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Basically you are saying all beginners or low level players. But everyone has to go through these stages.

She did.

Well, I'm not sure about others but table tennis can also earn you some respect and adoration if you have reached certain level, especially you go visit a new club. When I travel either on business or leisure, I usually try to squeeze some time to visit some local clubs. After playing some...

Yeah, the best sound is a fast and violent forehand loop against a topspin ball from a boosted Hurricane III. It's strangely satisfying.

Well, I don't disagree with you at all. I am not saying yours is bad and mine good. At least, we all reach the sport of TT through different routs.

You play TT for the love of big Mac and Whopper. I give up big Mac and Whopper for the love of playing good TT and lifting weight.

Now I can see why a piece of wood (blade) is so expensive as at least half of the processes are hand-made.

Very good point. You have to apply force from fingers along with the wrist to generate explosive power.

Also XX's rpb is unique as he has huge hands that he holds paddle certain way so he can fit or take advantage of his big hands, unless you also have abnormally big hands.

Simply put, if 95%, which is a super majority, of players serve illegally, the problem is not on the players or umpires but the rule itself. In a society, a law/rule/regulation has to be reasonable enough to fit at least the majority if not super majority. When the majority or even the super...

Exact point I am holding. The rule is hard to enforce. I don't blame players taking advantage of this loophole in the service rule. For similar reason I don't blame refs even as inconsistent as they are.

Though disappointing but not surprised as rumors about these three players would skip the WTT final were spread in Chinese social media a while ago. This just confirmed that not all rumors are pure speculation.

Maybe FZD? For whatever reason, he is not so eager to get back the action after Olympic.

Kids are always kids, regardless where they are. It's the parents who have the most influence and power to decide kid's career choice. Most American parents will encourage their kids to pursue their dreams, be it sports or others. So India parents don't think sports are good career choice for...

Is it a culture thing that most Indians don't want to take sports as their careers? That may explain in world sports India's presence doesn't match the magnitude of the country. Good thing in a few sports India actually has made some solid progress in recent years and table tennis is one of them.

Oh, man, what have you done? You just killed a boy's dream of becoming a table tennis pro. :cool:

If the ref were sitting behind the receiver, he would fault the serve. But the fact is the refs, both of them, sitting on the side where one of them could see the ball at contact with no problem. Maybe, ITTF should ban hook serve as a good hook serve technically needs the ball to drop to very...

Unless you are ultra talented and ultra motivated, it's a little too late to go pro route.

Forehand dominant doesn't automatic mean a weak backhand. A monster backhand loop is not the necessity of a good backhand. It's only for a great backhand or backhand dominant players.

Absolutely, FZD was a prodigy. He was more of a prodigy than LSD at earlier age. At age 16, he already was treated as top of pipeline backing up to the core member of ML, ZJK and XX bypassing more seasoned players like Fang Bo, Yan An, Zhou Yu etc. FZD's rise plus the growth of LGY and LJK...