1970s. Also Taby.

Fan I helvete as I used to hear in Danderyd

Don't get me wrong, Der. I think most EJ threads are pointless on any forum and you may recall how often I have mocked them. The only thing worse is a "guess the rating" thread which thankfully you never see here. I'm just saying that the description of the most common topics above was not...

It could be that this reflects current state of TT in North America, which is still a dicey place to play TT because of Covid-19. If you're not playing you may not want to post.

Perhaps I shouldn't promote another forum here, but I only will mention that there are 46 threads on page 1 of MyTT and exactly ONE comes even close to that description (it's about travel across state lines in Covid-19). Which is actually a bit related to the topic of THIS thread. Most are EJ...

Mog posted only once there as far as I could tell. Evidently it did not give him the same pleasure.

Remember, don't beat yourself. You don't need to play likhe Ma Long just yet. Pick your shots to attack, try to set it up by making your opponent move. Don't always attack to the same place. Don't forget to attack at his body. Most of all, don't beat yourself. The problem with watching...

Whatever rubber you play with for a long time.

Here is something I figured out*. You have to constantly train shots on both sides where you have to move to get to the ball. If your equipment lets you hit good quality consistent shots whilst doing that then it has done its job, and maybe you don't need to worry about blades or rubber. At...