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@UpSideDownCarl I understand your point. I'm grateful that you're even trying to reason with me and help me. However troublemakers need to be addressed. I could be considered one of those troublemakers, so I guess it's just the circle of life. ;) @Shuki Just because we're on a forum doesn't...

Carl, I know it's all fun and games and that's fine, but coming here to read a quality post from you on the subject that is being discussed, and then essentially being called a ****** and unskilled isn't exactly the TTD experience I'm looking for. :rolleyes:

Somebody's projecting...

@Boogar It looks like you have: your followthrough is slightly different. Whatever it is, I don't see a reason to chicken out on your backhand because it can be good if you allow it to. I know you have the touch to loop on the backhand as well, and surely the racket head speed is there. I...

@Boogar So you've seen a ton of 2500+ players who serve many, or even perhaps mostly backhand serves? We might not be in the same year then, or I just haven't seen enough players. I thought it was true that when you get closer to the elite levels, backhand serves are getting more and more...

I wouldn't consider winning with serves cheap tricks. It's the opponent's fault if they don't know how to return backhand serves, and it's your benefit if you've developed a good backhand serve. What's funny is that backhand serves are common in the lower levels. They start disappearing once...

@Der_Echte Hah, I guess. I'm actually very grateful that I got injured lightly enough to be useful. I managed to work around my pain entirely in my shots today by playing lightly enough and using very strict good and relax form, and when I did some shots with bad form, the feedback was direct...

My arm is a little better today. I've also practiced swinging slowly and safely to see what causes discomfort and what does not. I think the painless swings are mechanically better. I'm not sure I want to play with the arm being slightly injured because it could and probably will get worse, but...

I will be submitting my competition videos later after Christmas, not for the competition but as challenge. I can't make it before the 21'st as I've managed to hurt my tricep while filming a table tennis skit for school. :rolleyes: I insisted that we do a warmup or I will not be very willing to...

@Shuki @UpSideDownCarl Whatever you do or say won't stop any future idiotic postings. For me to know what is idiotic and wrong and what is not, I need to post it first and get some heat, then figure it out half a year later, hahaha.

@Shuki I understand your point. I haven't seen my current whip on video, but based on the shadows I've filmed, it's not gonna be the kind of severity that people think about when they say "good whip mechanics". I'm curious myself if I've actually added any in, or if it's something else...

How much of that is placebo and how much is reality? :p

Today was a fantastic day. I practice some serves for the challenge and played with my partner during the evening. I couldn't get any video, because quite literally everyone else except us had left the building. This is pissing me the hell off and I'm thinking of rigging together some kind of...

I never touched Starcraft or Warcraft competitively, or at all in depth really because the Asian community is so strong that you basically need to train full time to survive in anything over a mid tier bracket. I'm not too fond of spam-based RTS competitively anyway because I don't have the APM...

I haven't done any serves today, no access to table, so I will have to continue on Monday. I will probably upload my serves on Monday or Tuesday. Even if I won, I can't have the equipment shipped to me, so there's no rush on my part. :rolleyes: In a while I will not have any access to a table...

@Richie That's damn good. How can we even compete? ;)

Every day I've been doing the spin drill, I've got one more decent bounce onto the record. Today it was also much easier to control the ball laterally and to keep it low and fast. Although I can only do a couple. I'll probably keep doing this everyday for the rest of my life. Did some serves...

So: Even if you edit your video, or you fail at some point, as long as you present ten or more consecutive, unedited genuine short, heavy backspin serves that come into the net and stay on the surface of the table, it's game? I'll try it just to improve my serve.

@NextLevel Definitely taking up the serve challenge. I have just one question: Does it have to be on the first try?

I just hope NL can keep playing for as long as he'd like. I have to admit I don't understand the reality of an arthritic person, nor do I understand the reality of anyone older than a teenager. All I can do is try my best to avoid injury and further complications down the line, and hope other...