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I know someone working on the problem and let me just say that for stroke technique, you might be surprised.

Depends on the playing level. I could argue that a basic robot has value for training all levels of movement. But this tool could cause serious problems for a player higher rated than even US 1500 IMHO. I would think even US 1000, but it depends I guess.

Oh I can see a lot of game reading landmines. The ball coming from a location where the serve did not go, the spin and speed on the returned ball not bring determined by the serve, no visual cue to read spin on the turn etc. But maybe there are some benefits. I find that people csn improve...

So I wrote about this adult learner earlier in the thread (he is around 2400 USATT now) - he just got semi-finals at O30 and finalist at O40 at the US Nationals. Here is the finals match of the O40 and the semi-finals match from the 040 as well.

I sent a French co-worker a video of Felix Lebrun. She said that she was happy for France but she had absolutely no clue what was going on and the action was too fast for her to follow. Sometimes, we forget how subjective the beauty of sports is.

So there is a TT channel that regularly feature a Vietnamese champion, To Duc Hoang. Worth following and watching, the guy is really insightful. Subtitles with translation to English are good. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd-kkjZMwOehqEupZxyAz9g

Interesting. Shandong Weiqao clearly has 2 #1s, maybe 3, and an amazing balance between lefties and righties, no other team can boast that, though it depends on how you rate Xu Xin and Zhou Kai for Shanghai. Ma Long also has a way of making the young ones like Yuan Licen and Xu Yingbin play...

Because the rules currently say within the blade, not the outer ply. Blades like this have been sketchy in the past.

Of course, but we are not pro players, so you can be confident that most players are not serving short unless they prove it to you consistently. But it takes the awareness that your errors may just be about the length of the serve to even change your mind. It may sound crazy, but even pro...

When I die, bury me inside the playing hall! When I die, bury me inside the playing hall! All I want for my birthday is a bat and a ball!! All I want for my birthday is a bat and a ball!! :ROFLMAO:

It is usually easier to push long if the ball comes half-long and you can see it is NOT coming off. But you don't have to loop a ball with second bounce on the table, you just aren't stuck over the table popping it up and recovering. The main thing is just don't trust the tightness of serves...

They ask what I do and who I do it for, And all this other stuff up in the playing hall, All I want for my birthday is a bat and a ball, All I want for my birthday is a bat and a ball!

It is just fun/addiction. And I play doubles and fun games as well. Just not as many willing participants at the level I play and the movement demands in doubles are greater for someone as arthritic as myself. I play how I want to play. As I said, if I wanted to win. I would play with pips...

Fun is my primary objective - if it wasn't fun, I wouldn't do it. In fact, in many cases, I have just hit the ball without playing competitive matches because I enjoy hitting the ball. Competitive matches can heighten the senses, but very often, I play the way I want to play, not the way that...

Sometimes with level differences it is not about your technique. That said, varying serve returns is very important but I suspect if you were popping up thr serve. It had more topspin than you realized. I find that for me, I can loop kill short topspin to the forehand if it is high. The...

For me it is clearly the primary objective, I am addicted to the sport. There is no real reward - it is all just fun. Some social mixing as well, but that is primarily fun too.

Yes, I actually started hitting the ball a certain way on my backhand and tried to transfer it to my forehand. I like to catch the ball on the outside and then turn my forearm/wrist over it or upwards. That is my highest quality stroke ( low trajectory fast side-topspin - barely hops over the...

Well, explain what it means for how someone's technique should develop and then you have tried.

So assuming this is true, what are we to draw from this for how we should hit the ball?

So this I suspect is what I am doing (strokes 3 and 4 at the end of this video) but I need to record it. And because I stand upright, I need to minimize upper arm movement or the ball goes long. And mine seems to have a lot of sidespin when I slow it down lol...