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If we are to believe his training partner, he used to lose to his double inverted training partner who mimicked Waldner in practice all the time. So whether his advantage was the ceiling of his equipment or the Chinese training system that gave him a practice partner to optimize his game, I'll...

Citizenship is not the same thing as sponsoring association, it's quite possible that Ma Jinbao is playing on the tour because he is approved by the USATT, which is what would give him the ranking as an American. But he might not be an American citizen which is required to play in the Olympics...

In a country like Japan, that makes them 2750+ and 2600+ respectively at their peak, style matchups and other variances permitting. BTW, even with his lack of backhand, I have always felt Gucci was at least 2200.

Haha. Which partly makes the point of my post (and yours). But calcified agendas are afoot...

Gucci, the master of no backhand loop amateur table tennis.

Luckily, the US team got its best doubles pairing with Amy and Rachel qualifying though I would have had absolutely no beef with Sally qualifying if she did. Rachel at least beat Tiffany in the rematch yesterday and of course knew she had to win the match that should also have been played...

Ping Sunday realizes that many amateurs who are not in good TT environments are so starved for official TT knowledge that they will believe stuff that a faceless guy will say under the guise it is secret knowledge from China.

This will be a raw test of CNT first team power below WCQ.

Alexis beats Felix (again) In other news, water is wet....

A lot of it comes down to playing better players, it forces you to know your limits. It is often not a bad idea after a heavy backspin serve against a lower rated player to push it back if it comes to an uncomfortable place to reset the rally and you are saving energy. But against a better...

Sun Mingyang was one of the Ito clones, right? She hits the ball pretty hard, a more powerful rallying game than Ito I think.

I should give it some consideration, the problem is that extended fasting is stressful and without vacation time, it is on top of everything I am already going through. Life was so much easier before the kids came... But I should think about it at some point, maybe schedule some days in second...

I just watched the last 3 matches you posted and I see what you mean. My comments are still relevant, but you do attack more consistently in that video because you are your opponent are more similar in playing style. Good touch is a mixed compliment for someone who pushes and blocks a lot of...

Today was interesting. Kanak won a thrilling game over Jishan Liang, Jishan showed me a level of TT that maybe he had reached in some victories over European players but which I was skeptical he was routinely capable of. His backhand play overall in the match was the best I had ever seen him...

So I have lamented a few times here about the pains of being unable to move. I started taking collagen supplements and while I am not sure whether they work or not, I have to accept I feel somewhat better and will continue to use them for at least the next six months. Last Sunday was the 3rd...

I was going to recommend going to Rakza Z but it might be too heavy for him and I don't know whether he has a strength problem. But he should consider using his legs to drive the ball more. He has good rubbers but he needs something that makes him take confident and powerful swings, he seems...

Here are my recommendations: I think you have good touch, I think you don't play aggressively for the first attack or understand the broad rules of modern table tennis that high level players follow. Basically high level players serve to get opportunity to attack or return to prevent the...

Will watch the videos and respond but your comment on softer rubber is not quite correct - softer rubber is more forgiving when you don't put energy into the stroke. Harder sponge is more forgiving when you put energy, but if you don't put energy, it can punish you because if is hard to spin...

The EJ carousel never ends...

If you hate boosting, play with it for a week. After a week decide. But do know that you won't get as much speed initially, but you need to compensate with activity. But the issue is that the loss of speed is too much for many players to initially accept if they don't play with power and...