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The Indian team is still eating Dinner as we speak.

Those guys are still the highest ranked and they win the internal trials.

Big grip change is really slow grip change combined with poor anticipation. The grip changes the top players make. Ow are fairly large. Look at Dima as another example. It really comes down to how fast they read the game and anticipate what grip they want to use for the shot they play. After...

I think if you play table tennis you will see that timing a backhand away from the table is hard unless the ball is a clean rally ball. Playing a chopper is hard to do consistently with the backhand as adjusting to last second changes in the ball trajectory is hard. Tes we can argue thar...

Thia ia pretty much complete.

I think people are underestimating what taking the ball in front of you means for limiting hip usage and torso rotation. Also adjusting strike zones on the backhand is much harder than doing so on the forehand. When baseball hitters start hitting with a backhand motion, then we can have a...

Hahahaha... Niwa needs that....

The short game and confident blocking game is still very important and that is where I usually give up, because the faster blades make it harder to feel the ball when you are looped at under pressure. Ultimately, it comes down to your confidence in the blade and how it plays across a range of...

I 100% agree. I am looking for the right balance between risk and reward. The good thing is that the website, ttgearlab.com, does some interesting testing that I am using to think through my blade choices. I am also learning what I like in the inner plies which I never took seriously (ayous...

The biggest lesson I have learned from testing all these blades is that I like flat handles. When a handle is too fat, it places too much stress on my arthritis and my fingers. In fact, everytime I have shaved a handle to make it flatter like a Korbel, or if it already has that flatness, I...

Congrats to Ishiy. Also congrats to Alto, who beat Monteiro, Madrid and Jha, all victories that were hard earned against players who are generally strong players in ITTF tour events.

This isn't an Olympics qualifier.

Lily wins gold in all 4 events - WT, XD, WD, and WS! Excellent!

Portugal beat them and took their place on the podium. The Yu Fu - Han Ying matchup doesn't favor Germany so I suspect they took a sub with Mittelham to rest Han and expected Solja to win her matchup with Shao Jieni. You know the rest as Petrissa had an epic choke to lose the match from 2-0 up.

I agree with you though you have to remember the quality of the shots they are facing vs the quality we face.

I thought you were making a good joke, until my friend told me his mother thought he was watching porn!

I think Dima is using this blade. Going through the whole story about losing to Samsonov and looking for something with more feeling to lie in a review is a bit too much.

https://butterflyonline.com/Templates/BladeSpecifications.pdf If you look at that chart, the Balsa Carbo X5 has less speed and less feeling than a Primorac. That blade appeals more to people who like to use their own power (extreme control) and don't care about feeling the ball per se because...

She has a good lefty partner and she does attack serves - her footwork and forehand are still issues. Sunday will be interesting.

All American mixed doubles final on Sunday as Lily and Kai and Amy and Nikhil both remain undefeated.