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I love this sport, there is a style for everyone who wants to work at it.

Trying to play ay the same level in matches that you do in training is dangerous. Unless in training your coach is trying to make you play worse, it is not like a match at all. In a match the opponent is trying to win too, all he needs to find is one thing you do not like and you cannot avoid...

I agree very much with this, I respect Mizutani and Niwa'a results and I get the skepticism tied to Matsushima's failure to dominate domestically, but I don't understand why understand why and when we started writing off 16 year olds based on that. On the foreign leagues question, I think the...

I think the general public has high standards, though to be fair, Yu Ziyang did beat Mizutani as a 16 year old (yes, with mild controversy) and never went on to bigger things for whatever reason. How many of the guys who finished above him in the U19 trials would beat Togami in a match? Just...

I am making assumptions around how you want to play (two-winged looping) and how you should optimally develop (trial and error with a focus on spin). To get good pace with slower equipment, people feel the need to swing harder and this can compromise technique. It can be just as efficient...

That's a good level. It would be interesting to see why you think your serve was the culprit.

It depends on the coach and the player to be honest and a bit on the specific blade and rubber. If the coach is teaching proper hitting and spinning technique and wants to develop the player a certain way, let the coach do that as long as the coach has a path because everyone does it...

Is there any way to get those Nexy skullcap jerseys? I still get compliments when I wear that shirt and not even when I am playing TT lol.

I think you are turning a matter of competence into a matter of "fight". I think ultimately, you need players who are ready to combine the athletic aspects of TT with the mental and tactical aspects. And IMHO, Harimoto and Matsushima are the closest thing in recent times since Mizutani and...

Sunday/tomorrow, the gym where we meet is closed for school use, and my coach is playing a tournament so I had to meet him on Friday at a friend's house to train a bit. Took my camera but forgot my disk so I couldn't record still. We did warmup first for strokes on both sides, and during...

Did you record your matches? I find that it is very hard to be objective about why you win or lose matches without objective insight which you can connect to, which is usually a combination of coaching and video evidence. When you lose from being up 2-0, it is rarely all about you, the...

It's going to be interesting with many dimensions. I wonder whether WMY has a chance of becoming vulnerable as that would eliminate her from OG singles unless China wants the pairing risk.

While this isnt the ideal thread to ask this, here is my opinion: ditch the blade and get something faster. Those blades made far more sense with the plastic ball, now they will largely encourage upper arm overuse and feed lopsided table tennis strokes to less experienced players - it is hard...

Hayata should now be JNT ITTF ranked #1 after Muscat.

Thanks. Beating Redzimski is not a walk in the park either but it is not Lebrun. And the other thing is that he is a year younger. No one knows the future but the kid is doing well for sure. Sora the explorer....

Luann Jingkun matches up with WCQ reliably well. It all depends on whether rhet will play in the same draw.

The forehands he made in that match were amazing. Completely unlike Pitchford to be honest. :ROFLMAO: The movement to cover the angles hit a different level.

Only LGY and LJK played, LGY was visibly injured in the QF and retired up 2-1, LJK missed the semis entirely vs Zhou Kai because of injury.

XD is fundamentally about how dominant the male player can be and how well the female can defend the male opposing player's shots, even when the female is the relatively higher ranked player. I get the Harimoto/Matsushima optics but I don't subscribe to them. Those teams will only be as good...

He's not winning the next Olympics but I wonder where his age stands amongst national champs in Chinese history...