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hahahaha -- NO WAY!! The main takeaways from you that I got this past weekend besides the drilling of the 3rd topspin loop/5th attack tactic was that you kept track of 'important stuff and process' ... i didn't approach the matchplay in that way per se. At least not to the point of actually...

DAYUM! I was thinking the LP was used like a BH chopping stroke and not RPB! i used to use phantom in a bh chopping motion to compensate for weakness of serve receive or the just in case emergency a wide shot hit to my bh and i can't reach in time so i use the bh chopping motion for slight reach...

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Ah ok, somehow i may have misread the death wand swap thread ... knowing Carl is as SH, and seeing you post sometimes about PH stuff, i thought maybe you played both SH and PH. I get you now on the rubber and why it's longer. LOL at me... sorry about that!

I have no backhand whatsoever ... that is a bh stroke/smash ... on my bh side, i only block, punch or push. I will try the RPB from time to time for fun, but for serious training, i will hold off until i can be consistent with my game.

As you know Liten, i'm new here, still kind of finding my way here and getting to know the members... are you a penholder only player or do you sometimes play shakehands? I ask only because generally ph's will cut their rubbers to give their fingers a little space.

Der_Echte is not joking about his memory! Some months ago, we played a doubles match ... and I was keeping score out loud but as it was close to midnight, i was a little tired and had the score wrong... immediately Der said that's wrong, it can't be that, it's either this or that, because our...

LOL -- ok, i will try out the LP then... but only after i try out the short pips. Thank you Liten!

The long pips is an idea that is in the deep recesses of my pea brain. Ages ago, i tried Phantom on the back to compensate for my then-and-now-still poor serve receive. But it became a "crutch" and i took it off, trying to improve my serve receive instead. If nothing else, I will put on the long...

Hick's Law, Bruce Lee's Choice Reaction and the RPB Thank you Carl for the videos. I'm a little curious how the RPB plays having watched Liu Guo-liang, Ma Lin and of course Wang Hao. It will give me a tool to answer certain challenges which I've not overcome yet with just a punch, block or...

Thank you Carl!

I don't know if i ever will twiddle in the middle of a point, but in time, I may be able to if i keep training it. Twiddling for now means i will use the smooth side when i serve to get the spinnier serves and perhaps 3rd ball looping I will use the pips side on serve receive. At some point...

Punch/push-block and 'minimum effort, maximum efficiency' Agreed that the punch is a BH "stroke", perhaps "technique" is a better substitute for 'stroke'. I may be misunderstanding both your and Carl's definition of "TPB". I'm thinking it means traditional penhold backhand (BH)... BH for me...

I sometimes don't listen to 42&bp LOL but I'm willing to try pips only play ... always have been in the back of my mind. In some older reply by you to me, you mentioned i may be better off switching to pips only. Now with the Amazon, I may try out the twiddling between smooth and pips. As...

Back in the 80's, a clubmate played PH with an oldschool blue pips - forgot color of sponge ... want to say orange... anyway, he was a 1900 player, had a huge FH smash and a BH smash... his grip though was unorthodox... on the back, he would spread his fingers like a martial arts tiger claw hand...

Chatted last night with 42andbackpains, he thinks I may not like the short pips, as i've played very long with inverted. Despite starting off with pips, and my inverted game is mostly pips-type of game style, I'm going to borrow one of his old pips and try it out.

I may put long pips as Der suggested in his nyc thread or I may put short pips and go back to my roots lol the short pips may be my fh and I go the Liu Guo Liang way and embrace the modern ph style Or just use one side with the other to give it weight, but 2 inverted is too heavy for me now...

Unless I'm not getting you... er, no, the weight is NOT there with TPB as it's a single rubber. With modern PH, it's 2 rubbers and the weight IS there. Re: mid-life crisis ... "The years teach much which the days never know." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm looking at the videos of myself and never...

Archo, Although what you say is generally true for anything - over time the body will adapt and overcome .... HOWEVER ... Please understand that when i was very active in table tennis over 30 yrs ago, i was used to the weight of a single sheet, then 30 yrs of working with computers and...

Roger wilco! This goon's hand/wrist/game is saved :)