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Crazy that a match this good has so few views... https://youtu.be/YqmKp_yaeos

Even crazier, Chen Xingtong beat Chen Meng... is age causing decline...

Wow. Yuan Licen beat Zhou Kai.. would never have guessed it.

Yeah, when I tell people that I will only take seriously the comments of someone whose play I have seen, it isn't necessarily about their playing level, but more about understanding how they see table tennis and whether they have struggled enough with the sport to understand how to communicate...

Something doesn't look quite right but I am not sure the right comments to fix it since you have the spinal injuries and this might be pretty good because of those. It will be hard to make commentary without understanding how you feel about your stroke and what you are trying to do. IF you hit...

Everyone has off days - this is the guy I was thinking about when I made the comp - he is holding back because of his opposition but you can see what is in play here... https://youtu.be/qHkvrjDBcv0?t=88

There are approximations of it per the math yes, but in reality no, especially if you are hitting the ball hard. When you swing your arm, does the paddle go north to south? All your joints are circular. What most people care about is hitting the ball fairly straight with topspin. How you do...

No one does a clean, 12-6 loop, the people who do can't hit the ball hard once it has topspin on it or have to let it drop. You can hit the ball with a full contact, but then you have to hit it slowly, But the real thing is to be able to hit the ball straight. you can do that even if isn't a...

Some of these things are the reasons why people get back injuries, despite their fitness level (Dima and Timo and even Zhang Jike are not exceptions and I am also speaking from personal experience). You have to be careful with what you copy from people. Carl has explained to you that it is...

Guys who are as big and tall as Nick, in my playing experience, when they play their backhand, it is abusive (they can get away with upper body strength). And the fact that Nick squats to play that backhand with his height is impressive and makes the backhand even more abusive (they are adding...

What are your injuries related to?

You have to use some hip, you don't have to twist the hip. you can just thrust it slightly. but in any case most basic backhands tend to be reasonable. It's easier to fix something that someone presents than to go on forever about what they should be doing because there are many reasonable...

There is room for debate here. There are many different styles. Away from the table, the hip rotation might help more, but close to the table, you hardly see any hip rotation on Ma Long or Harimoto's strokes. Or even Dima because you just don't have time if you are close to the table and...

FZD the tough grader probably gave that a 10 lol...

In terms of solutions, the high level and correct solution is to play both forehand and backhand with the help of the lower body and to train the lower body to quickly prepare both shots. It still requires training to do this anyways. A lot of well studied and though out footwork and stroke and...

It's a common problem. Even Harimoto had/has it, to give you perspective of how deep the problem can be, and there are articles on how hard he has worked with a Chinese coach to bring balance and flexibility to his forehand while maintaining a backhand dominant game.. You can't improve a...

When a ball has less topspin than desired, there are two possible changes - 1. Change the stroke plane (which is what you are largely doing). 2. Chance the contact point while going to the same finishing position ( which is what I force you to do were I coaching you in person but at that ship...

I would agree with this if 1)I was working with Dominik in person and 2) if table tennis was a fundamentally intellectual activity. However table tennis is a fundamentally physical activity. And if is hard to correct physical imperfections that you intuit purely by explaining things in...

It is easier to answer these questions if you just practice quickly, post video, get feedback. Usually the topspin takes the form of a modified hit. So a topspin that comes from a modified hit is more natural to you than a topspin that tried to copy how you think a topspin should look.

Thus is a mixed bag and yes I suspect the balls you are playing against are no spin balls. Not sure what your situation is that prevents you from finding a club or real players. But you should still learn to hit that ball standardly rather than try to topspin it. Because the ability to adjust...