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Nigerian play is traditionally extremely heavy spin, heavy forehand oriented. Even the new ball and the European and Chinese revisions to the sport have hardly changed the basic coaching approach to technique.

By the way I am not KM1976's coach.

Interesting post. I usually stay "Stop playing as if you are playing Timo Boll" when someone is trying to end the point on every shot. I am a big believer that at the lower levels , including my level, that those of us who cannot develop amazing footwork should try to get a feel for playing...

Lets just say I know a coach who stereotypes a lot of techniques (and strengths and deficiencies) from a lot of countries.;)

To be fair, what you are saying is more relevant at a level of table tennis that I am not well acquainted with in Europe. The focus of coaches at lower levels is the truly informs a lot of these statements. But at the level of the pros, or at the top 200 level, these differences are far less...

That Nigerians are doing it? :eek: If you compare the forehands in that video to say, Aruna, you see that Aruna, even with his Nigerian idiosyncracies, is more refined. Nigerians tend to use grips that let you get extra effect from pronating the wrist. They rarely use full backands and tend...

It's a comment made by someone who hasn't played a full match with the supposedly better equipment. Freitas, Dima and Boll have said similar things. Only Dima seriously tried it for a short period. Remember what happened? The biggest separator of China is the effort their players are...

Yeah. Usually, I ignored him at mytt. But I know he will inevitably get banned here as well. I guess people do different things for fun and trolling is unfortunately one of them.

The game is more diverse and has the old game as a subset. Sure it is a matter of taste. But not when you go on forums where fans of the new game dominate and start repeatedly mocking or insulting the modem game and its proponents. Like I said, he is free to find fellow company and discuss...

I know Berndtmann across a few forums. He simply believes that table tennis should have remained the way it was before sponge, gluing, fast rubbers and the Japanese revolution transformed it. If you look at the video Carl linked to, the caveman in it is actually based on him. If you think his...

Don't feed the trolls.

Didn't make me laugh - I am not here to have people insult my sport repeatedly. They would be better off finding a hardbat forum which would support their rudeness since they would be amongst friends.

The #1 spot was actually Zhu Yuling. But on that team, it hardly makes a difference, it probably depended more on who asked to play and the fact that they didn't want to risk anything. And no matter how good LSW is playing (after all, didn't she win Marvellous 12 with an undefeated record)...

Yes, but that does not mean she has to play the 3rd match, which is what Atas was commenting on.

Accessibility is not the biggest reason, what the Chinese do is not magic. But if you believe it is, that is okay. It's not the kind of thing you get convinced of by just talking about it, there are many good tacky rubbers to play with if you really want to play with them and boosting rubbers...

In the context of an amateur experimenting, sure. In the context of a pro who is trying to play his very best and enhance his weapons first and foremost and limit his weaknesses, while not losing to people who are playing at a high level and at their best, not so much. Radical reinvention...

They want to leave Gerell off the squad? I thought the squad would obviously be Karlsson, Larsson, Gerell, Kallberg and Moregardh.

Doesn't his relative ranking within the team speak for itself? Ueda or Oshima is not a difference maker and I suspect that Oshima doesn't pair well with Niwa in doubles which is what he really needs to do. Ueda is the more sophisticated singles player.

Samsonov has used Grip S before. The highest level Euro player I know that consistently uses a tacky rubber on the forehand is this guy. He is not as high level as he used to be. Also, I feel that more players dabbled in tacky rubbers during the speed glue era because that was a huge...

Those sports were invented in America so the logic was clear even if currently antiquated.