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Ma Long needs to retire.

Chen Meng loses to He Zhuojia. Not good.

My playing level is still dropping but I like the game too much to stop playing. So screw my playing level. I am reconceiving my forehand stroke for what I hope will be the final time. I have decided to go back to a spinny forehand with off the bounce elements whether as a short or large...

While I am not a lefty and lefties do have advantages, the key is to be able to have a good variety of spinny and deceptive serves with good spin variation. Then be able to place these at various points on the table. Then to practice attacking behind them to get an idea of how to handle a...

No, it definitely doesn't. But it does feel grippier at the beginning and though that feel goes away, it performs largely the same, maybe better. I have a student who I gave sheets in January who is still using them.

Yeah. MX-P and T80FX are not for people who want to compromise. The stuff that helps you compromise is slower than that. But still isn't as cheap or slow as cheap tacky rubber. There is the Hexer/Baracuda/Genius generation of tensors. And even the stuff suds79 chose is not that bad either...

I am trying Vega Pro now in part because of this post and I can understand where you are coming from.

You lose points once you start a match and lose, no matter what the reason you lose. The issue must have been a later match, not the match being played. As for what your buddy did, yes, personalities and cultures are different. I don't think I would have chosen that approach, but I have...

The Ma Long ball is not ABS - it is just "cell free". It was the ball that broke a lot before the ABS ball was introduced.

You were trying to save money and you thought the rest of us using these tensors were idiots. No biggie. There are many like you so welcome to the real world. Your touch and short game may suffer a bit so be ready for that.

Omar Assar is the favorite but I am rooting for my country man Bode who upset Aruna in the R16 match. Go Nigeria!

Yes, but the logic behind the principle is that you can get good technique without such things. I used to short push by taking fingers off the racket and a high level coach told me that it was unnecessary and would complicate my play under pressure unless I could flick with the same grip...

No one really knows what fingers they apply to what strokes when. They have a general idea which they think is true based on what they have tried in the past and if you experiment and something works for you, just keep doing it. The only thing I would generally recommend is to try to...

My body has been a wreck for the past month and I have been stupidly forgetting/refusing/being lazy about wearing knee braces. No more BS - I can't play TT anymore without those things and I need to accept it or I soon will be unable to walk. I have lost a ton of rating points doing all kinds...

Takes a good teacher and a lot of hours of practice. The practice is the really hard part as you have to experiment and understand until the feeling is there.

Very deep post.

Fixed.

You moderators at TTD are so slow to take out the trash...

Kim Jung Hoon. Former Korean national team player.

Try it and experience it yourself. It's honestly the kind of question that is best answered by personal experience. But just about any spinny rubber will suffice.