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  1. Rubber suggestion

    Tenergy 19 both sides!
  2. World Table Tennis Star Contender Doha 2021

    Duda vs Uda?
  3. World Table Tennis Contender Doha 2021

    Pretty sure I watched Hayata - Ito final on YT. It was only highlights iirc. Is no full match video what you mean?
  4. TenniRobo - super table tennis robot in compact size

    Support from Sergey is excellent. He responds quickly and knows everything about the robot since he is the maker. I can't say about long-term reliability since I only had it some months before I sold my house, and because of that my table and the robot also.
  5. Importance of pairing - Findings after months of equipment testing

    You could have saved yourself some money with a viscaria and 2x t05 or d05. And it isn't often I can say that. OTOH, your project sounds like a good way to maintain some excitement for table tennis in 2020. Maybe that was worth more than money.
  6. Blades for short pimples

    Flexible blades with short pimples give very unpredictable results. The combination is both slower and harder to control. So many short pimples players use the stiffest blade they can still loop with, as almost nobody uses pimples on both sides. The blades already listed are the standard ones.
  7. Forehand Loop against UNDERSPIN Technique

    Not sure what all the long post argy-bargy is about. Content seems pretty standard stuff everybody agrees with. To the OP, pls don't say "...only ten minutes." Ten minutes is abt 5 minutes too long. I have many lolcat vids to get to, can't spend all day on your loop vs backspin.
  8. 2021 All Japan National Championships

    Hayata's chequerboard dress ought to be illegal.
  9. 2021 All Japan National Championships

    Can't be much Hayata doesn't already know about Ito's serves. Unless the woman made up some new ones since last month? How many would she have then, 100?
  10. Editorial: It's hard to know if an equipment change actually makes you better

    When I want to ej I go to the other TT forum and buy used gear. I try it for 1 - 10 hours, don't like it, and sell it on to the next ej for $5 - $20 less than I paid for it. If you want to try a $150 blade you don't have to pay for it. Just lease it for a session or two. Same with...
  11. Editorial: It's hard to know if an equipment change actually makes you better

    The best thing is to have a good friend EJ, who knows how you play and what you have tried, what you like or didn't and why. Then when you get a jones to try the new thing, he has already tried it (because of course he has) and can say 'don't bother, you won't like it.' I am lucky to have...
  12. Editorial: It's hard to know if an equipment change actually makes you better

    So a lot of equipment changes do make you better, at something. They also make you worse at something else. All of this is within the constraints of your level. I changed a couple of years ago to short pips backhand. This made my backhand attack way better. Better as in, more consistently...
  13. Various Forehand topspin techniques

    To loop with a straight arm you need really great feet.
  14. Ma Long service video analysis (Footwork pattern)

    It's a good video. Thank you for making and sharing it.
  15. Covid-19 outbreak at US table tennis tournament

    So obviously it is impossible to give evidence about the outcome of things that didn't happen. Try this thought experiment. Imagine the USA was governed by the CCP with the full powers the CCP exercises in China, and our initial disease outbreak had been the same, Covid circulating here...
  16. Covid-19 outbreak at US table tennis tournament

    To ask it another way, wasn't it the resistance to lockdown at the start that caused the eventual lockdowns to be so long, destructive, and yet unsuccessful?
  17. Covid-19 outbreak at US table tennis tournament

    Did anybody serious suggest lockdowns are the best way to control Covid? I thought we had general agreement that lockdowns are either a) what you do in a small area for about 14 days with 100% mandatory compliance, followed by rigorous and thorough test and trace OR b) what you do as a last...
  18. Covid-19 outbreak at US table tennis tournament

    I am very sure Covid 19 has caused some excess teenage suicides. Sometimes the reason will be isolation/lockdown exacerbating existing mental illness. And sometimes the reason is being trapped with abusers who are also also now possibly home 24*7, and there is no work or school to offer an...
  19. Covid-19 outbreak at US table tennis tournament

    Once you have 60k cases per day you are ****ed as a country and all that remains is individual damage limitation. The countries that succeeded best did so by massive initial testing paired with short total, enforced localized lockdowns. Then after breaking the virus they have been doing test...
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