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We have seen this story of age without coaching working against younger players in many national teams in the past. This is no different. Japanese Nationals will be a better measure.

Chen Yo beat the Hayata clone worse than she beat Hayata... says something...

It's quite clear to me that the serve always goes behind his head, whether it is always visible I leave for you to determine. Kanak doesn't habitually push long, so you have to infer from that that there was something subtly difficult going on.

Kanak has a really short backhand countertopspin, the ball is more loaded than it appears to be. edit: There was probably also from very subtle ball hiding from Yoshimura but that is another story...

Not quite true, but we are just running around in circles at this point.

Bots have massive limitations, but if it is the best you can do, it is what it is. Better than nothing in the worst case, but often still worse than a reasonable amateur feeding multiball,

You have a right to your opinion, just as I have a right to mine. IT is not just slower and spinnier, it lacks the structure in terms of sponge and topsheet elasticity that most topspin players require for the modern game so you can send the ball in the direction of your topspin. You can be...

It doesn't stop you from being a good player, it just makes things harder and means you need to spend a lot of time retraining some things depending on how you intend to win and lose points. I switched from all wood blades with spinny control rubbers to faster blades with modern rubbers because...

I preach soft spin and consistency with am intent to transition to more power and consistency only because I find with adult learners, the problem isn't trying to hit hard, it is how to remain consistent when the hard stuff is missing the table. Those who become enamored with hitting hard...

While I didn't start ad old as you, I started in my mid to late 30s, though i was lucky to work with a stronger player/coach who got better as an adult and therefore could give me his own ideas which were different from just be taken through drills as a teenager or child. A lot about equipment...

We will see if playing two choppers in a row tires her out for tomorrow. But knowing how the ball slows down when playing choppers and knowing that consistency and ball control were super powers for Zhu, I had zero doubt she would beat the choppers when I saw the draw. Let's see if Tony's...

So it goes back to how someone intends to play. The point here is that Rozena has better characteristics than Mark V for someone who wants to play modern table tennis. Since you have more limits playing modern table tennis, your position is understandable. But let's not try to paint it as...

Nah, this is not true, the issue here is a property of the rubber. But again, if you want to see how I play, I have posted lots of videos. I cannot play that way with Mark V. I have no doubt about it. I can come closer with Rozena. It isn't entirely a speed thing. It is a matter of spin...

I haven't played with either in a while but the feeling of Rozena was also very different and was along the lines of how one would play with Tenergy. Mark V ,I used to like a lot as I played as a blocker and hitter with slower blades for a bit but my game with it was not power looping. The...

While it is a good win, Yokoi is not the player on the level that Hayata would be troubled by when she was prime. It starts and the Diaz/Szocs/Odo!/Harimoto/Shin level, basically top 10 maybe 20.

He had to find the feeling to avoid the Pitchford return game with quality.

Maybe, but i am.not one of them and I know people who use Sriver and Mark V. None of them are power looper. None of them focus on playing topspin loops repeatedly. When you play topspins loops with unglued Mar V or Sriver, you need to loop upwards to add topspin. Strokes that combine spin...

I could understand it to a good degree in the cell ball days when the ball was relatively easy to get moving and might have been harder to feel with carbon. But with the plastic ball sometimes I feel like I am playing tennis...

The materials that go into rubbers are relatively cheap so the marginal return on sales is likely very high while things like marketing and manufacturing are likely largely fixed costs with the incremental costs of materials relatively low vs what users pay for the rubbers.

Yes, the second time he said it, it was the Butterfly promotional video. But he had expressed a similar idea in his book that compiled his interviews over the years when speaking about rubber thickness for young players. He encouraged people to start with 2.0mm sponge at the minimum to Max...