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As you start older, it gets even more important. You can't time hits well enough to feel consistent - with spin, you have an easier way to calibrate your balls.

Fred is quite beatable. BrS has pointed out the tactical elements. Fred has no forehand. If a guy doesnt lunge or turn his body to play a forehand it is usually a large tell (I don't so I know). You could have tested it with longer serves with side backspin reverse. See whether he can get those...

Still watching the Shaun match, that is definitely a different level of player from the matches you have generally shared. Seems to be using some kind of medium pips on his backhand. The comments below are for the Shaun match. You played well, the opponent is very formidable. The disparity in...

Improvement is hardly linear, you can suck for a while, and your game can still be headed in the right direction. You can think of your game as being like the stock market or an inflationary economy. As long as you train, and sometimes even when you don't, things will get better. If you focus...

I endorse all this now I read it carefully, I think where there can be subtle confusion is that we often discuss strokes in TT by describing what the racket does, and many people then focus on the size of the stroke by watching the arm, but the truth is that proper use of the core can send the...

The standard coaching advice at the lower levels (and I have heard it from high level players) is usually to balance backswing and follow through. Usually, it is an attempt to make students to understand the importance of the backswing and if this story works, I endorse it. However in practice...

In writing the below, let's remember, first and foremost, table tennis is a game that is practiced and played. The below just gives you a story to work with since adults often need stories, but a story doesn't replace the practice hours, and many people have other useful stories and may...

At the highest levels, yes, they propel the shoulder joint with the whole body, so the way they optimally use their body to play backspin is not so much about bat and swing angle (which is largely the focus in the learning stages), but in building up the core muscles to make efficient movements...

One of my favorite players to watch is... Bernadette Szocs. Not for the reasons most people like to watch her. She consciously talks about spinning thr ball and moving in circles and you can see it on how she hits the ball a s in the use of her core. She often has an exaggerated circle on her...

Not at all. While that is ZJK-ML an old match, watch any good player using the principle of body (core) and circle (stroke path). No matter what you think of their stroke/level, if they are playing good table tennis, the body is powering the arm to generate speed and you can see it. The other...

Smaller circles and less power. Smaller circles and less power. Getting stronger with the core and legs so you can do more with less. Better timing so that you can throw that power over shorter distances.. But if you don't have the right technique or rather, the right connection between body...

Wrighty, A lot of my main comments have been made already, but I would start with trying to get you to hit a fullbody stroke in practice. Unfortunately, my former internet coach has removed all his videos from the internet, but I am a believer that taking your most power CIRCULAR shot...

Kanak just beat Hugo 3-0. People still think Kanak beating Karlsson was a huge upset?

It's the beauty of sport. Basketball: put ball into rim. Football/soccer: kick ball in between posts. Tennis: hit ball onto opponent's side of court Table tennis: play ball on the opponent's side on table. What they don't say: "the opponent gets to hit the ball too, and that makes your...

One drill I used to try (I used it more when I coached, because I couldn't find someone to train with who consistently wanted to serve to me): 1 topspin long serve 1 nospin long serve 1 backspin long serve 1 sidespin long serve 1 short backspin serve (which you need to push short or maybe flick...

The crazy thing is that I referred to that video in an earlier version of my response to LDM7.

Nothing I am saying here is really my original thinking, it is plagiarized stuff.The thing is that the pros (as servers) mix up half long short and half long long serves, and they use the variation to get easy balls off returns that attempt to drop long serves short - usually, the decision to...

You ask a lot of questions, I am tempted to provide answers, but I also realize that my answers may not be that helpful to you because they are without context. So I will focus on serve return and leave the rest for some other time. There is no amount of talking that will fix serve return...

That's the thing about coaching, everyone does it differently. For me, there are no truly short serves at the U2200 level so I would focus on just looping serves especially the half long ones which don't allow you to mostly use their pace. But I do remember that some players do tty to keep...

I have to be around a computer and watch table tennis on it to do links as it isn't as easy to do links on a cellphone. And I just haven't watched or written about table tennis as much with family and stuff. Maybe there were some points against the blocker I could do this with? That said ...