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Making the opponent move is a skill. They have gotten good at it because they realize that if they don't do it early you will have an easier time during the point making them move. You are still in the mindset of fighting with fitness and vigor so you want to outmuscle everyone. IT takes...

Play however you feel comfortable. Thinking about what you can or cannot do is a recipe for disaster. What your training has made comfortable is what you will feel comfortable doing. If you see that you have no chance but to get uncomfortable to win, then do that. But it is normal to just...

You are young, warm up both times as long as it is not affecting other important things. Playing well in TT is not so much about effort but about sharpness. When you have put in the work to get to a playing level, when your body is comfortable, it just express itself. Finding ways to get on...

People think blades are formula 1 racing cars. They are more like a pair of jeans.

Thanks for the sustained effort, @Matt Hetherington . Hopefully it will be good news and wishing you and Joola the best (and hoping Hugo can come to Baltimore as well - miss those old Joola pro teams).

Not really, this happens in an even more similar form when you have back to back feeder/contender/star contender events - usually, the top Chinese would pull out but not this time. My eye is on the Harimoto draw - was hoping he would get Xue Fei early - didn't get my wish, but there is a path...

Improvement in TT is hard - you spend a lot of time looping and getting tougher and then you find out that it was the chance to train with that 2200 player and block his loops that really improved your game as you blocked down all your opponents to win the title... But seriously, it doesn't...

Good point, and there's another point I forgot to make: It is dangerous to go through a period of intense training and expect your training to show up in a nearby tournament. Sometimes, the lag in improvement can be as much as 6 months.

When you train with a player who can't block your regular loops, if they are actually trying to block, you have to pick between power and consistency. You can't put all the responsibility on them if they are trying to block but cannot but you need to get your reps in. You need to find your...

It's not my job to defend you, it's yours. The problem as I have framed it has very little to do with Joola - it has to do with implying that somehow, Matt's posts are unreliable because of Joola's corporate history. It's hard to understand integrity in any other context related to Hugo's...

We are saying the same thing.

The ugly side is hardly a problem by itself. The purpose of this as well as the ugly side? :And the statements about holding Joola accountable? https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/calderano-signs-with-joola-139.38480/post-559981

"Permissible" I would change to "traditionally tolerated unless it rises to community insult". Btu that is a whole discussion for another time.

I did a straw poll on WhatsApp about Joola using the following question: "Straw poll/question: any thoughts on Joola as a TT brand/pickleball brand/company? Positive and negative are welcome." Sent it to 4 large WhatsApp groups of TT players that I am active in, mostly Africans, Indians...

My apologies but you don't post as a public or quasi-public person on this forum and you give as good as you get. Now if you posted as MyFirstName MyLastName and had a picture of yourself on your profile and said you worked for so-so-and-so, my attitude to anyone posting about your credibility...

I don't think anyone is uninterested in discussing it. It's really to what end and its relevance to attacking Matt's integrity that is what makes no sense. Maybe I am being biased by knowing Matt but I don't think it is that. It's partly because he is putting his name next to what he is...

@zeio, this really isn't a philosophical debate and it isn't smart to troll me with posts from your banned account - I have pointed out that there is a clear difference between my calling myself or my actions dumb and you calling me dumb and that equating both might make sense to you but it...

Yes, I do have an issue, but that doesn't mean anything, I can learn and change my mind. I live in the USA. I know many people who disaparage (and people who also love) the Joola Teams ( I am in both camps). I attend the Joola Teams almost every year. I have never heard much about Joola that...

So what do you want Joola and Matt as a rep to come clean on? Public information? What do you want to hear specifically that hasn't been said already? Accusing people of being unethical in some broad way when they are sharing information and their personal experiences with us that they have...