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Joy 1000, Stress 0 Thanks zeio. Awesome translation as always.

Yes, plus one on the pips. There are tons of people doing wonderful videos of shakehands technique in English alone. But to find pips technique videos is almost impossible. And if you think about table tennis as a world market on YouTube, there are so many pips players out there.

A friend of mine went to TTPor to train for two months last summer. He just posted an excellent highlights video to YT, so I thought I'd share it here.

USA TT is like being selected for the Jamaican Bobsled team. Sometimes it's fairer to compete and other times it isn't. What if Kanak had a short-term injury during qualification and missed the team? Is that fair based on his work or performance over the four years since Rio? A mix of...

If he can do fh loop in training then equipment has nothing to do with it. Flat hitting in matches is just a stress response. Even if in another year he is still reverting to flat hitting under pressure, I'd be more inclined to change his coach than switch to SP.

The invitation for the 2019 B75 camp just came out. B75 is a very unusual TT camp in Denmark. It's big, 24 coaches and 110+ players. And compared to other camps the training is very player-directed, and designed around everyone learning from each other, which makes the training more fun...

Timo has six blades because X number of people wiæl see that and think "I only have two TB ALCs. I'm going to buy four more right now." Cha-ching!

This may come as a shocker, but most professional athletes are quite attractive. Youth and good health are two huge general factors in attraction, regardless of individual tastes. Since almost all the pro TT players are very young and fit, when they make an effort and dress/prep to go out they...

+1 for fastarc g-1

This forum is outstanding for threads about pro tournaments and national champs. Lots of good video links, and analysis, and zeio's translations. It's worth ignoring the 100 weekly ej threads to get to those.

I agree. The body image is completely effed up, partly by photoshop and partly by bodybuilders who you only see in their unsustainably competition phase. But there is an idea that any visible fat is too fat. And that is biologically wrong and very dangerous. They call it exercise anorexia...

Football players have a lot of muscle, which means they can have many pounds of fat and it's still quite a low percentage. But not 2%. Ten seconds of googling turned up data both across sports and from the NFL scouting combine, where players leaving college are examined and tested, for those...

Also been listening to Frank Black Pray for the Girls from the PP record. Last night I had the strangest dream. https://youtu.be/zrQRbzoAd7U

Heard the Flirts Jukebox on first wave tje other day. They dig up some forgotten early 80s trash pop gems. https://youtu.be/sRmO5XBBzyA

So according to this China ratio, I'm about ten pounds underweight. Domino's is bringing me three large pizzas with all the toppings, and I should be rated 2500 by this time tomorrow.

Both videos are taken down. Is there anywhere to see these matches online now?

All this thread shows is how society's body standards have changed over time. No professional TT players are chubby at all. They are all normal weight or lower. Our society currently has an image of what is fit and healthy that is inaccurate. We all have exercise anorexia, if you want to...

Most basic difference is with SP the most effective shot is a hit, with inverted it is a loop. Watch some youtube videos of Mima Ito to see SP used very well on BH, or Mattias Falck (nee Karlsson) to see it on FH.

Took too much energy to yell. Plus Swedes are not that big on displaying a lot of emotion, afaik. The comparison with tennis is stupid. In tennis players grunt or scream or shriek, DURING the points. That is borderline cheating. In TT a player who does this is Dima, although for some...

I thought LSW was IF ZLF with a diff handle. But I'm ni blade expert. Someone should check that stevrinou blade construction database.