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Yeah, I think they just aren't serial EJs like us, so they don't need to save money lol.

Usually true but not always true in my experience. Weird anomalies do happen.

In that case, we almost all buy fakes, no?

Buy it and try it, no?

Find a training partner, let him serve you the serves, and use your strokes and you will adapt quickly. One of the biggest mistakes in TT when people learn at an age where they have language skills is that they overly think about things that are best learned and mastered with trial and error...

I went into the gym where we meet up to play on Sunday. The dangers of EJing are creeping back into my game lol as I have 4 setups with which I play fairly indistinguishably. I took a lesson and actually managed to record some of it. Then I played my lefty hitting partner and as always it...

You're right. I do think that there are important differences between what tennis players do and what table tennis players do in terms of equipment, but in the end, if you feel confident that someone is building your rackets for you and you play well with them, then it probably saves time. I...

You will be surprised - the number of players around me who let third parties put together their setups is surprisingly high. So many good players, especially since speed gluing went away, don't put together their blade. Mind boggling to me but true.

Yeah, but it isn't necessarily more meaningful or more exciting to watch. And Felix and Dima compete favorably at that speed when their games are on, so I am okay with the comparison.

Takkyu brought this up and I agree, I just tend to separate the men and the women's games. And I could take the Asian Games match with Hayata-WYD as well. Not as prolonged a final set but very dramatic and historic as well.

With the plastic ball, I suspect they have made almost everything slightly faster.

This is the other match that qualifies for me. I wasn't really intrigued by Ma Long FZD at the Asian Champs but everyone is different for sure.

I usually don't mix the sexes with these awards but I can accept that, either of the two matches as a matter of fact.

Doing so will just make it clearer that there isn't much special about the shape and that it only sells blades that have good composition already.

I was hoping you would cite your match of the year contender.

Ah okay, I thought that Sweden had somehow had a large tour event in addition to hosting the Euros and the feeders with some money of which I was unaware. And a tour event had happened that I somehow didn't watch.

It does take long - the hours matter. One of the things about table tennis that caused frustration with players who don't have experience training and improving over long periods is they underestimate how long it can take to develop a skill to the point it becomes a weapon against the level of...

Continental points may not count as tour points.

The thing is that there are a lot of things that could cause this problem. A lot. I will give one that hasn't been already mentioned. Sometimes, the grip with which you play your backhand in practice may not end up being the grip you use in matches because your transition from serve to...

I did (since I don't remember which ones you were talking about). I will remember this one, though. A 17 year old blooming vs an all time great. Reminds me of the European Games final. But to be fair, the Asian Games blocked youtube splicing of all their matches so I have not had a chance...