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I really agree with this. The more stuff I know I can work towards improving the more I'm enjoying it, because then every drill has a purpose and then when I play games I try to get the technique going there too. It's a bit like everything, when you have some sort of meaning or purpose to what...

I've done some work on my bh which was non existent in games before. Lately I've put work into fh against backspin and making sure I use my body better/properly to drive my arm instead of just using my arm muscles. The same goes for bh, I want my body to drive the action more and I also...

I appreciate any criticism. Always good to get different points of view. The last few months or so my performance has been volatile as there's a few things I'm trying to change technically. TTedge and NL has helped me a lot. NL has especially helped me with my BH...

I'm trying to get rid of exactly this too. Someone in my club told me last year that I should snap my forearm more.. so I started doing that consciously and now after knowing better from ttedge I'm trying to get rid of it again and just letting my arm snap without any effort from the force of my...

https://youtu.be/aK3NaT1Fh4M?t=27 When I'm hitting the FH's here at the start other than the last one.. am I doing it correctly or should I be rotating my hips even further back and forward? Ok I'm a bit stressed for time here as I'm doing fh all over the table.. but I think when I'm hitting...

Thanks for this NL, I think I see what you mean. So I think I need to plant my left foot more firmly on the ground so I can spin my left hip back and forward.. and then not let both my feet leave the ground. I guess it should be more that the toes rotate a bit forward from the hip rotation but...

Yep I agree, are you sure you mean left foot? I often step in with my right foot and then I'm in a bad position to play the next shot, especially if it goes to my BH. I've been trying to work on it and making better use of my right hand as it's just down when I play, but that's less important...

Wow what compliments, thank you guys! Very motivating for me :)

Since I've been recording quite a lot the last 6 months or so I decided to put together a small compilation. Incidentally I also had some recordings from around the time I started playing which I put in there. Funny the way I saw table tennis back then compared to now. I really had no clue at all.

Poor Koki :(. What can he do?

It would be interesting to hear people's thoughts on what "greatest" means to them. What do people think? What's the most important factor for a player to be the greatest? If we changed it to most dominant player of all time who are the other contenders than ML? I don't know this btw, I don't...

I've not been following TT for that long so I'm a bit biased towards Ma Long, I wasn't there when he had his mental struggles or when the other greats were playing (though I'm a big fan of Waldner). ML's beautiful style of play, dominance and character are a few things that make him my FOAT...

I'll go with Sam Walker.

God I love ML.. how can someone dislike this man? As much as I wanted Mattias to win ML deserves this so much. I don't get one of the posts above. Should China just stop trying and give away points for free? No.. we need to keep working harder if we want to break the chinese dominance. It has...

Don't know what's more impressive Boll at 38 or Harimoto at 15 reaching the final.. ;)

I agree but I brought that up as a sidenote. The way it is at the moment, everyone loses. Amateur player's will get annoyed with each other because they see others serving illegally, most don't care of course, but still. Pro player's might get unlucky with the umpire and have to change their...

It's basically what Fruitloop says. We can't have some umpires being strict on the serves and some not. The player's will try to get their serves as close to legal as possible and if no one tells them except very few umpires then it's game ruining. It is difficult when it's their career and...

Agreed, I don't know if it's one umpire in particular or several of them. He was calling all of Truls' punch serves so he couldn't do that anymore and he was calling lots of other players serves. Just let them play.. it ruins the game. They need to revise the service rule instead of introducing...

Mattias Falck is an amazing player.. I don't get how you can say this. Like the above poster said he's WR 15 and has beaten several top players like Lin Gaoyuan for example. I'm curious if this really is typical of Harimoto. Could you mention several of much lower ranked players Harimoto has...

Great match and great sportsmanship by Harimoto letting Mattias have that point even though it wasn't clear whether it was an edge or not. I'm sure many players would hesitate to give that point away.