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If I am friends with their coach or they are someone I coach, I will say something. If I don't know them, then I won't say anything. If they ask me, I probably will offer some advice if I can. Some people just go to the club to have fun and clear their mind. Maybe they don't want to be...

Table tennis is just too difficult. That is the bottom line. Even if you put in the effort to try to get good, finding practice partners or people you can have fun playing with is also too difficult.

Xiang Peng is Hugo's kryptonite. He does so many things naturally that drive Hugo crazy. Sometimes table tennis works out that way.

What if I turn my back to the player serving? I obviously cannot see contact and thus the serve should be called a fault. This is ridiculous but that is the way the rules are written. The rules need to be changed along the lines of "contact visible from both net posts" and not based on where...

I have been told by some pros not to boost 8-80. I was told this after my rubber disintegrated after I tried to boost it.

I would bet they are losing a ton of viewers by not streaming on YouTube. My guess is long term they think they will make money with their new streaming service. Time will tell if they are correct.

I miss serves during drills because I am practicing improving my serve. I think that is what the kid is doing. If you are asking to practice receiving a certain serve, then your partner should just serve to you and miss very rarely. If your opponent is practicing serve and attack, it is...

Variation is the key. Most players are horrible moving to their left (if they are right handed), so if you can place the ball slightly to the left of their normal backahand location, you may get an easier ball the next shot. Another option is play slightly to the middle. You can also vary...

When close to the table you want to be a bit lower, when away from the table players tend to stand up a bit more. One way to tell how low you should be is to stand at the side of the table and touch the left net post with your playing hand, then move over to the right net post and touch it with...

At my club I knew quite a few. Some of the province team members who actually got a salary would ridicule the other coaches who paid to be on the team. Another player who was quite good was told by his potential coach on the CNT B-team he had to pay money to join and couldn't afford it so he...

If you are in the NY/NJ and are already taking lessons with Li Jian, then stick with him. He might use LP when he plays but of course he understands how to play and use SP. If you want your kid to improve faster, then play more hours everyday until they are playing 8 hours a day, 6 days a...

I know people in other sports who have been banned for using ADHD medication. If you aren't a professional, then I doubt anyone cares. If you start beating Hugo C. on a regular basis, then you need to get a therapeutic use exemption from a doctor and your local sports governing body.

Personally I would rather play someone who boosted their racket by a team of CNT scientists over playing someone using illegal serves. Boosting just doesn't make that much of a difference whereas serving illegally can make a huge difference.

People shouldn't rag on Dan. It is my understanding he had a very bad injury when he was playing more seriously and is just trying to do what he can with what he has to work with. Even with that being said, he is way better than 2200 in my opinion. People also need to remember he is trying to...

For anyone who thinks speed glue is safe, you are completely insane. Look up trichloroethylene, toluene, xylene or the other substances used in speed glue. Inhaling that on a daily basis is extremely harmful. Look at the ITTF timeline when they first were going to ban speed glue. Then...

I do not know if you are in the red or black (you are the guy in black), but after watching the 1st point if I were coaching either of you I would scream at you for not looping long pushes. Is your ultimate goal to be 1125 or 2000+? If you think you are limited to 1125 then push away for all...

Personally boosting doesn't make much difference and I don't care about. It definitely isn't like the dramatic difference speed glue made.

Do you know who Big John McCarthy is? The next time he serves a wet ball, you scream "I'm ready! Are you ready? Let's get it on!" then you jump on the table, over the net, stay low, jump into him, take him to the ground, work until you take his back, apply a rear naked choke, choke him out...

I don't think he died alone. He definitely had a lot of friends in New York. He also wasn't forgotten. Walk into any SPIN and you can see videos about him. His picture is also everywhere.

I knew Marty and actually hit with him a few times. He was a character. I think the movie will be entertaining but do not expect it to revolutionize table tennis in the USA.