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Are you implying that your brain is not in use when you are feeling the ball and producing the impact? Where do you think those sensations are produced? I cannot imagine why lifting weights or increased strength would hamper feeling in any way. Perhaps if you bang your hand onto the weights...

It's from my experience. Although I have worse touch than most people here, so I might not notice any diminished effects. We must also remember that the pro training their body and the amateur is a whole different ballgame. I'm not so sure how much pro-specific things apply to us in a...

Since when do you lose any flexibility or sensitivity if you train your muscles? Next you're going to say that martial artists should stop doing weights and exercises so they can punch and kick faster. Of course, stretching is required to upkeep flexibility, but it is not mutually exclusive with...

I'm on the same line of thought as Pippington. If you train for mass, you train for mass, but you don't gain mass from low weight, high reps. You gain strength.

Aren't built well? Good one. Train the entire body, but don't train like a bodybuilder.

I must say that it is very easy to have tight serve receive against worse opponents, quite the contrary when playing people who disguise the serve well enough to fool you sometimes. You don't want to always go in for a very tight and low push because it could suddenly net. Just look at what...

Who gives a shit, anyway?

NL, I suggest you place your body before your game. If you can't go more on your knees, then you can't. You've made it work without. I can still imagine myself, what a full body loop would look like.

Butt Lotion Daily. :rolleyes:

I watched SnTM when it was airing. I wouldn't exactly call it accurate. It was fun for what it was, which is Saki with takkyuu and lesbians, and it got some people interested, so there's that. :rolleyes: Some calculations were made as to just how much spin Kururi was producing on the sidespin...

While I think that shouting before someone serves should just give you a yellow card immediately, serving before someone's ready is worse.

I'd like to hear about that.

It was recovering quite well to the point where it felt like it was 98% gone, and then I slightly hurt myself again and probably overused my back, and it came back. I think it would have fully healed in a few weeks had I not pushed it. At least now I learned. It's doing the same pattern as last...

Did some drills today, block vs loop. Was all fine, but near the end a nerve in my upper back felt like it was not agreeing anymore with what I was doing, so I just went home before I get a one way ticket to Snap City. I'll take a week off and check back, so I don't cause any more injuries. If...

TWI, I fail to understand how pedophilia and more feminine clothes for female TT players are related. It's up to the parents and the kids themselves to present themselves in a decent way. Blame nature for making fairly young girls look like women. Even if women in their early 20's are still...

It really is interesting, when a large majority of women express delight and enjoyment in appearing feminine, yet it's normal to assume that a woman's value is somehow degraded if she appears more like, well, a woman. :rolleyes: The whole notion of women being disrespected if they appear more...

Not exactly a movie in format, and not even live action, but Ping Pong the Animation is a must watch. Second only to Balls of Fury. :rolleyes: http://www.crunchyroll.com/ping-pong-the-animation

Sure, when I come back. :rolleyes: For now, I will go and see what my body lets me do at the table. I'll be more careful this time: probably little to no looping. Greg Letts has a pretty good video on adapting the forehand loop for injured and older players, here: I'm doing this kind of...

I can't help you much, but I offer my sympathies. Several weeks ago I injured myself doing a really bad form forehand shot while stretched, and I still occasionally wake up to tingling and slight pain in my body. A bad case of nerve pinch. What I learned: Always warmup, don't be lazy on any...