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You can push long and short backspin but it is better to loop a long backspin. Topspin should rarely if ever pushed. Short backspin can be flicked if it is higher but pushing generally is easier and lower risk albeit a bit less dangerous to the opponent.

Depends on the draw of course, LJK could make finals but also meet FZD in the semi or even quarter as he is only ranked like 10th or so

Dima has torn his ankle ligament and ma long and xu xin have not been nominated most likely because they would be to old at the next Olympics and the "second row" of young Chinese players behind FZD has been slacking a little and CNT wants to put more pressure on them to evolve faster and close...

Yeah a "street player" could be a really good former tournament player. A true street player to me is a guy who only plays street and hasn't received formal technique training. But Nobody wants to watch that so most of those street player videos are probably club players who wear street clothes...

I think FZD will win, lin yun ju doesn't seem to have the same level he had at the Olympics and dima is out with an injury. With that and ma long out FZD should have a rather easy road to the title, it really is his title to lose now.The Chinese second row looks pretty beatable, wang chuqin and...

I'm pretty sure they are not just street players but also play in a German club league.

I think generally people think china=cheap. Yinhe and even DHS offer a lot of blades in the 20-40 bucks range so people are not willing to pay butterfly prices for a Chinese product even if that particular Chinese product is great quality. Japanese luxury brand Lexus had the same issue in...

I agree you don't really need a breakup if you don't play professionally. Maybe get a cheap Walmart type of bat so you can finish the match in case something happens but a bat breaking happens so rarely that you Don't need a same Quality backup, if once every 3 years your bat breaks you just...

I'm not good enough to judge if that is true but both Timo and dima have said about the tacky rubbers that the big advantage isn't really top end spin but that you have more security. Dima said you can generate a lot of spin with tenergy too but with the tacky dignics he is able to take a big...

Not sure that is true, I always heard that grippy is faster on straight smashes and drives and and tacky is better for spin. In fact some Chinese players twiddle from their tacky h3 forehand rubber to their grippy tenergy to hit forehand smash against high lobs. The Chinese Euro thing gets a...

Here is a video of him practicing serves. https://youtu.be/WSBf2TG_h3A Certainly not just no spin serves there. Many pros have said ma long has a very good serve, they wouldn't say that if it just was the same serve all the time.

Thanks for posting. I will wait for the English subs before watching it

That opponent is ranked like 100 spots below him in the world ranking so he should beat him. ​​​​​​Still a good sign that a world class player can play matches with it but I still probably wouldn't buy it.

Or a red rubber with the word stop on it:)

Good discussion, field seems to be pretty split on FH vs BH. One reason I like BH is I'm a lefty and most righty serves at my lower level tend to serve more inside spin than reverse pendulum when using side spin and for lefty hitting the right side of the ball is easier with BH (for righty...

Is it programmable which fields are lighting up or is it kinda random? I think it is kinda cool because it shows up on the fly so player has to make adjustment mid flight just like in games and not just make up his mind. But you could of course also simulate it by marking the table with those...

Thanks. Changing based on the intended placement and spin of the ball could definitely make sense as for a righty it is easier to hit the right side of the ball to neutralize a pendulum serve with the FH and reverse pendulum with backhand to hit the left side of the ball. But wouldn't that give...

I'm talking short underspin serve that is too low to be flipped. Are you using FH or BH to push or soft touch it back? Clearly into forehand or backhand it is easy but what do you use on short serve to middle of the table? ​​​​

Timo also said he started with soft rubbers and gradually moved to harder ones, so that is probably a pretty common transition.Video is in German unfortunately with no English subs though https://youtu.be/DimngFxZPoc Rough Translation: -first I didn't care about it and just played what my...

Dima can play a pretty decent RPB too:) (go to 8:00 in the video) https://youtu.be/RnoNipHJQXo