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Talk to the good coach and tell him you really want to be serious about tt, what advice does he have?

I don't think ML and ZJK were born in 1998. WR1 at 11 years is a stretch. The new system will be fully populated after one year. If top players choose to play fewer than eight events then it will still be "a fraud" to anyone who doesn't accept that playing at minimum eight events is now a...

You are using an all+ blade, so you shouldn't have a hard time controlling a more active rubber. Try a tenergy on your bh (2.1 sponge). I like t05, but maybe t80 is for you. Then sometimes in a practice flip it over and try it on your fh. You might like it. Most forum geniuses hate it, but...

When you play him, it's really important that you not think about who you are playing, because that makes you get all scared and trembling, right? And who can play good like that, nobody! But you are lucky there is a very simple way to cure this and once you learn it you will always beat this...

Can you set it up over the table such that it will return a backspin serve with a short push? That would be useful.

Larkin Poe covering Ophelia by the Band https://youtu.be/LopWl5GxRCs

This is the funniest OP I've ever seen on a TT forum. It's not that easy to get heavy topspin on a pendulum serve on purpose, to do it by accident while trying to serve backspin takes genius. Assuming by "I am serving regularly" you mean fh pendulum serves, the difference may be where in...

Thanks for all the thoughtful answers. Brett also said if you train tired you will play tired. But I don't want to stop playing after 2 hours, since that would reduce my weekly table time by 15%. Like NL said, my approach can be the reverse of his. This partner serves 90% short, so when I...

Curious how people adjust their tactics or playstyle as your fitness wears down over the course of a day or tournament. My first coach Brian Pace used to say 'your technique breaks down when your fitnes breaks down.' This is definitely true for me. I play a very standard looping game, and...

Ask your opponent to play the training matches the same as he plays competition. Then he will beat you at 4 both times, problem solved.

Interesting quote about VOCs and poisons in the boosters. That's what emratthich said also. Why don't the boosted rubbers fail VOC testing then, have they off-gassed completely by check-in time? In a perfect world ITTF would allow boosters and start enforcing the rules against hidden serves...

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. 90%+ of sports have no mass spectator appeal. All winter sports, badminton, swimming, track and field, squash, equestrian sports, and a heap of others are basically participation sports with minimal interest outside participants and their families, except...

Because they want the ball to go over the net.

This happens to me sometimes in the super-nice club in Broward, complicated by the fact that I am too stupid to learn Spanish and many players there much prefer it. But I can count from uno to once, and if I go often enough people sort of become familiar with me simply from seeing me that many...

There's a cultural difference between nations with a more homogenous population and the US. So it's easy to misunderstand each other because we are thinking from such different frames. In the US the discussion has recently become more charged and toxic again (as it has also in some european...

I played a tournament last weekend, giant rr. There was one kid in the group of 11, and ten old men (florida). We all know each other and meet almost every tournament, incuding the kid. Nobody ever says anything about serves. The kid's dad started calling everybody out for every possible...

Sorry for the off-topic, but what do the advanced players look at after the bounce, their opponent? And when do they pick up the ball again?

This seems like a key difference between low-level players like me and good players. I think the importance of re-setting your body before the opponent hits the ball is left out of coaching a lot of times.

I watched with the sound off but thought the same thing. Career Samsonov must have played Boll how many times, 100+? And he is a great blocker. But on some of his block attempts vs Boll's fh he underestimated the spin by so much. It almost looked like the ball was flying straight up off his...

Maybe it is because you want to win very much. If you try to not think about winning or losing while you play, only think about how you are playing, and how your opponent is playing, that may help.