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He lives in this imaginary world where just hitting a ball with pips is all it takes. He doesn't want to learn so he makes pips sound like magic to live in his fantasy world. If I got to play him, I would just use pips so he would give up. In general, pips without friction are harder to hit...

So she is Japanese, she is almost never going to have a chance to get an international ranking in the top 30 unless she has a really strong streak in a domestic tournament. Or she gets the money to sponsor herself and then some. If you consider chopping an equipment fluke (see Ganna Gaponova...

What do you consider an average pro player? Just to be clear here.

Again, you mean that Qian Tianyi has never lost to choppers before, and because of that we should ban chopping with pips? And should we ban chopping with pips as well if a player struggles badly against it? I promise you, you have no chance against a chopper without training against chop. So...

I will be honest, playing with my paddle against my co-workers at the company tournament, I did ask myself this question...

He just lacks the kind of insightfulness you would get from a really good player or high level coach if you have ever spoken to one. He mostly parrots banal things, sometimes out of context. He is usually translating or passing through stuff without any real insight into it. No serious coach...

That is fine - he is clearly a quack to anyone with insight - your opinion is more informed than his. So "Even ERT says" should only be used when you mean "even a guy who fakely claims to be a TT expert says"...

The point is to stop citing ERT as an authority - he isn't a reliable source for good TT insight. This is a completely separate point from whether you think pips should not be allowed or not. Maybe they should to protect your mental health.

I could also argue that tacky rubbers should be banned because the produce weird trajectories. Especially Hurricane. Most people just accept the existence of such things as part of TT.

So in other words, you made it up?

Can you give a source for that? Want to see whether you are just another ERT which is why you like him so much.

Played league today. The first set of matches were round Robin best of 3. I won one 2‐0 and another 2‐1. In the next round, I faced a young guy who took me to deuce in the 5th at the tournament in May. This time he beat me 3‐2. The game got away from me in the 5th as he got more aggressive...

I have lost both when I have and have not taken a timeout. Also have won in both situations, much more often than losing.

If you played Idesawa 10 times, how many matches do you think you would win? The T-League is brutal. Don't confuse someone struggling in the T- league with their playing level. She would easily be top 100. More likely top 30. Maybe you think world class is top 5 or something.

ERT is really stupid for saying this to be honest and it is the kind of thing that makes people realize he is not really an informed fan of the sport. Idesawa is a world class player in every way - how many players ever get to play for their junior national team or in T-:League, talk less of...

It's obviously how TT evolved and the role of spin and the table size, some people think that inverted ruined the sport. In tennis, the racket technology has evolved over time as well, but the role of spin and the ball speed is not the same as in table tennis, so you could give Nadal a...

The score at 10‐7 (and before that 10‐ whatever that led to the timeout) is already a high probability of success score, even without the timeout.

Can you post a link to where you answered the questions? It seems no one can find your answers yet you claim you wrote them. Can you point out where I said that a 1200Hz paddle is 33% faster than a 1500Hz paddle so people can understand where you got that from? I usually don't find it worth...

@brokenball, These questions.

As a lady (junior national team, dual inverted close to the table topspin) told a guy who liked to go all-out forehand and had no backhand so he couldn't play close to the table, "You run around too much, go play tennis!"