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  1. If they do the loop drive or punching or smashing correctly, the ball very quickly comes to me and hits my body—how do I return those shots?

    First I have to explain the two types of strokes and what I call them. The loop drive is the kind of shot that people do with a more closed angle, and they have to hit the ball sooner. And a topspin shot is when we let the ball drop after reaching its peak. So I've found out that I get less...
  2. I can't play table tennis when the opponent is humiliating himself and talks to himself just to get some magical powers. Are they mentally ill?

    I want to find the answer to why table tennis is the only sport where people love to talk to themselves when they make mistakes or even after scoring a point. I don't know of any other sport that people do this in. Not even people in tennis on the ground do it. People insult themselves and...
  3. Is it bad to mainly focus on the weight transfer while having a fixed arm for doing a forehand drive?

    I am mainly focused on feeling my left leg when I finish my shots as a right-handed player, and when I'm doing a forehand drive, my arm is almost fixed, and I hit the ball with the power that goes into my left leg, and I can do it very fast, and the ball always lands on the other side, and some...
  4. Do these things happen in the club where you play table tennis?

    From the moment I entered the table tennis club in my city, I faced a weird rule or something that I didn't know why it was even like that. Let's say there are only 8 tables in the club, and only 3 of them are in the sweet spot of the club, and also the quality of those three tables is better...
  5. Can you help me understand how it is possible to join the main league of the country in which a person lives?

    I've played table tennis for about 5 months in a club, and most of the guys I've played had a bad style; one of them was like he always lobs the balls until I hit the ball out of the table; the other guy's style is just defense; their serves are fault sometimes; and when I tell them this, they...
  6. Is this explanation about looping against different types of spins correct?

    There are lots of people who teach that a forehand loop against a non-backspin ball finishes at eye or head level, and they say that in the case of a forehand loop against backspin, it finishes above the head level. When the player wants to do a backhand loop against backspin but the ball goes...
  7. What do people do wrong in their weight transfer that could cause the side of their knees to hurt afterwards?

    After playing table tennis, these red areas in my knees hurt, and I think it is because of my weight transfer in forehand topspins or loops. Some people have told me that this happens because I do wrong movements. What do people do wrong in their weight transfer that could cause the side of...
  8. Do you guys pay the coach for multiball drills in the club?

    Not everyone has a friend who would throw balls for multiball drills. In the club I go to, I thought it was a free thing that a coach would just throw balls for multiball training. Once I asked him how the multiball thing works there, and he said that I should pay an extra $14 a month so he...
  9. Is this forehand topspin technique in the video for both top and back spin half-long serves?

    Nowhere in this video do I see if this forehand topspin will work for all spin types of half-long serves; he just says lower center of gravity and rotate around the ball close to the table and then don't hit the ball upward but follow through the table. Now I'm wondering if it will work for both...
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