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Even 5 years ago, Zhang Chao while winning every match he played, only went 5 games against one player, a left-handed female Chinese penholder. The funny thing is that before the NA Teams, if you look at the USATT ratings of Fang Yichi and He Aige, they are only 2 points apart. After he went...

Of course you know where I am going with this - you started introducing delusion and I am point out that you should stop trying to accuse people who disagree with you of being delusional and deal with the facts. I am not sure how you are measuring this. Men and women don't compete with each...

Women compete extremely well with men in everything in life. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded - after all, the fastest woman in the world would put you to shame. It is really about the levels of competition and women don't compete at every level the same way men do in table tennis and...

It is tough being an adult learner. Just saw a Tom Lodziak video where he talks about Rade Markovic commenting on Tom's game. If you learned mostly after your 20s and have bad knees, you will know what Tom is going through. And many people who do not put themselves on video are making...

I am probably going to borrow my club mates Viscaria tomorrow and test it for this question. That said I am curious about popular opinion. Which is better, T05, T05H or D05? I was leaning towards T05H but no one has seconded it.

Find a blade you like and get a blade maker to fix the handle (or sand it down yourself).

I think he just wants to give the impression that he didn't just pick the team with his eyes closed. We all know the team already. The top 3 guys have a year to fix it and so do the women.

Not sure why - Jang Woojin, Lee Sangsu and Jeoung Youngsik can be above Dima.and Ovtcharov and you never know how healthy Boll will be. I agree it is more likely Germany will be on top, but Korea is dangerous any time.

Don't underestimate Korea.

1. Play against opponents in matches on youtube using your footwork and a good laptop/screen that you can move around in front of. 2. Develop good short stroke technique, play your backhand with the hips and back and the forehand with left leg twist for shoulder and hip rotation - play neither...

MY best shot at the 2019 NA Teams tournament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5tPtHQncg&t=1015

Yes in a sense it all depends on what you are comparing to what and what you use to justify it. There are possibly women who can beat some men in the top 100 in table tennis. This is virtually impossible in tennis. There is a chess dimension to TT.

We can agree to disagree. When you say the women are never overpowered you probably have a very narrow definition of overpowered. You can be overpowered and still win a match. In any case my experience is different from yours. Yijun Feng is not a particularly powerful player and his ranking...

Yes but Kihara and Nagasaki were 14 and 16 and Kihara lost a close match to Qian Tianyi. It will be interesting to see what happens next year but the Japanese are stacked as Nagasaki is still eligible next year. You may be right about the Chinese girls but something about Kihara tells me it is...

I like the video but would not call it the finest video on the internet on the backhand topspin (it might be but that just shows the limitations of the internet). It teaches one technique amongst many and doesn't really work for the fast close to the table backhand topspin that dominates some...

Iamsan, not to be rude but it is pretty much a non-starter to ask serious questions about technique without posting video. If the best player in your club who I assume is at a decent level (2100+ or has coached at that level) is teaching you something then listen to him. Nothing in TT is...

Yes. That combined with the WJTTC results are a loud warning to the Chinese women. And we still haven't seen what Miwa Harimoto can do yet. Generations matter and it isn't clear they have a 15 year old on the level of Kihara (depending on how you evaluate Kuai Man), though the pips come with...

It's the Olympics!

They need to present the trophies and let's get on to what will likely be a disappointing main course. Father Time may have finally intervened in the ML-FZD battle.

This is not my experience at all. Hazin is not a player on the level.of Liu when you compare men and women. Hazin is not top 100 as a man and Liu is likely top 50 or better as a woman. The rating levels matter. But other than maybe when chopping with pips (in which case there is weaker...