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Lol, surely a ball with side spin just can't change from backspin to topspin or vice versa. Not even our best friend Anders Lind can do this, let alone Adam Bobrow.:D Gauzy's all his balls were topspin balls, only his last one was a combination of side spin & backspin. Something else doesn't...

In the kids U17, remember the name of Lee Seung-Soo. What a great BH that boy has.

No I wrote: Touch point is indeed clearly above table height but beyond the ‘baseline’ and no longer above the playing surface. I did not write anywhere that it is below the playing surface. But he would indeed be better off ‘dropping’ the ball longer. I also think, to give a better example, he...

Touch point is indeed clearly above table height but beyond the ‘baseline’ and no longer above the playing surface, and the ball is also already in decline. As it should be with a looping/top spin. But I think he meant that you have to start low with your arm (knee, calf) and then finish high...

Old school but still THE reference to have a good basic technique. Many a current player had better learn this before they think they are Ma Long. By the way with pushing idem, I sometimes wonder if (new) members of a club still learn this basic stroke or does it all have to be as fast as...

Felix? Alexis you mean.

That has little to do with it. His FH shots have indeed improved in recent months. It's about his reflexes, his reaction times to e.g. go from his BH to his FH, and they are really ‘bad’ at that level. Whenever there was a need to switch, he was late with his movement, from his FH to his BH his...

Harimoto's reaction time was again way off. OMG, for such a player, I think he has the slowest reflexes of all the top players. But I had already written that once surely?

You could also do some research in Belgium, although I don't know if there are any financial margins at the moment, but some clubs do have savings or good sponsors.... One of my former clubs play with their first team in the super division. With, among others, Pär Gerell, Quintin Robinot, Olav...

All leftists in power! ;)

I am a fairly big proponent of Andro blades and rubbers. Had several woods in the past. Why, 1 the (konkav) grip is ideal for me and 2 they have some super light blades. My favourite all time is Temper Tech All+ The bottom picture is a TP_Ligna All that I am playing with now.

Maybe this video by Bryant Craig can help you. At 00:59, you see him play very briefly during a league match in Antwerp (Belgium).

So, with a top spin ball where the point of contact on your racket is at the top (as an example), there is more spin in it than if you made the same stroke (at the same angle) with the lower part of the racket. So with a push ball, just the opposite at the bottom more spin than if you hit the...

Gosh, that used to be interesting turning the wood in your hand when it was still possible to play with 1 colour. Back then, it was terribly difficult to play against a player with one side Anti and another side Feint lined. Listening well was the message then. Now I find mostly that a player...

Yes I see Sabine top 25 even faster for the very simple reason that she could play table tennis before she starts anti now. That makes a big difference to Luca who I don't see getting top 50. Just because you can knock some top players once doesn't mean you are a world player right away. I don't...

Surely you can cut 3-4-5-6-7-8-9mm, etc... according to need?

Use inner tube from a bicycle (smallest ones). Can then be cut to length.

Thank you very much for your explanation. I don't understand it though. Still changing at that age. I think she understands herself that she has reached the maximum of her career or is she hoping to rise a few more places? And why? At a certain point, you have to be satisfied with what you have...

Sorry but we're not going to compare L. Mladenovic to Sabine Winter now, are we? Sabine has long since proved that she can play table tennis both BH and FH and she is going to master that with an anti-rubber soon too. I don't see it with Luka. He is a textbook example as a garage player. In my...

Suddenly my interest in Sabine is gone!😃