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Borgar, the Boll of Norway, benefiting from that Dusseldorf training. Hope he continues the upward progress - this is a great result for him.

Jorgic and Franz are clubmates, it will just be their daily practice streamed on YouTube lol.

Anyone who can loop all long balls is well beyond 1500. Same with responding to difficult balls in more than one way. In fact bringing back difficult balls is enough to get you 1500.

So today was a tournament day. I wanted to support the local tournament and entered 3 events. U2150, U1900 and the giant round robin. I wasn't sure whether it was smart to play with a bigger and more critical event a week away but I am an addicted TT nerd so who cares... peaking is for pros...

My conclusion watching pros and matches is that above the 1800 level, everyone is doing the same old stuff, they just do it better and faster and with higher ball quality. And when just about anything you do becomes overwhelming relative to the level you usually play at, if you can introduce it...

Is it healthy to play 18 matches in one day?

One of my friends (he also posts here, @Brs) said that when he went to a coaching camp in Europe to train, he was told by the instructors that they wouldn't work with him in volleyball shoes and that he needed to wear table tennis shoes to get the value out of the lessons. I thought initially...

I believe OP is over 60, though the answer I would give him is still the same. I just tried ro make it more relevant. Another possibility (not sure it is available to him) is to find and play a 2000+ level player and coach on a regular basis and try to play longer rallies. Getting more...

The thing is that it isn't really "drills". It is doing things that win points and figuring out how to stop the things that people use to win points against you. While I agree with @Jslick89 that how you develop your game might make it harder to get better, the truth is that as long as you...

Improving is more about developing ways that are adequate to win points vs the level of opposition you need to beat. There are quite a few reasonable ways to improve up to 1500, most of them are not about quality drills. Serve and third ball attack behind your key serves should be the main...

I suspect the reason Matsushima is not in Lima is that the crazy rules restricting entries are back in effect. Good luck getting to LA 2028, Sora!

It's a 100% valid approach. It isn't without risk though just like anything in TT. Story: Kristian Karlsson changed to Hurricane for a while as a developing player to work on his forehand. The challenge with changing is that sometimes, habits are developed that may not translate. So you need...

Richard Prause I believe started at 12 and still made top 60 in the world.

Money and success are always relative. If her brother is doing interesting stuff at NASA, maybe she can see a path in her studies to things far greater than she can get to in TT. She is already an Olympian. What is the next step? Multiple? She wants a medal. If the medal is too far away...

Yes. I wrote about it a while back, you may have missed it. I think it was Paris TT13 or something like that. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/daily-table-tennis-chit-chat.13168/post-467994

That's definitely a reasonable interpretation. I consider the alternative reasonable as well. While it isn't everything, there is a case to be made that overturning/beating the old guard is truly revolutionary, especially when you have lost to the previously - it is a kind of wall-breaking...

Be careful, it isn't politically correct to accuse or blame the victim and given that men are usually the instigator of these kinds od crimes, it is often wrong as well. Better to just wait for more evidence.

You have been given a technical apology by me and asked to explain your substantive differences. In a forum where people can say whatever they want without having to prove anything, it doesn't get much better than that unless you actually substantiate what you are saying with some evidence...

OKay - I have derailed the thread :(. I am proud of FZD. At least, he is a complete player - I think for me, if he wins two more WTTC in singles, that would be enough for me. And maybe another OG. But two more WTTC in singles would do it for me. I don't think anyone can equal ML's tour...

One can speak of impact on the game for sure and I doubt anyone can argue that Federer didn't have the biggest impact on the game in the 2000s (again, the second best player for much of his dominance was Andy Roddick), and then later when Nadal came on the scene, Nadal captured the public...