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Don't worry, @zeio will soon run JNT and shake things up and they will get their chance...

The push as an attacker's weapon is designed to be played off a short ball. The reason is that it has a less distance to travel and often there is more opportunity to create angles, use speed and potentially keep the ball short. Playing it off a long ball takes speed out of the equation and...

Big leads completely unaffected by timeout calls to affect the momentum (because timeouts were never called) - my kind of TT match :ROFLMAO:.

Yep, this is a tactic I often use too. Definitely not as well as John does lol.

Hurricane 8-80 and Skyline 3-60 both have softer sponge if you are interested.

So this is my third match of the day and the best one that was played against an adult - it was the B vs C matchup to decide who qualified second in the group for the U2150. I tend to post the ones with kids less because they are young and don't need the visibility. Also was early enough that...

Well maybe I was wrong. I thought be was in Canada but I hear CA was really California so I got my places mixed up lol.

The backhand is not as flexible as the forehand in timing pushes, so if you don't practice backhand topspin against repeated chop or take the push off the short or half long return, it is very easy to miss by mistiming backhand topspins against pushes off long balls. It is very common to have...

Wow, Feng loses from 2-0, 9-6 to Kanak! Deuce in the 3rd, Deuce in the 4th, Kanak wins going away in the 5th. Crazy.

Of course video would have been good, but there is a reason why many people who post these things don't provide video - its because the video would show all the things they conveniently ignore to push their narrative. No one likes to lose to someone who appears to playing with less effort than...

It's definitely mindset to a great degree, everyone likes minimum effort and hates it when someone who doesn't look like they are trying is beating someone who is running up and down and looping the hell out of the ball. Table tennis is not a beauty contest unfortunately and no one wins any...

For some people who don't know a few things that might help a little: OP plays in Canada. This is a point that some people who are completely unfamiliar with Canada might overlook. With a 1950 Canada rating, OP might actually be between 2000 and 2200 in the USATT rating system. He is a solid...

To be fair, not necessarily, weirdness has hard to read elements that are just as valid in table tennis (which is psychology with strategy and tactics as much as it is athletic and technical). It just means you have a problem to learn about, but it doesn't speak to your fundamentals at all...

Togami beat Meng, for some reason, Ochenhausen plays a guy who defaults to Dima after winning the first point on serve, Kao Cheng Jui beats the younger Tiago Abiodun, and then Dima beats/destroys Togami. Lots of talent in the Bundesliga this year, probably a benefit of Russian sanctions still...

You can't go wrong with either. For reference, I use Skyline 3 on forehand, which is a slightly tacky rubber, but when I turn the racket over and loop with Dignics 05, my ball still stays on the table. A lot of the advantage of 09c is in the short game and over the table play, Dignics 05 does...

As someone who liked the YSE, I don't encourage lateral blade moves either. Your blade is fine. If you want to try a thicker 5 ply, a 7 ply, or a carbon blade, sure. But same blade speed is just changing lanes with no real difference.

The human body is a weird machine. My body is full of aches and pains but when I want to go play TT, I push out something into my bloodstream that makes feel no pain. Not good. I went to hit with my coach who is back in school. He said that compared to last year, he sees a jump in my...

Why curious? Isn't it some ALC blade with Hurricane on forehand and DHS/Dignics on backhand?

That explains it. Didn't need to go to expedite. The Japanese girls had more powerful forehands. Age and experience might play a minor role as well.

BTW, Britt Eerland takes 2 games off Yokoi - wish I could see that. Repeating for the umpteenth time I am happy she is back, we need such quality players in Europe. Wish she had won though.