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So a couple of things here - I don't have to be 100% right - I am telling you how I interpret the match watching it. Someone else may see it differently. I am a better player than you are (even if aspects of your style could cause me problems with my mobility) and I am trying to tell you how...

Understood. Just saying that there is nothing political about it. It is just the outcome of the tournament based on rules for ranking the players.

I used to have the same fear of missing in matches. "Fear is the mind-killer" is a great quote for table tennis. Rubber will not solve your problem automatically. The problem is solved by building a framework around your makes and misses as long as you remember that a shot that puts the ball...

Very experienced amateurs (don't know @ThePongCommenter but I will pretend he is a very experienced amateur with a much higher playing level than OP, likely better than that) are repeating earned wisdom and @Zezima, like the good adult learner he is, will push back with self-defense. You need...

I presume you have spoken to professional players/coaches about leagues and tournaments before coming to this conclusion? As in which is their source of income, which has more serious performance obligations etc. and that this position of yours has accounted for any and all such logic?

That was pretty weird to be honest. Didn't see the match but not sure whether it is the venue or something about playing styles, some of the results are mindboggling.

Those rankings are clearly just based on the match scores of the loss in the tournament. I believe Hashimoto lost worse to Odo than Hirano to Sato. Don't believe it is a commentary on anything other than that.

Most players at our levels have poor short games, your forehand pushing skills are significantly above your overall playing level. When I serve, what i am looking for is an opportunity to attack. Usually, this means a ball that comes long or comes high. You don't have the right mindset when...

There is no magic answer other than to practice hitting a lot of balls at a lot of distances against a lot of spins and to try to use the whole body to power the shot while reducing the use of the upper arm to retain recovery and stability. No magic answers. But when you hit a lot of balls...

This is all a bunch of nonsense. Not that he shouldn't change rubber or play with something softer but that the whole idea of thinking in those terms is nonsense. His arm acceleration and stroke paths are clearly lacking and he is blaming the rubber. Guys, the kid that posts his YouTube...

Game 4: 1. He serves into the table. 2. He serves short, decent short push even it pops up the ball, he attacks into your forehand, you block and win the point. At this point, your coach would be cheering you on so that the opponent feels the pressure lol. 3. You serve long, he pushes, you...

So I watched the match. I am making some notes for the game by game: 1. first serve was long and he pushed and you used a backhand. This is risky unless you practice it a lot. Whenever you serve long to an opponent, your goal should be to use your forehand as much as possible unless you...

Golden Tango used to be pretty close - have your tried Tibhar K2 or Gewo EF 54? And J&H C55 and C57.5 on the outside chance?

Not debating that, just agreeing with latej's point on throw angle while agreeing with you that the original post is wrong even if well intentioned and that your posts are correct, just not on what throw angle specifically does. Like I said, I agree throw/exit angle is meaningful hence I posted...

That was the other point a high level coach I know used to make, it was that the kinds of tactics he would teach should be common sense and that if you play proper TT, most of the tactics tend to take care of themself. If someone needs to tell you that you are getting beat in backhand exchanges...

We are on the same side of the argument, I am just arguing that your definition of throw angle isn't quite consistent with hitting the ball long per se, it is more consistent with having too open a blade angle to keep the ball low or needing a more closed blade angle to keep the ball's exit...

High throw usually means longer arc which usually means the ball flies in a longer and higher curve over the net and bounces shorter on the table which usually means that you have more room to put the ball on the table, especially if you close your racket. With D09c vs H3, it is not so much the...

Close to the table topspins off the bounce with power and spin. They had close to the table penholders in mind when releasing that rubber.

His level (and even that of his opponents) is not that bad, the problem is more that he doesn't play his game in a way that lends itself to understanding what strengths he should impose. That said, even up to USATT 2200, we have so much stuff wrong with our games that high level coaches prefer...

The original post is pretty wrong.