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A lot of robot training equals death vs long pips. The skill with lp is really watching the ball to see how much reversal or no-spin or whatever junk they applied to the ball. Robots train you out of looking closely at the ball, which is why they are a net negative except in strictly limited use.

Work on positioning your body further from the ball by a few cm. All else equal that will move your contact point nearer to the sweet spot. Rozena is good. I just went back to it after two sheets of T05fx. I play slightly worse with tenergy at twice the price.

Is d09c too much for a beginner-intermediate player? Yes.

This forehand is very very nice.

I have several scars from looping myself in the forehead. Mainly when training vs chop, after the first thousand loops I got sloppy form. Two Three pieces of advice I can offer. 1. Rotate your torso and shoulders as you swing. Head-looping is caused by the arm swinging as the body stays...

That makes total sense, and is one of the concepts NL harped on for years - having the broadest possible range of contacts for all your strokes so you can adapt to most balls.

Maybe this is what I am missing - what is the problem with an open coming back as a block? A pattern where you are the looper and opponent is only a blocker is kind of the dream. You can loop pretty much infinitely until your unwilling blocker misses. We have different definitions of attack...

I play at a club where we get to coach the newer players before and after the match play. This sort of hard (aka thick) contact is exactly what I am asking my five learners NOT to do. imo you will never consistently play spinny shots on the table with that much force. It looks good in...

I am rubbish with TJ advice so take fwiw. Both strokes look a bit effortful to me. As if you want to force the ball to spin instead of spinning it with feeling. It works, and both are very serviceable strokes. There may be a limit on how much spin you can generate by force, that would...

Thanks for watching, and great comments LDM7. I put some thoughts in-line above.

Thanks!

alrighty then ... @Littledragonman7 why did I win or lose?

okay my internet connection is so bad I need to post each game separately. will do that after I finish watching VTV play their Nederlands Dames match

some ideas: anything that is fully random over the whole table. you can also block all table instead of attack. people rarely do this, but it's often easier to get someone to loop at you than to block for you. the footwork is identical so for your purposes it doesn't matter if you loop or...

I didn't watch the new vids. My thought is to work at reducing the upper arm involvement and freeing the elbow and wrist so they move at all. Just let them move freely for now. Once that loose swing feels natural and normal, then start to add the wrist and finger shaping that NL writes...

This conversation is great. I don't see the split between thinking about technique and tactics quite the same. Like you have to work with both from the start or you are just holding yourself back for no reason. Wherever your technikque is ATM, there are always better and worse patterns and...

If you always boost every rubber then you might as well boost Rozena too.

Driving two or three hours in America is considered no big deal by many people. In the country distances are long. Near the cities distances are short but the traffic is horrible so you drive 1/3rd the speed at best. Everyone is used to it. Westchester County literally borders NYC. It is a...

14 - 12 to Dima. Chole!

I will post a video week after next then. And I expect everyone on here to tell me why I won or lost the match.