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Clearly we need both: effective treatments and an effective vaccine. Of course the word effective is vague. However a vaccine that makes someone asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic instead of critically ill or dead is effective by my way of thinking but maybe hard to tease out of clinical...

Yes, that's the guy (Bjorkryd) I was thinking of. We'll know in a couple years.

Zeio as usual makes great points. Somebody should remind me, are there ANY really young German players worth keeping an eye on? Swedish?

Probably the only thing like it here is women's gymnastics, which I've always thought verges on child abuse (and at the US Team camp was ACTUAL abuse, the perpetrator will never get outofprison, but for years complaints were ignored).

A friend of mine who was in that system until he was 14 (on a junior provincial team in China) described it to me as "being sent to table tennis prison". He was released when they decided he wasn't good enough. It was only after he came to the US and was at the university here that he actually...

Best thing I ever did was switch to Nexy Karis rubber*. It goes fast when I put effort into it, it goes slow when I want it to go slow, and it is totally predictable. It allows me to really swing hard when I want to rip and then the ball rips. After 10+ years of Tenergy 05, nothing improved...

Yes, Boll ZLF would come close. Also look at Soulspin, they make a lot of blades in that range. The owner designed the Viscaria. With that said, why not try slower more controlled rubber first?

Repetitive stress can cause tendons to degenerate because cells in the tendons called tenocytes change their properties. This is not even an entirely inflammatory process. If you rest it comes back (take a couple weeks). This limits the effectiveness of thjngs like cortisone, NSAIDs and even...

I was encouraged by th e lack of symptoms rhe second time. But not surprised that it is possible.

I agree with Dr.. Evil. My best guess is that monoclonal antibody cocktails will end up being more effective. Several are in Phase 3 trials and hopefully we find something soon. They have been carefully designed and you would know exactly what you are giving the patient. As for the plasma...

MOG, you have to relax more while looping. Your whole upper body is too rigid.

Yep. It is that simple. Of course you have to train systematically. By the way, a 2500+ player I used to hit with sometimes made me understand the value of not trying to hit every shot with as much spin as possible. Viktor can get insane amounts of lefty topspin from either side but he also...

Vaccines that have not undergone clinical trial. So its not known if they work. Hopefully they do. But right now its not known. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-coronavirus-vaccine-bypass-clinical-trials/2020/08/24/1813779a-e5be-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

I agree with Carl and Kolev. Rest it before you try anything else, including exercises. Otherwise tendons don't just get inflamed, they undergo degenerative changes. Trying to strengthen a muscle attached by a damaged tendon won't help. Damage to small tendons is not going to be easy to...

OK Mog. Just remember, video is your friend! Seeing is believing. Video yourself playing matches

MOG, you think you know what is happening. Possibly, but maybe a little video analysis will help you correct your problem. Or you could continue to come to a forum to note a problem and then reject all suggestions from very experienced players on how to deal with it. Question is, do you...

MOG, some things stick in your mind and can distort your perception of what is happening. This happens to everybody and only rigorous objective analysis gets to the truth. It's true in every sport. The only way to KNOW what problems you are having in humidity is to video a few matches in...

With 40+ balls being able to play close in is a big advantage.. It sounds like you're not comfortable doing it. All the more reason to work on it. As a general observation, I see a lot of people who only practice the stuff they are already relatively good at.

You'd have to be insane to try it where I live. I envy my fellow forum members where things are more under control.

I live in a semi-tropical swamp. Humidity is always a problem here but ironically worse in winter because no AC to dry out the air. The only solution is to play a bit more safely, allow yourself a bit more margin for error. Even with that you will miss some weird shots you might normally...