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My team will be playing tomorrow, in our group is Texas Wesleyan and UCSD. We probably won't be on the table with a live stream, but here is it for tomorrow. http://www.nctta.org/champs/2018/video.html Here are the rosters: http://www.nctta.org/champs/2018/results/r_w.htmL Here's the groups...

Your question depends on what level you consider amateur is. If you don't plan to play in tournaments, do whatever you want. If you plan to play in tournaments, definitely learn RPB, since TPB has limitations that can be abused by other players. Backhand is becoming and more important as the...

You got me good :P I hate it when others go down-the-line But, as I have observed from righty-righty gameplay, pivoting and using the forehand down-the-line to the opponent's forehand seems to happen quite a lot to win points. Do you righties find this surprising? I want to learn beforehand in...

As curious question, how much do down-the-line attacks bother you in general? From a lefty? or from a righty?

you completely missed his point. he stated that when a lefty plays a righty, there are more passive service returns. Xu Xin is a lefty, so it is not as great for him to try to backhand flip righty serves, whereas Wang Hao is a righty who will have an easier time to use his backhand flip on...

You should have seen him when he was on our table tennis discord server; he only lasted a little over 12 hours before he got banned. He kept ending his messages with: a A. O hmm all in a row, for the sake of "getting our attention"

As for forehand flipping, I had no issue today. I followed the advice of a older penholder named Santos, and it pretty much worked. Although there's no way I'd dare to flip like this in a real game, which may be a problem. I guess I'll have to start doing it in practice matches to gain the...

I guess the my thread has two goals: 1. I honestly want to hear what other people think. Everybody has their own viewpoints that I am interested in. I don't want to think that my thinking is infallible just because I am more skilled, so I want to hear out everybody's thoughts in case there is...

1) I was talking about short serves, but I guess your logic still holds true. It is much easier to start lower. I think I'll stick to this, thanks!

Another question: is there a trick to getting used to swinging earlier? I guess my question stems from the ball hitting the edge of my racket a lot. With slower balls, I don't have a problem. But if the ball has more topspin than I thought, or if it's higher than I thought, it hits the edge of...

As some of you know, I qualified for NCTTA nationals a month ago, and the NCTTA National Championships start on Friday. Since there isn't much time left, I don't think I can make drastic changes and improvements, but I hope that the community here can give me some advice that can tweak and...

It shouldn't feel or look unnatural. Your hip shouldn't be going downwards. Your first three smaller swings looked better than the more powerful swings that you tried. Try taking a video of hitting the ball when you get to a club

Do it with a ball in front of a table. What do you mean by position for the shift? You already know that your right leg doesn't have to be so far back

Try playing a game with that kind of hip rotation. You will soon find that it is not useful. You are overemphasizing this; the hip rotation is not as big as you think. You just need to make sure that the rotation exists. That is all. You can try looking at other videos...

Most experienced players already do the things I mentioned without thinking about it. Since I spend a lot of time serving and experimenting with my serves, I've become aware of it. Of course, you can do it with just your wrist. Isolating parts of the serve is great for analysis and testing; I...

Behave yourself You know you got yourself banned from the discord because of spamming. Do you think that spamming is a good thing? It takes up space that could be meant for other threads on other topics. It's a basic courtesy and sometimes, it's a rule on the internet. Many people are...

Is the pain in your fingers, your palm, or your wrist? I used to feel burning in my palm when I used to do multiball; maybe it's because my hands are weak. I do let go of my racket a lot to relieve my hand. And I do stretch my hand against the table after I've been playing for a few hours...

Just play to improve, since there's almost nothing that you can do to win at the moment.

You have to hit the ball downward on to the table consistently first. The goal is the aim your the bounce on your side of the table into the same spot consistently. If you can do that, it should go over the net with no problem. Carry the ball down with your racket. Your racket is supposed to go...

raise your backswing, so that you end up going forward, and less upward. A video of yourself would help though