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Interesting how I never knew this had happened:

Dropping the racket with the hand to the knee to loop is not quite correct. But that said technique is for everyone to figure out. The right approach to lowering the body is to use lunges or squats to engage the legs combined with a minor folding of the torso. Then you spin the legs forwards...

The closer you play to the table, the harder ir is to apply power to the ball because the distance to travel is smaller and the ball still has more of the existing energy of the opponent. Even when the ball is high sometimes, the ball has too much energy for you to direct it on the table. It...

Table tennis is like life, there is always another boss waiting after you defeat the current one. It is like chess, you have to plan a few moves ahead, the difference being that in table tennis, you need to develop the skills to get to the next move before the next move makes sense. You just...

Even the old Hurricane, if you used ir for a bit the tackiness became less unless you used protector sheets. It is ultimately about whether you have the ability to support playing with it. Some people don't like the way the tacky rubbers block but I am not high level enough to care and I now...

I feel the same way and I use the regular Hurricanez not the Neo.

So if we take the rankings literally and estimate Kanak as being An Jaehyun's peer, Kanak is still roughly top 40 strength,

An Jaehyun rewrote table tennis history with that win. That's the way it seems now.

I need to watch more Ma Jinbao too if that is what it takes lol!

Odo just looks more complete, though these things are not just about the player, they are also about the competition. Odo would be on any first national team outside of China and Japan.

His whole Bundesliga team got into the draw here, so I think this is a special case.

Yeah, I actually sometimes do a similar shot, when played against heavy topspin, it is a legit counter, the practice you did at 3:05 to 3:11 when he is actually looping into it with various degrees of spin and you are doing it is more when you should be using that shot. I also have a Nigerian...

Work on the service then. If pros are struggling with reading no spin serves, you can't be just struggling to get bad returns because your opponents are reading perfectly. I suspect the really issue is that your backspin serve is not heavy enough. .

No. Unusual shots are a relative weapon at all levels, as long as they are not preventing you from developing your overall game. The shot doesn't seem that flat to be honest, it will be interesting to see whether you can maintain it vs higher levels of spin.

People who want to pretend thar long pips can turn water into wine want to eat their cake and have it. In reality, any long pips that is less predictable also plays more and more like short pips or inverted with maybe a few more ball deadening abilities. It's possible for pips users to do...

The slice shot against incoming backspin you mean. Not against incoming topspin. People who don't know you don't know you are trolling on purpose.

Yes this is correct, but is entirely dependent on the incoming spin and is rarely if ever "heavy". I agree that reading the ball as if it is an inverted ball is the biggest problem, but that is not just about spin inversion but about the float ball as well.

These things are all debates, but the GOAT in his prime doesn't necessarily mean the highest level of play ever achieved. I still consider the single best tournament ever played to be Waldner in 1997 in Manchester (won all his matches without dropping a game). And I also rate 2011 Ma Long...

Usually, it would kill the spin on the ball - it is a chop block that produces heavy underspin, it is hard to hit a topspin ball with pips and create heavy backspin. In any case, you are the expert in what you have experienced, thanks for sharing.

I thought Yokoi would avenge the last tournament but alas, after going up 2-0 and I Stopped watching, I find she lost 2-3. Seriously? Odo, whenever I watch her, I keep seeing a smaller Hirano and for my mental attitude, I think it works.