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For me, easy, Adam Bobrow. He plays the game the way he wants and still got to a high level. His humor may be crude to some, but he truly loves the sport and has more fun with it than anybody else.

So tonight, april first, as a college student I tend to party every once in a while. I brought out my raquet to play beer pong and hit a few in. unfortunately I can't just hit it off my raquet into a cup and had to do a serve to place them in, which included a bounce. Not missing a cup but...

Making this thread for advice and general things I've noticed in my short lived table tennis career What to expect from this thread? Video's (within about a month) Strategies Questions about gameplay Strengths and weaknesses General Discussion Advice Table Tennis Background I first...

I know you can't talk in a rally. ESPECIALLY during your opponents stroke because it could distract them. But what if you mishit the ball, causing a weak return, are you then allowed to say something like "oh crap" if it's really just a reaction to your own shot?

So our club in Kansas has started a league night every Thursday night. This was an attempt to bring new players to the club, and a way to make a little money to expand the club with tables, nets etc. We do a round robin format and adjust peoples ratings accordingly every week. We've only been...

Today I wen't to a local, non-sanctioned tournament at school (I take online classes at a community college), I knew ahead of time I was going to win, guaranteed. Though the tournament was easy, people got pretty annoyed that I was there and started complaining that it wasn't fair. Is it messed...

I'm making this thread to discuss momentum during a set of games. I noticed that If I win the first two games of a set pretty handily (11-5ish or better on both) I tend to let up on the next game as a way of conserving energy for future games. This is a mistake, as once your opponent builds a...

1. What is bottoming out? For the longest time I thought it was when I made a stroke and the ball never dug far enough into the rubber to make contact with the wood, and thus the ball would just drop as it was never propelled. But recently someone told me it happens more with thinner rubbers...

So for a long time now my coach has been trying very hard to get me to un-cock my wrist. I had always thought the reason I had it the way I do is because of the way I hold the paddle. While this may be slightly the case we have actually found out the real reason why. When I un-cock my wrist, I...

I've come across a problem recently with doing Random multi-ball drills with my coach. This is when the coach will give you backspin, high balls, topspin balls, no spin, quick, slow, short, long just randomly from their bucket of balls. All goes well until I miss one ball, after I miss one ball...

Ill be in the Manhattan area in about a month, only location I know of to play is at SPiN. Are there any others?

In my eyes there are two extreme ends of the spectrum. End #1 = The only games player End #2 = The only Drills player For a long while I was on the severe side of End #1. I would only play games because i didn't want to waste a higher level players time with me constantly missing the table and...

explaination on the way I hold my paddle. audio needed so turn on sound ;). I didn't know how to explain in the video why flat hitting is more difficult with it. One idea to why is because I have less stability with this grip. I'll ask my coach why it's harder to do, I'll see her tomorrow.

Has anybody had experience with this blade? a friend of mine is looking to get a jpen blade and plays rpb. one big question about the blade is, is the cork in a semi circle on the back of the blade. All info about the blade is welcome, thanks!

What is your experience, (either you or against someone else who has been on drugs while playing)? Here's what I've noticed Alcohol Tipsy (1 drink)= More relaxed and strokes seem better but reflexes seem a bit slowed Alcohol Drunk- plays terribly in every way compared to their usual self...

TLDR?= What made you stick with table tennis? Where I live there's two main clubs for table tennis. One of which is very welcoming full of players from ratings 2000 to 500. -We'll call this one Nice club (about 10 tables here) The other of which has higher level players from about...

I have two unopened fx-p and 2 unopened grip rubber sheets. what are pro's and cons to each rubber. I'm thinking they're pretty similar and wanting a comparison between the two. please dont say "grip has more spin" I'd rather hear which is softer or which topsheet has more grip or something like...

So i have a blade maker (ross leidy) making me another violin composition blade. Last time i had him do this i requested it at about 86grams. to do this he had to make the head size a bit oversized. with the oversized head i had to use more rubber on the blade making it heavier than all my other...

So I change my equipment a LOT. My stroke doesn't change much between the change in different blades or rubbers. Adjusting to new equipment takes about 1 hour MAX for me. Anyway, i have a friend who used 1.8 thickness bluefire jp03 on both sides of his blade. He decided to test out tenergy for...

Can i get some advice on my strokes (other than use the left side of my body which i dont use enough)? still learning and wanting advice. Im aproximately 1700 usatt. in the video it starts with simple fh-fh, fh loops off topspin fh push simple bh-bh (my biggest issue in my opinion) bh push bh...