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I would blame your blades, but I might be giving you too little credit. You need a fast carbon looping blade something between a Viscaria and a Mizutani SZLC I think. But the spin is mostly in the topsheet to be honest, I probably brush too much lol. But I can't see why someone would like...

Not a fan of PS, it isnt as linear as I would like. The original Golden Tango is just more WYSIWYG.

All jokes aside, improved serving is the quickest way to get to play with players above your level. But it takes just as much time and coaching as anything else, the difference is that the impact on points is immediate and the better players will do things that force you to do more. But the...

Something must be wrong with my technique with MK and K3, the rubber just feels like it doesn't take my power. Golden Tango does almost the same thing but with much more spin for my technique.

There are levels to getting used to serves so serve improvement is usually serve and third ball improvement. Sometimes getting the serve back on the table is enough, but with reasonable practice, the third ball will place pressure on the returner to tighten the return. Very few players as you...

There are people who would argue that Sampras is the greatest ever with some justification and he was clearly the greatest player of his era and probably of any era. Players can't entirely control the rule changes that affect their era. I am old enough to see how equipment changes and travel...

Greatest ever no, but that's because he has a peer/peers that had quantifiably better results on the same era. But he was World champion, Olympic Champion and World Cup winner, and arguably the best server of the hidden serve era. He was/is one of the all time greats, it is an open question...

The coach that improved my game the most, he did very little general training. Very little. He would mostly watch me play matches, see what he felt was losing me thr most points. and work on it. His students always were the fastest improving players in the club. There are many ways to win...

It's usually as simple as varying playing distance depending on the results you are getting against the opponent. If you are doing really well, holding the table is not a problem. But if the opponent is sometimes faste than you, giving yourself a bit more time by taking a step back and...

It was probably unpredictable in the sense that as a pip, one could smash more easily with it than you could with inverted.

I imagined as much, the TT scene for good players is not that large in any country.

By having more even rebound through all points on the blade. Composites tend to have relatively even rebound but they can be made to bend relatively more based on various features of how they are lined up with the grain of the plies of wood and even the choice of wood. And wood can be made to...

Any plans to play in the TTDSL so we can get that video? ;)

Going to be in Canada (Ontario) for a few days. Hoping to get some TT in!

Some coaches would argue that the above technique has too much upper arm. Some would prefer a more bent elbow, some would prefer a lower and more forward finish. There are many reasonable ways to play a forehand topspin. But there are many wrong ways as well. You need to find one of the...

Those are decent forehands for what they are but they are not quite what an advanced coach would teach you to swing like for a forehand topspin. There are many different reasonable approaches and they focus more on generating spin or power but power in consistent spin and speed, not so much...

Your game is very advanced, I won't have much insight as you are probably a better player than I am. The things I would recommend may not even apply to your game. The biggest one I would try to add is a spin-orientation in addition to a speed orientation. You seem to me to be a physically...

Yes, I was talking about him.

While I haven't seen you play, I suspect none of us have more power than Liang Jingkun or Fan Zhendong who don't use all wood blades either. It's not just about power. I am not sure what the YEO balance is, but I would assume the heaviest you can get and feel comfortable playing with is best.

I agree with this, but I would add that unusual styles are not the sole province of pips rubbers. You can play unusual hitting styles with inverted as well and even chop block and hit dead balls, you just need to embrace the riskiness of your style and use rubbers that make it easier, maybe...