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I never said you couldn't play with two rackets. You could even play with tennis rackets if that is your thing. People play table tennis with cell phones and clipboards for fun. I played with planks of wood as rackets multiple times as a child - never learned to spin heavy until I was in my...

I wouldn't recommend this unless you can be really consistent with it, it is just better to either accept the rally or to place the shot better. Unless your rating is massively different from what you have already presented, there is likely to be a gap of sorts between what you are perceiving...

Okay. You are still not citing any laws, just making up your own interpretations. I will end it here, have fun with the new style. People can read the rules and decide why ITTF consistently refers to "the racket" and "the free hand" and whether the purpose was to allow for the possibility of...

Here are the laws if anyone is interested. They begin on page 38 in the pdf. One can decide after reading them whether I am being "narrow-minded" or just better informed. https://documents.ittf.sport/sites/default/files/public/2023-06/2023_ITTF_Statutes_clean_version.pdf

2.5. 6 The free hand is the hand not carrying the racket; the free arm is the arm ofthe free hand. 2.5. 7 A player strikes the ball if he or she touches it in play with his or her racket, held in the hand, or with his or her racket hand below the wrist. You're a smart guy but if you want to...

Well, again, most of the rules, when you read them, are written with the logic that a player is only permitted to use one racket. If you switch rackets from one hand to another for example, then you are changing rackets in a way that the rules did not expect. Free hands when tossing serves for...

The way the ITTF rules work, it isn't always through banning actions that rules are made, sometimes rules are made by logical interpretations of how the laws are written. Of course, the rules that are not enforceable or badly enforced exist, but that is a different issue from an act being...

Most of the ITTF rules imply one racket. It will be interesting to see whether there will be an interpretation that allows more than one racket to be used during a match. Remember, there are rules against changing rackets during matches. On the results: you continue to make it sound like it...

So with this likely illegal style, which player have you beaten that you couldn't already beat? Curious.

The backhand topspin is primarily what I have in mind but it applies to all strokes - this is the video that illustrates the main concept later in it. You don't have to use his precise technique though if you did, given his backhand reputation at his peak, that is not a bad thing at all. He...

People coach and teach these things differently so there are no magic answers. I honestly don't have a confident forehand push either, I am more like Dima, I usually backhand push serves no matter where they are placed because I am tall and my backhand push is much heavier unless I know where...

I hear you. I have my objections to this, but sometimes, objections based on personal experience are just bias, not objective evidence. And since you have provided an example of one high level player/coach who subscribed to this approach, I really just have to accept your informed perspective...

Competition is better for sure in the JNT though I don't think other than Harimoto, there are any Mizutani level players. I am still confused though how a 16 year old is being knocked for losing to 19 year olds in competitions as evidence of his inability to compete on level playing ground. And...

The LP clearly make the statement ridiculous lol.

3‐0 (3‐2, 3‐2, 3‐0) https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/26th-asian-table-tennis-championship.31859/post-422793 Sorry I thought you said China and Taipei, I misread. Not sure if or when that match will be played.

If we are taking these arguments clearly made in jest seriously, the Matsushima losses are all clearly to much older players, it is a bit weird to normalize them with arguments. Matsushima had competed favorably with Lebrun at the U15 level. Of course he might not meet the ridiculous standard...

Uda is not the answer either, they just have to un-retire Mizutani and invest in Matsushima.

It's a standard table tennis tactic, you need to both learn to implement it and defend against it. In fact, when I am clear thinking and down to a lower rated player, it is my first go to, short forehand, long backhand. The second is wide backhand, down the line to forehand or wide forehand...

I can believe these guys knew how to strawberry or would have gotten there regardless. I still find it an open question whether inverted and the extra spin it produced was a net positive for table tennis.

Get Mizutani to unretire!