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  1. How to deal with no spin long balls?

    Yeah that's easy dude, sure...
  2. How to deal with no spin long balls?

    Not that easy when you're used to received spinny balls, a long flat ball won't have the same curve after the rebound as a spinny one, power drive isn't enough, you have to think about moving forward all your body. It's like flat serves "yeah easy power drive and done" but no, when they are low...
  3. How to deal with no spin long balls?

    He learned the faux spin trick in Europe sir... Alexis is a notorious faux spin guy, if you listen to him (and you understand french) he always talk about how he tricked his opponent with faux topspin, faux serves, and Molin reply by saying "yeah that's good here and there to disrupt him!". You...
  4. What’s Better: Playing Hard or Playing Smart?

    Yeah sure, tell that to Timo when Waldner was casually walking while blocking him...
  5. FZD’s lower core strength

    Tencent studios ready to hire Zhendong for the next Matrix movie :ROFLMAO:
  6. New Format - Team Preview of ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025,

    Be realistic a minute: what has Pavade done this season ? nothing, she was ousted by a way younger and inexperienced girls at the french nationals, NGZ. In XD she's played with Simon this season, but problem is Simon is N3 in the mens team, and Pavade is N2 in the womens team, the rules are...
  7. ITTF World Youth Championships 2025, Cluj Napoca, 11/23-30

    The IOC tells the ITTF to understand that for the Olympics only, IOC is the boss here, it will never happen in ITTF competitions if no UK Association is created, that's how it works. IOC is one thing, ITTF is another.
  8. ITTF World Youth Championships 2025, Cluj Napoca, 11/23-30

    There are even Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man Associations :eek: :ROFLMAO: Brittany : " we want our ITTF Association !!" Corsica : "We too !!" Flanders "we too !" - "yeah but french ones or belgians ones ?" - "both !!" Walloons "We too !!" German speaking people in Eupen-Malmedy belgian...
  9. ITTF World Youth Championships 2025, Cluj Napoca, 11/23-30

    SCOOOTLAAAAND !! FREEEEEDOOOOOOM !!! Sorry, it was way to tempting... go say that to Wales womens team "now you play for UK, but Anna Hursey only, we need a english women too" It happens in rugby though, the Lions tours, but they have to name that either the 3 Lions when Ireland does not want...
  10. New Format - Team Preview of ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025,

    Impossible with Pavade's current level, nor Camille Lutz. They'll put Prithika and Jianan on the singles, so Camille Lutz will play the mixed double with Simon, they've never played together. Already 0-3 there. Best case scenario - France starts with 0-3 in the opening XD vs tier 1 to 3 nations...
  11. New Format - Team Preview of ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025,

    France can't be a tier 3/A here, let's be honest: the womens side is way too weak, the Olympics then the last ETTTC have proven their ceiling. Mixed double pairs with either Jianan or Alexis are not reliable, there are only 2 that could do the trick: Gauzy/Pavade or Felix/Pavade, but they don't...
  12. Best all wood blade?

    1st Donic Waldner Offensive, straight handle, best feeling ever without fabric/fiberglass/carbon/senso handle. 2nd Butterfly Maze Advanced. And 3rd in my top 3 is Stiga Clipper.
  13. What’s Better: Playing Hard or Playing Smart?

    Ask Waldner: first ever to achieve a Grand Slam without having to play hard, the master of block, spins in all dimensions, serve, and ball placements. Koki Niwa was that style of player too. Never played that hard, but always smart.
  14. Opinion on Golden Viscaria

    Exacty what Bill Burr said about guys in music instruments shops so: table tennis shops are full of divorced guys or lost in marriage that compensate with overpriced blades/rubbers/shoes "is that the real Golden Viscaria ? is that the one Lin Shidong played with ?" I once played with a blues...
  15. Opinion on Golden Viscaria

    I'm a pro musician, do I need a 4 grands $ or £ or € Custom Shop Fender guitar/bass ? NO I'm paid 112.80 € as a salary when I'm declared as an intermittent labor in the music industry, i.e. when I play a jazz gig in a restaurant for example with the guys I play with, and most of the times only...
  16. Is it unfair to say “yes”/“cho” when the opponent makes an error?

    When it happens on a match point, it's all good to cho ! It happened to me many times, the one that I remember: my opponent was my 11th grade teacher in litterature when I was in high school. He was a dick, even his son I played with regularly at college/uni told me he could be rude sometimes...
  17. blade is too head-heavy for me - any tipps?

    Clippers have ALWAYS been notorious head heavy blades, 1 cm more than any BTY blade's size in both lenght and width: 158/151 vs 157/150, we elders know that since the early 90's at least. But once you get the strokes right, a head heavier blade just adds that extra speed and power. Top-heavy...
  18. Should Professional TT Players (Juniors and Seniors, Men and Women) Be Targets of Fan Abuse on Forums?

    Calling names that way is disrespectfull. I thought respect had to be the 1st quality required to be a moderator... By the way, you told us you didn't want to do the "job" anymore, don't you?
  19. WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025 Nov 17-22

    No, we're still in 2025 landing to 2026 with the WTTTC. Who's in the WTT Finals ? Gauzy. None of them have overtaken him yet, and he's proven to be a strong athlete mentally. Everyone was putting Oh Junsung on a pedestal, but now he has to break that ceiling, and it's hard for him. Feng Yi-Sin...
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