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The fate of the future of 2x a week TT at the Russian Church is under debate and decision... hopefully favorably for us all, but when a bunch of players are individually and collectively cheapskate freeloading stiffnecks, it is tough to do things as a group for the benefit of the group. This...

MaTT at the beginning of Cobiddie made a series of great serve tutorial vids worth digging up. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/mhtabletennis-tutorial-videos.23124/

Sergey Tsos, the nation's leading expert on H3, (so will @UpSideDownCarl ) will tell you that such a rubber wiped with Der_Echte bear sweat will be tacky, long living and fast. Der_Echte says a good cleaning with lemon juice and olive oil, followed by moistening, and application of a plastic...

The pros will use it if they like it... if they like another blade, they will use that and slap on the company handles and call it a day. At the end of the day (pun intended) do what Gozo just said and get with a custom blade maker and get them to custom make ur very own Mass Annihilation Unit.

For the FH pendulum serve, absolutely upper arm moves, but must stop at a certain point and lower arm goes through... I advocate for a bent arm starting to side/little behind ribs, a small backswing, elbow/upper arm hits ribs and stops, then lower arm goes through. Visualizing and executing it...

Footwork and ball reading skill improvement will take you many miles further down the TT path than Tenergy ATM.

Ask Sergey Tsos before this thread reaches 50 replies. He KNOWS H3.

Aurus lasts 3-4x longer than your premium rubbers... easily get 300 hrs, often 500-600 hrs. Now a real good elite amateur or above will pound the dog crap outta the ball and no med firm rubber known to man lasts very long doing that over and over... For these types the hard sponged rubbers...

OP should boost the match ball and blade as well... you know, to be consistent.

I would say do not worry too much about which exact blade. Get something all wood in ALL+ to OFF range with a handle you like (or grip tape it to shape you like)... and slap on modern dynamic offensive control oriented soft rubbers or older gen control oriented offensive rubbers and go back to...

You can fix that like people have suggested, but unless top ply is very hard/smooth, you will need to learn to seal the blade or this keep happening.

My recommendations are pretty much in line with @KM1976 ... Shakehand BH is good to have a softer modern dynamic control oriented 42-43 degree sponged rubber. (or older soft sponged control oriented offensive rubber) Easy to generate spin, easy to handle incoming spin with your stroke, easy to...

Hi blahness, It may appear that way on paper, but on the ground, JZ has the touch on his BH to make a real quality return consistently... he does pretty much the same thing with his FH, but he kills some or all the spin, returns it long right to your wheelhouse, and dares you to go for it...

That sounds Skillful to me. But it is the WRONG kind of skill. WHAT is the right kind of skill? The skills I have, athletic and put a lot of topspin on the ball.

As much of a real heavy FH topspin I can do... I find myself playing a lot more like Lula advocates... doing BH openings followed by BH kill or BH pressure combos. If you can do quality with a BH-BH combo, go for it. Quality is quality.

As a contrast, when I started TT in my 40s in Korea, the ex-pro chopper coach smoked me 2x weekly with footwork drills 80% of lesson... I was 185-190 back then and prolly in the best physical condition of my life. I smoked Soldiers running uphill interval workouts. I prolly now move around the...

Hi @dingyibvs my friends ended up not being so enthusiastic to go 2 hrs to bay area... I have been to the Pleasanton TT club a few times. You can often find players your level or better there and some people like to play doubles. There are a few places in that place where you cannot do a high...

I think Lula made a great point about a player should discover how he plays vs his opponents well... and stick to playing what is effective without worrying about trying to be Ma Long if other ways are working well for you.

Hi @Fnub , For your BH... You always seem to be trying to use your entire arm locked up and pivot it all with your shoulder joint. This is making it 10,000% more difficult to hit a quality BH. You should get elbow in front, stabilize your elbow and upper arm, then use the lower arm to make...

Hi @Fnub , Here are some things I see with you FH... Take a look on game two... when you serve, you are big time in the FH side of table already... and when ball comes back, there is not much table left for opponent to land it for your FH... when you serve closer to BH corner, you tend to step...