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  1. Why amateur players should avoid fast gear and where power really comes from in table tennis.

    I used to play like that so I know what Netprohet means. And my attempt to change my game a bit is what led to exactly what you are saying - using less slow stuff to improve the ability to block and play off the table.
  2. Why amateur players should avoid fast gear and where power really comes from in table tennis.

    With my technique I got lower trajectory balls with Szocs but I got more spin with the Harimoto SZLC.
  3. WTT Contender Muscat-2026 (19- 24 January 2026)

    The man masquerading as a child (my joke, not doubting his age, but he has been big for his age even as a kid)has been ready for this for a while but he has been unable to surpass Lin Shidong or dominate the juniors (lost to a Japanese prodigy at the last U19 and while he won the Asians, he has...
  4. WTT Contender Muscat-2026 (19- 24 January 2026)

    Picking against your obvious picks lol ...
  5. Technique correction - Trying to Fix my FH backstroke + hitting through the sponge

    Well there is a method to your madness. Let's hope it works. Because training in one range of speed/spin is not the way to build a change that can endure in all situations.
  6. Technique correction - Trying to Fix my FH backstroke + hitting through the sponge

    The biggest thing IMHO that some are saying that is lost in translation is that you are trying to get good way too fast and in doing so trying to hit the ball hard before it is clear that you have mastered how you want to hit the ball. You might get somewhere good because you are already a...
  7. 2026 Emperor's/Empress's Cup (aka All Japan) Jan 20-25, Doubles Jan 29-Feb 1

    It is a Japanese special lol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuhiko_Hasegawa
  8. WTT Contender Muscat-2026 (19- 24 January 2026)

    The final still awaits...
  9. WTT Contender Muscat-2026 (19- 24 January 2026)

    the funny thing is that at the start of game 2, chen started sitting on it lol and got a few points because of that ... but it wasn't enough...
  10. WTT Contender Muscat-2026 (19- 24 January 2026)

    I was going to make a bad joke about how Doo Hoi Kem has forgotten how to play combination players.... but more seriously, and only slightly more seriously, was Chen Yuanyu scared to be playing Fan Zhendong's teammate? Looked like it lol...
  11. 2026 Emperor's/Empress's Cup (aka All Japan) Jan 20-25, Doubles Jan 29-Feb 1

    Janet Jackson has a song that comes to mind when I read statements like this... :unsure:
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    I think the serve was fine for what you were doing, I didn't have any major issues with it. Serve practice though does give its own reward, if you have serves that are truly at or above your level, it makes you immune to losses against certain lower level players and makes you able to box...
  13. WTT Contender Muscat-2026 (19- 24 January 2026)

    Wen is such a Unit, he plays better at the senior level than at the junior level.
  14. 2026 Emperor's/Empress's Cup (aka All Japan) Jan 20-25, Doubles Jan 29-Feb 1

    Did you watch Sato at the Star Contender? Zhu Yuling was the only one that gave her a match. You have to be in form to play Sato and Hashimoto.
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    You are working on the right things, it will get better. I am not as big as you and I never managed to tighten my core but it all worked out. It will be fine regardless and you will get better at it. Remember that bracing/tightening your core is not the same as holding your breath. It's more...
  16. 2026 Emperor's/Empress's Cup (aka All Japan) Jan 20-25, Doubles Jan 29-Feb 1

    Putting them in thr same draw again was the fairest thing the tournament did.
  17. 2026 Emperor's/Empress's Cup (aka All Japan) Jan 20-25, Doubles Jan 29-Feb 1

    Any interesting tables in particular? Watching Sato...
  18. WTT Contender Muscat-2026 (19- 24 January 2026)

    There is a good case for Picard being just anyone at the top pro level but even then the loss was deuce in the 5th and Picard's serve was on fire that match. Jorgic is not just anyone. Whether we admire his game or not.
  19. Why amateur players should avoid fast gear and where power really comes from in table tennis.

    But is landing the ball on the table with a big stroke everything (from someone who worked hard to land the ball on the table with big strokes lol)...
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