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It is a good question Tom. I'm not sure. I think I must be the weird one because you see all over "How to beat China? Is there any stopping China?" As an American (pointing that out to show I have no regional basis), I really don't care how or if a country does or can beat China. I just want to...

Should we agree to just copy Carl's post and paste it whenever this question comes up inevitably again in another thread a few months down the road? Answer was perfect and why they're great. Different countries or regions have the means and simply care more about certain sports and thus they...

Yeah short serves to my FH that are topspin i usually over the table FH flick. It's really a shot you should have. Don't make too much out of it. It's kinda like a normal FH drive with a small swing. It won't be the most powerful thing ever but the key is that it has decent pace and more than...

Ha. Nice. Like the angle you were there. Although I think we should add that we didn't get to see his FH with the plastic ball. If we're doing the people still alive game, there's a lot of people who could be in the running in the 38mm era. ;) But I digress. I'll put in my vote for that it's...

Some good notes there. One thing I'll mention (this falls under point 2 of remember the game plan). In practice I'm willing to work on the stuff I'm not all that great for. That's what practice or club night, shoot sometimes even in a club match, I'll try some things. All about getting...

I kinda got a good chuckle out of their comments. On a separate note, I'm kinda with the lady here. Let kids be kids. But no. This girl has essentially gone professional playing 5 hours a day from the age of 3 I'm guessing. 10 bucks says she burns out by the age of 10 and never wants to play...

I think this is an excellent question and just the fact that you are aware of this leads me to believe you're well on your way to figuring it out. Being self aware is half the battle. I'm with you. I've often played and have posted my matches here before (a good tip for examining your games if...

Yeah. I only play TPB because when it comes to blocking, I'm so much more consistent with TPB blocking. RPB i can't block back more than 2 or 3 hits. I only use it for flipping service return and/or attacking any high BH balls, etc. I'm in the unenviable situation of trying to get good at both...

Well I'd say if you're at the point to where playing every BH shot with RPB feels normal to you given you've been training that for over a year, I'd stick with that and wouldn't worry much about mixing in some TPB. Don't want to undermine the hard work you've put in. If I was learning the game...

Oh snap he's alive! :p Glad to see you back OSP As someone who started out SH and use to have a good BH, I've contemplated switching back to SH from penhold from time to time wondering if that'd take my game further. But whenever I try it, inevitability with like a week i'm sad about it. You...

penholder here. I mean the handle on a penhold blade will be thicker slightly and they generally have slightly enlarged heads so the feeling won't be exactly the same. Having said that, i could say "the feeling wont be exactly the same when comparing any two penhold blades." I think it's...

I haven't watched much Mima Ito before this tournament. Knew of here just never watched much of her. What struck me was that her FH stroke is completely smashing & short pips like despite playing inverted on that side. Her BH is classic fast SP style of play so that makes sense.

My former training partner (he moved away) had a stretch where we'd play and I could not give him any type of serve to his BH that he couldn't flip and it drove me crazy. But I adapted and made adjustments. Eventually becoming the primariy focus as to why I beat him as I gave him a different...

Common occurance IMO. I'd like to ask the OP how many tournaments he has played in? How many tournaments per year does he play? If you don't play in enough tournaments per year or simply don't have a lot of tournaments under your belt, then it's easy for the nerves factor to kick in. And when...

Just depends. If you're facing someone who stinks at the push game and/or really prefers topspin open play, might as well drive them crazy and keep the game there. But generally I try to open up on the first ball I deem to be easy in my head. Furthermore, practicing looping backspin helps a...

Should we all just pitch in 5 bucks each so mischasin can just buy a new one? Told you back in Nov of 17 you'd better off just buying a new one vs hoping on the 1% chance someone here is selling one and for some reason would come to this thread vs say putting it on ebay or somewhere else...

It's just one of those silly rules that exists, but everybody tries to almost break it or practically break it and nobody cares because we all agree that everybody is doing it. So it's all even. It's like boosting in that way kinda. I don't think it's really a problem. They all do it. Some more...

Nope nothing to add there. Looks like classic good SP FH to me.

Does anybody count on sink into the sponge on service to gain spin? Unless your toss is super high, I just don't see how that works. At a normal toss, the ball isn't really moving fast enough to sink into the sponge much IMO. Your spin comes from how finely you slice the ball. If you're talking...

Gambler Reflectoid is the best rubber for zagging the ball IMO. Sometimes comes off a little medium if you're not careful. But if you wiggle it a little, you can get it to be soft. I'd go Gambler Reflectoid. Hope this helps.