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I hear you, sometimes if the opportunity exists to pay the right coach even if the coach is expensive, it is worth it. But I hear you 100%, some coaches don't really invest anything in teaching adults proper/better technique. They think it is a lost cause, though sometimes, adults can be hard...

A coach will take you through a thought process and give you real time feedback. A really good coach can also take what you naturally do and make it better rather than install a foreign approach that is entirely new to you if you already have something worth building on ( though a coach might...

Most of my use of hips when playing backhand is in the backward and forward direction but it is more bowing and straightening. You can try that and decided whether it is weight transfer from left to right. I used to twist more.but I found it too slow for fast backhand rallying and harder to...

You don't finish your strokes in "salute" or traditional finishing positions. The salute or traditional finishing positions on forehand and backhand are required to learn optimal whip mechanics and direct your spin and spin efficiently into the ball. Right now these circular motions without...

If every use of the body becomes called weight transfer, weight transfer will become a meaningless and confusing term to specific learners who want to use it to gain insight into how to use their body to play strokes.

Good to see your progress. A couple of comments that I might expand on later: Neither your forehand nor your backhand are truly textbook. They are both viable for what they do, but they have limitations for generating truly heavy spin because you are playing too much from the shoulder and not...

It has been interesting reading these "debates"/"arguments". One of the things I learned pretty quickly when I trained table tennis was that if the hips/legs do not result in a significant movement of the chest/shoulder in the purported direction of movement, their contribution is debatable to...

So how many number one picks are there? Only Harimoto? Since there is at least a #1 pick every year in the NBA draft where 64 player are selected every year to join the 450 in the NVA, you mean that out of lots of TT players that play in the ITTF tour, Harimoto is the only #1 you can list...

One of the unstated assumptions is that there is nothing in inverted setups that could be used to play these hitting styles maybe in thinner sponge. It might be correct, but it might also be wrong. People shouldn't assume that banning these rubbers means that the users will go to fast inverted...

It's hard to find an analogy for Harimoto in NBA - a great player as a junior from whom great things were expected, but who hasn't won a big title (yet). Maybe Anthony Edwards only because he is young enough to not have a clear future? At this stage in his career, I would actually compare...

My opinion is that Harimoto had clear issues even when being developed that he will have great hurdles overcoming but that he is working hard at trying to overcome them. I honestly don't know what his full potential would have been had he been born and trained in China. Just because he did...

I think you are correct. I would argue that 95% of this follows if you get your arm backswing into the proper shape and let it move over a very short distance with whip mechanics, so I just focus on making sure the arm mechanics are right and then let people figure out the body on their own...

The comparison shows the level of delusion but whatever... whenever assessing Harimoto, it is important to point out which non-Chinese players are doing the things you claim Harimoto should be doing. Chinese dominance is the real theme of recent times, not Harimoto failure.

Talented people, assuming they are accurately evaluated whatever that may mean, fail to maximize their talent often and it is not a big deal except to the clever dick hairsplitters who make it a big deal. Morevover, anyone who had tried to seriously improve at table tennis knows that losing...

At a certain point, replying to TensorBackhand is more a luxury than a necessity, his one track approach to argument ignoring facts that don't suit his narrative is well documented. Lin Yun Ju almost lost to Sora ad well, Sora is clearly a good player but Harimoto is clearly the Japanese #1...

I don't think the matchup will help him but I think being able to out backhand Liang Jingkun is good enough for me.

Not something to be taken seriously.

The thing is that there are also many backhand topspin techniques. What I consider the classic one that most people who just want to spin should learn is the one that coach Hoang teaches here. If you can do this technique, then you can evolve to other variations later. But if your backhand...

It was more like the shots that were winning points in the last match kept coming back and that Miwa had to deal with game 5 Sun Yingsha from the last match all through this match. It didn't look like a bashing but the scoreline just showed it was.

Very ugly for Miwa... Looks like all the enemies of China are being crushed underfoot...