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That's the shared sentiment, and I have given you some of my side of the story. I get up to play fellow members in a way I don't to play non-members at these events. Bragging rights are a different level of reward, beating the other play sr might have been awesome but It wouldn't have added...

So the over 45 event was later in the day. We serve food at our events so instead quite a bit which I almost never do when playing. I wasn't sure what my elbow would do but I decided to try it out. Got to the table and the first player seede C I was supposed to play defaulted from the event...

The heads do for some players and I rule is visibility throughout the service not just at the point of contact. Otherwise we go back to envelope pushing dubious arguments over whether the ball is hidden by someone's head or shoulder or not at this point or that point of the serve. Was contact...

Your inequality signs on hardness to use might be confusing since you are trying to say that D80 is the easiest to use so you should probably have called that Ease of Use. I don't think D80 is a Tenergy 05 for the new ball, that is probably and debatably Tenergy 19. But I will say that D80...

It is to me not so much the angle (which is clearly a problem) but that the ball is clearly behind the plane of the body but the judgment sticks to a visibility criterion. They need to make a serious decision on how this will work. I get tired of all the dubious nonsense that this...

Best Indian prospect in a while. Diaz is a good player. Jee on the other completely perplexes me with her relative success.

Got 2nd in U2100 as the second seed in the event. Not great to lead with the story ending but that's how it went. Was in a group where the B player didnt show up and I had two kids, one 1600 and one 1300. Beat both of them pretty quickly and waited for them to battle each other so I could...

Just arrived at hotel room from table set up. Going to tournaments and playing on tables that have already been put together doesn’t let you appreciate the work that is often required to get a tournament playable set up., especially in an environment that isn't a full time table tennis club...

Quadri will be playing Anders Lind.... does Quadri stand a chance?

I hear you. If it was a lesser TT country you could chalk it up to ignorance. It was probably something the organizing committee fif that the players had no say in. But the things that are more cremonious for these kinds of events will always be a side-quest. The players have more than enough...

Maybe there were better side quests but you need some side quests to add some pomp to the event.

In Atlanta for the African diaspora TT tournament. We try to have it every year. Last year we did it in Austin but I sprained my foot before I could play a rated match. This year I will be playing u2100, U2300, O45 and U4000 doubles. Will try to share pics ans update results. Should be a blast

The crazy thing is someone predicted on YouTube that Suthasini had no chance lol. I guess Suthasini is back in form. Anyone know what happened to Cho Seungmin? He isn't supposed to be playing worse at this point in his career but somehow he is....

Backhand has always been about spin so many forehand oriented players were able to hang in rallies better with thr plastic ball as backhand to backhand pressure was easier to defend against. A friend of mine used to joke about how many players now felt they could hang on the backhand since the...

1. Fan, amateur, internet commentator. 2. A bit of everything. Whenever I close this out, the next few topics will be smaller and different.

What do you play with now?

How did you get to a Falcima, @Gozo Aruna ? What happened to the rocket launchers? Did you create a fake profile?

I haven't bought an ESN rubber in forever. I just decided it wasn't worth my time/energy anymore. Whatever I saved on the front end, I would lose in performance and replaceability. Fortunately for me, rubber is not that expensive.

A friend once pointed me to a video on YouTube where there was a discussion on why Ma Long is the GOAT in table tennis (I think the video got some facts incorrect but let's leave that aside for the moment). My friend liked the video, but my contrarian side was not as impressed. I told him that...

I like to write about table tennis so I created this thread fora few reasons. One is that I intend to write enough material and sanitize it well enough to create my own self-indulgent and self important book. Yes, my narcissism is like that. Anther is that I just like to spam the webboard...