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Over at mytt, people are pointing out that the ITTF system is not rating players or assigning them strength. In fact the old ranking system had a rating component and a bonus points component to get to its ranking. The new system is ranking tour performance. There is no rating component to...

Accurate at doing what? ELO systems are used in many countries, especiallyin chess where they were originally developed. Ratings Central had a more accurate ELO system than the current USATT system. But can you believe that for many reasons, Some political, but some also based in the fact that...

Try again - flawed by what measure? You have to decide what the criteria is for assessing the system before you call it flawed. Did Fan Zhendong have a better 2017 on the ITTF tour than Dima? Maybe yes. But maybe not. No one won more tournaments than Dima did last year. Is Fan Zhendong a...

Lots of players must have been happy with Timo Boll and Zhang Jike keeping high rankings through lengthy periods of inactivity. While they would do the best they could to play many events and come out with only a decent rating at best to show for it. That said, you cannot sell a tour if the...

NOTE: My goal is not to be an engineer (been there, done that). My goal is to help people improve their table tennis. Again, "aerodynamics" is a loaded term. That said, my main point is that *trying* to keep the blade angle steady when looping can mean a lot of things - the blade angle is...

You want to create yours? You could always use Ratings Central for the calculation and just store your match results.

I said a long time ago that anyone can maintain an ELO system on their home computer, and that the goal for ranking system should be to support the activities of the federation running it.

Here is a supposed example of what someone who is preaching keeping a stable angle would call a stable angle forehand topspin. Listen to the instructions provided and see if the angle is stable. What they really mean is do not d-ump or lift up the elbow habitually to a height higher than the...

Watch the pros loop, do you see them keep the blade angle steady for any incoming ball? They swing according to a rotational or helicopter principle. They hit the ball with a turning stroke. How does the blade angle stay constant with a turning stroke that salutes at the forehead etc. It...

What is a looping stroke that doesn't attempt to cover the ball? Can't make sense of your question. You can create the rotation with the body as well. This part of the reason why most high level table tennis players lean forward, it is people like me with bad knees who excessively rely on...

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It's about swing forward and making your contact come forward and over the ball. So you need to pull past the ball so to speak but not just stroke upwards behind it but forward and over it.

Beating kids is more about knowing what they don't train against and giving it to them. Of course, when they train against it you are toast. But I would say just learn to push heavy, consistently block them wide with transition from forehand to backhand and play with slow heavy topspin so they...

If it works or works, doesn't matter what it is called. Without video could be any combination of both but likely some spin avoidance.

I am a 2000 player and I play 2000 level opponents sometimes higher. Look at the number of times in my matches I hit a winner and the ball comes back (winner yeah right) and I am left out of position scrambling. So don't think it is all about age sometimes you just need to learn to play at...

As my former coach would put It, "stop looping as if you are playing Timo Boll".

The hook is not *deliberate*, it's more a way of getting more racket on the ball without missing that works for me. The more racket area you can expose to the ball, the more confidently you can swing and minimize the risk of whiffing. Maybe if I started younger and had different technique, my...

Not at all - take the ball on the rise or on the fall - ideally don't take it at the top of the bounce. The heavier the spin, the earlier you can and should take it with a shorter stroke - sounds paradoxical but it works.

Take the ball earlier and earlier. You are always waiting for it to drop - you may surprise yourself if you take the ball earlier and cover it more aggressively. Just make sure you swing and always turn/brush the ball (don't hit it flat). It's good stuff by the way.

I sometimes see if my opponent checked the ball out to inspect the serve spin after the let. If he did, I tend to do the same serve but with no spin if the let serve was spinny or with spin if the let serve wasn't. But like others have said, don't change a winning formula, if the serve is...