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Well I also feel inclined to make sure that most web coaching on TTD is done in a manner that encourages people who put out their videos in good faith to get comments from people who have at least demonstrated some willingness to discuss their game a significant amount so people understand their...

Dima is out. Oh well... so has Groth gotten better or has Dima gotten worse? Or some mix of both?

Dima doesn't seem to agree. At least Groth completely disagrees as he is up 3-0 at the moment.

What does slower really mean? And why do you think you need a fast blade?

Solja pulls it out. It would make zero sense to have Han Ying as a teammate and lose that match. Zero.

He has posted some of his whole matches a while back. I think he played Xu Hui in one of them. But he can post them again. I think he is somewhere around 2250 based on my estimate. My estimate may be off of course.

At that time ZJK wasn't interesting. So I think the original statement is correct.

Was down 0-3, got it back to 3-3 and still lost. Polcanova loses to Han Ying. Solja down vs Li Qian. Pathetic.

I watched a documentary on Tamara Boros recently. It is pretty sad that nowadays, European women's TT is all dominated by players who originally trained in Asia. Lots of work still on the horizon. I mean a lady over 50 is beating the top players in Europe.

Wang Yang is a pretty tough chopper. Apolonia lost to a good player.

To me, he isn't putting that much weight - the first loop in this sequence is what I would call putting on weight, https://youtu.be/lbDZH53LbsM?t=461 and you are close enough to me at least to what he is doing on the shots I referenced. He is just a world class athlete who can get lower and...

Lula covered almost everything, the last thing is to be sure that the serve is really short, sometimes it is better to let it come off the side and loop it or tap it, sometimes round the net, sometimes below net height, sometime across to the other sideline of the opponent for a winner. But...

Your last question, for backspin and way off the table, yes. You may not have a lot of weight but folding over the foot tends to put weight on it. So the thing about the drill with is that I can't always tell in the beginning whether you are getting lag and the arm is snapping as a result or...

Gauzy... but seriously, Gacina needs to get his rating up.

Both feet can leave the ground if both feet can spin back and forth, though being planted is likely the way to go. IT's just that your upper body is very often spinning without being really spun by your lower body, either on the backswing or forward swing or both. I played this way for obvious...

Exactly. I guess it takes getting to a certain level of comfort with equipment to understand what you are saying reflexively. I would say drive to a TT club, and use the blades there and offer to buy the blade of someone that you liked. That is even better than buying something off the...

The problem as I diagnose it, which may not make sense to you entirely, is that you play a lot of upper body table tennis. The good news is that you are often not taxing your upper arm, though you sometimes do. The bad news is that you are losing a lot of power from the lower body because you...

So a couple of comments. I hope you do realize that it is 99.9% certain that those were really long serves (or if not long, not really tight) but you aren't playing the quality of opponent to devastate them (to his credit, he did attack them). The bounce is too far from the net on the...

So, again, to close out my side of things, let me explain once more in excruciating detail why *focusing* on the first bounce on your side is misplaced in the terms of giving special advice about *serving short*. A *Short serve* is not determined by where the first bounce on your side lands...

Well, coaches can disagree on many things and it can be interesting to introduce concepts in a variety of ways. The problem.with focusing on the bounce on your side is that it really depends on the player. I used to be able to serve fast short backspin and short topspin with bounce close to my...