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So essentially with such a rubber you have to ignore the racket motion of the opponent and only consider the spin of the ball you have hit? I would Assume that is pretty tough against a good player who can twiddle and hit fake loops and fake chops with anti. Then you definitely have to watch...

BTW on topic what is the trick with those anti blocks? It's always opponent loops, anti guy blocks and guy misses into the net. Is the anti returning backspin against loop? And how much control does the anti guy have over that? Can he vary the amount of spin on those blocks?

I wouldn't like to see a lot of players like this but honestly ittf has more than enough two winged inverted loopers so there isn't really an issue and having some guys who mix it up is a cool thing. And sure some matches between loopers are great but there are also a lot of matches with hardly...

BTW the issue with billionaires (if you are a socialist) is not the money they spend but the money they save:). It's actually a good thing if billionaires have a luxury life and spend lots of money because it helps economy and pays other people. What is bad is if billionaires accumulate a lot...

Kanak jha is definitely better at this point and probably was better then Kou Lei ever was. Kou Lei struggled in the Bundesliga while jha is a pretty solid Bundesliga player.

Here is ma playing a pretty good match against former CNT player yu ziyang (2018 world team cup gold medalist with China). Losing 4 sets to 1 but some pretty tight sets. https://youtu.be/r_Au8nfZ2rM

Wikipedia claims it was initially played with books as a racket and golf balls in great Britain but around 1900 a British person discovered a celluloid ball in the USA (not sure what it actually was created for)

Xu xin would sometimes lob with his RPB but I doubt there are any high level players from the RPB era who use lobbing as their primary match play strategy.

Thanks, I understand it now. Before the triangle confused me because I thought how can there be a fixed point in the triangle if the triangle is moving? But if triangle stays where it was it makes sense. And yes, theorizing it too much definitely is not helping me but it is hard to let go of...

Or is the forehand triangle essentially set in the backswing (green triangle) and then stays there despite the turning shoulders? I didn't really understand that because I thought the triangle has to turn with the shoulders (red triangle) which would mean you have to make forehand contact...

I definitely see the triangle on the BH but I still have trouble seeing it on the FH. To my untrained eye it looks like on the FH the contact is more besides the shoulders out wide rather than between the shoulders. What am I missing here? Is the FH triangle basically seen from the backswing...

I don't quite understand the triangle. Is it between the shoulders from the ready position like this Or is it from the turned/take back position like this?

Btw one thing I noticed that I seem to hit the ball more like in the first third of the stroke so I'm hitting the ball more near the start of the stroke and then have a long follow through. It seems the good players hit the ball more in the last third of their stroke so they hit it near the...

Thanks next level and carl. Next level I mainly want to get a workout and hopefully improve technique some. I'm not moving enough as I have a stressful office job so hopefully I can get 20-30 minutes workout twice a week at flexible times when I find time. I also play matches like once a...

I treated myself with a more decent robot (tibhar jr pro) that can shoot backspin and topspin and hit left and right:) Made a video of myself hitting topspin https://youtube.com/shorts/92jR1oGWu78?feature=share And backspin https://youtube.com/shorts/S25qnHUDD94?feature=share Video is kinda...

I saw this video by a german defender He shows kind of a fake topspin with the pip. What kind of spin will that have? Is it backspin (video is German but you can see the shot) https://youtu.be/UXAY0V9sLP0

I have not tried it but there is a hybrid rubber from gewo called codexx which is available in 52 and 54 degrees and has a reasonable price. Maybe that also would be an option.

Found that guy, polish guy (and native polish too) born in 2005 playing penhold. Didn't stand much of a chance against Timo in that match and probably needs some technical refinement but is still young. Interesting he plays penhold without chinese parents. Does anyone know his story...

I have read at the top level you can deduct about 300 points or so from USATT players to players in European top leagues, so basically a 2700 in the US would be like a 2400 in europe. Not sure if that is true though.

Why are you so obsessed with him? You can look up his international results and see that he has beaten a lot of top 100 players in his career. You don't know how serious he still is about table tennis as he is in his mid 30s. Maybe he is just training a couple hours a week. Or he had some...