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Have an idea of the level and playing style of whoever is giving you advice - it helps to place the advice in context.

The trampoline example is just as general as my statement and probably even more uninsightful to a practically minded table tennis player. There are limits to the ability of human beings to generate and control their ranges of impulses as well as to read incoming spins and impulses. Even high...

Gnanasekaran has overtaken Fegerl and Matsudaira as the best counterer/blocker in the world. Amazing control and consistency and he has good offensive strokes too.

Hmmm - so your TTD profile is all confused?

Someone would have thought he lost from way you described him, Mizutani is a trick and touch player so he is always calm when his tricks are not working consistently against a lower rated power player though he expects to win regardless.

V42 for OVA? How does that happen?

Soft rubbers are not spin oriented and hard rubbers are not speed oriented. The reality is more complicated. Carl gave a good summary but the best article is on thoughtsontabletennis where he explains the kinds of things that can affect looping arc. At lower impact speeds, all other things...

The summary has some issues or Timo Boll would not use Tenergy 05 and his technique is great and his loops are extremely difficult to counter. Same with Dima and many other top pros.

They removed separation by association in the new tournament seeding system for tour events.

Ask EmRatThich.

Then why bring it up? Just to troll and derail the thread?

That was my first thought but knowing him, I realized he was just being him. Even the top kids who try to get into the NBA sometimes hardly go to school to be in school.

Er... is the sport school thing a table tennis thing or a Chinese sports investment thing?

A American player once said to separate the men and the women's tour and have the men play round the world more often because he felt the product was really special. Take that to ITTF since you are so eager for change.

It is a 3 way tie so head to head no longer matters. The Individual ratios are Steger 6-5, Xu 7-6 and Pitchford 5-7. So Steger 1, Xu 2 and Pitchford 3. These things are commonly debated and confused with people trying to bring back the head to head after it is already out of the picture in a...

Fewer games lost means a higher ratio (6/5 is higher than 7/6). This is the documented method.

He couldn't beat Bastian Steger. Steger is tough, man.

His grip.

There is probably an opportunity to create a club around the public facilities. In fact the public facilities are a great thing. The problem in the US is not the existence of amateurs, it is finding good places to play because the rent is too expensive to support good clubs in the cities given...

The group mentality is also human nature. We had to create rules in most TT clubs in the US to prevent this kind of stuff. Sometimes, there is a club appointed supervisor or kind helper who if he is correctly motivated helps with players who need to find matches - I for example will just play...