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Man, there is a lot of wisdom being spoken here. Thanks BRS and NL. Guilty as charged on many of those points. I've been trying to internalize some of them before, and it has at least made my game much less frustrating. This approach to TT is the way to go imo, both in terms of improvement and...

While generally when you loop against block your FH may end up at around eye level, it's not a strict rule. Sometimes the finishing position will be like all the way across your body and down by the waist. It depends entirely on the type of ball you're dealing with. When you have a lot of time...

Hmm I see. Check this video out: You can see he has his arm quite well out in front and just does a short whip motion with his wrist, since you're hitting backhands close to the table I think this is what you should aim for. The turning of the upperarm and a push with the legs is what drives...

I think you could try experimenting with adjusting your arm structure slightly. To me, it looks like your elbow/arm is too close to your body so you don't have much space to swing. With the older type backhand technique this is ok since that technique relied more on body rotation and that body...

It isn't easy. But that's also the beauty of it. My advice to you would be to try the serves you're having difficulty with, if you can generate similar spin yourself you might be less surprised when you face them. It's difficult to teach someone how to read spin, it's kind of learnt from...

People seem to watch too many highlight videos of top players. Maybe everyone should record themselves playing more, it'll humble you. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Experience is king in table tennis. Yesterday my team and I went to practice at this other venue with some really good...

Timo boll ALC is much faster, there's a big difference in feeling since the blades are totally different. If you want more forgiveness and better feedback for your shots the acoustic would probably be better for you.

I asked the same question a while back and went with Timo boll alc flared version, I used an acoustic before. The timo boll alc is slightly thicker but still quite thin. Fits my small hands fine.

Nice one!! Looks good to me, I think you're turning the the right amount for those shots as you have the time for it, and it seemed to have worked out well right? 😁 You could bend your knees a little bit more and put more of your weight on your right foot when you're turned so that when you...

From my point of view the use of arm muscles should be ideally none or at a minimum. The speed of the arm in the forward swing is ideally from the usage of the legs and an appropriate backswing, so the only conscious usage of the arm would be for the backswing. The forearm snap in the forward...

By knowing that it hardly makes any difference to my playing level. Switching often makes makes it more difficult to get used to it and each time you'll have to recalibrate your strokes slightly. I've been switching a lot lately been carbon and all wood to try to figure out which works best for...

Thanks all I tried a bit more earlier and gave up and just glued rubbers on anyway, there isn't much left on there but it's annoying. Never had anything like it. Even with extra glue layers on some weird glue is still left after taking it off. I also tried rubbing with left over rubber pieces...

Does anyone know of a trick to remove tiny bits of residue glue from blades? I borrowed some glue a while ago that was really thin and it has been hell to remove. I've scrubbed for ages and got most of it out from the middle, but there is still like a very thin layer and residual glue...

They don't need to slow the game down, they need to focus on marketing and creating table tennis culture. I don't think there are less players these days because of any ball or rule change, it's because the culture around the sport has changed and because everyone's attention is being torn...

I have a bunch of clips on my channel - some multiball practice, messing around clips and highlights, I have matches too but they're unlisted and most are older as I lately don't tend to record those. Here are some of my videos: This video shows where I was at around when I started, though...

I had quite a tough season except for the last matches before the season break. I thought I found something with my backhand a while ago, but it has been so inconsistent that I've had to avoid it in most of my matches and mostly play FH. So most of my focus has been to be more consistent in...

Several reasons as others have said. If you followed every player close enough you'd notice every single one has at least some patches of downswings, it's pretty normal. Harimoto has been going through it, FZD has been through it, ML went through it, Pitchford, Falck.. so many players that I can...

I don't think I've seen BB say anything that's untrue, I find it hard to disagree with what he says. Though he does express himself in words that are quite unfamiliar to myself and others that aren't as versed in science as he is. In the end I really think most of us are saying very similar...

Awesome, you'll love it! I went to WTTTC in Halmstad with some guys from my club and it was such a nice experience. We went from Thursday to Sunday, the only regret I had is that we didn't stay the whole week. I also wish I could've seen the pros train. There the group stages didn't have much of...

Yeah I totally agree and I hope my post didn't give the impression of being rigid, it's rather the opposite. My point was really that what if a coach came and started criticizing his technique just because it didn't "look" like a pros and then started to mess with it just because they were...