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decided to record me and my teammate warming up/messing around yesterday. I feel this is something I have to start doing more, it feels strange to watch myself play but could be so useful. Hopefully I can get him to record some actual games with me next season. Good fun to try new things and...

Hey guys, is there anyone else on the forum that's going to BUCS this year? I'll be there representing Plymouth university, if anyone is keen for a knock when we're there next week let me know! :D

I found the square bat the guy in the white t-shirt in the background is using to be quite interesting (and why is he wearing a white t-shirt, that's a table tennis sin! :D). Someone from my old club uses a square and larger than normal bat for chopping as well, I wonder how common it is.

I don't think I've ever seen a player where I play in a white t-shirt, it's understandable that it can be bothering! In the local league where I play it's illegal to wear a white t-shirt and even white shorts. A pet peeve for me are players who are obnoxious, don't encounter them too often...

This is such a good post. Such a humble player, yet a master. It's very sad to see people speculating and creating no end of conspiracy theories. It's so pointless, we will never know. Just enjoy the table tennis that these two amazing players have provided us.

So happy to see ML win, amazing performance, a bit embarrassing for the people hyping Zhang Jikes performance up so much however. Incredible table tennis, some of the points were out of this world.

This is fantastic table tennis, both are playing out of their skin, amazing topspin to topspin rallies!

I agree with Carl. I do like the way Cho sounds and I find it more fitting when it's coming from the chinese or even the japanese or anyone who's been brought up with saying it, I've done it a few times myself but I find it a bit silly. I'm half swedish so now instead I just say something to...

Thanks, it still just sends me to that video, guess I'll settle with the french one instead.

Does anyone have the BBC link for the next game? Everytime I press play it just sends me to the ping pong prodigy video.

This game is crazy

And what I'm trying to get you to consider is that it might not be that weird. There are going to be reasons for his nerves. You're right though, considering his accomplishments this could make him less nervous as he's already achieved so much. On the other hand his accomplishments might be...

How am I in any way comparing you and ML? You started off by saying that it's crazy how he doesn't have the confidence and you're wondering wtf is wrong with him. Then you seemed to change your mind by saying you understand the pressure. So, what is it you're trying to say? I also do not mean...

Well, if you say things like you don't know wtf is wrong with him and that it's crazy that he doesn't have the confidence etc then you're showing a lack of understanding. No one is taking anything too seriously, I'm just questioning your statements. Again, it's easy to sit here and speculate...

Despite his technical ability, he's still human. Imagine the pressure that he's under, some people are just more susceptible to this pressure and get more or less nervous. It's not crazy at all, you can't underestimate your opponent, he knows that he could lose to any of the players he's up...

Ma Long was and is the better player, could you explain how he was "so lucky"? As for Stefan, I didn't watch this particular game but he's well known for hiding his serves so props to the umpire doing something about it for once.

I am! The ceremony is freaky, pretty cool. Does anyone know when the table tennis will start to be shown? Surely not all of it will be on TV, anyone know a good site where it's streamed?

Tackles aren't really allowed in basketball are they so basketball is a wimp sport compared to football, soccer, rugby, boxing .. the list goes on. They're just different sports and taxing in different ways, table tennis is amazing in that at the top level it's taxing both physically and...

Men: Gold - Ma Long Silver - Zhang Jike Bronze - Jun Mizutani Women: Gold - Ding Ning Silver - Feng Tianwei Bronze - Li Xiaoxia