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Am i understanding this right that this is the OP's first official tournament he has played in? If so, excited for you. But I'm guessing there will be some nerves or you might feel like you're playing a little tight. There's no real substitute for tournament experience but to keep playing in...

The two coaches at your club would probably be best to answer this given they're familiar with your play and what's a realistic goal for you to set, etc. But to broadly answer your question.... Professional coaching, a lot of practice time, and traveling to play in tournaments. There was a...

I've never seen WCT's grip before. That's basically my grip I use to use when I would twiddle with my cpen. Certainly if I used that grip now, I'd get fewer finger balls when I hit my RPB shot. But then I think I'd missing the feeling and power I get from a fingers almost extended more...

Feast your eyes on this! I've never seen this Kaii Yoshida montage before. Some amazing stuff. I've always thought when it comes to penhold FH form, I'll put Kaii's stroke right up there with anybody I've seen. Some thoughts or notes: 1:30 Is that the Xu Xin wristy FH flip? What do people...

I feel generally softer sponge does offer better feel yes but I think it's important to note what blade you have. I have two blades, a clipper which is as stiff as they come. And I've found I like really soft on that to balance out the stiffness. Gives a pinch of flex if you will. I don't...

Right. It's a good point I'll have to reference since as stated there simply isn't a ton of left handed penholders. There's also this cool Chrome extension tool that lets you flip the video on youtube. Called Mirror Tube. Guess in the future I'll be flipping a lot of Xue Fei vs lefties once Xu...

For sure Wang Hao RPB flipped way more serves than Xu Xin. Shoot even watch newcomer Xue Fei and he also flips far more serves than Xu Xin. But he's also right handed. I think there's something to it being left handed that makes it trickier. As stated before, on a righting pendulum serve, the...

Played pretty solid last night. However, in one singles match that I lost, I keep thinking about my return of service. Now granted I was playing someone who always beats me so I was probably pressing a little more than I should trying to end points early. I should just stay relaxed and play...

Great to hear OSP. We're on a similar journey right at the same time. So for the last week or two there's an older gentlemen at our club who lives right by my work. A couple or few times a week I go over there for a quick hit session at his place. This guy plays a semiller grip and while his...

I have relatively strong feelings about this sort of thing and it seems all too common among TT boards. I mean I get it. We're here to talk TT. Don't take this the wrong way because it could sound anti technique or form. That's not what I'm about at all. But I think far too common people do this...

I think we're really splitting hairs here and there isn't much difference at all. To me they all look mostly straight or slightly curled. If there are differences, I think we're talking maybe a inch here or there in placement of the fingers on the back. Again, splitting hairs. So IMO Wang Hao...

I remember Liu Guoliang saying once in a a documentary interview how proud he was that China claimed all the top spots in an Olympics or something like that. So when I first read the topic "lost on purpose" my gut reaction was to say no way. But after watching the video and understanding how...

When I saw that I went "oooh" verbally while watching it. That's a serve though once you scout it, just have to be ready for because that's side/top. She got Dan there because he probably didn't know she had that in her bag. I doubt she'd get away with that next time. If the opponent reads it...

Yeah that's a good point to the OP I omitted in my response. Pay attention to angles and when it's possible for them to play that really wide to your FH shot. If the ball is in the middle of the table or to their wide FH, no real threat of a really wide FH that you can't cover. The ball will...

I'd reach out to Liu Guoliang to see if he's available for private lessons.

As a lefty and being very familiar with this concept, you have to know your own limitations. I use to love it in my younger days when people would test me out wide because I could get there and give them back a heavy cross-court sidespin loop back at them that seems aided by their angle...

OSP, Man that's some good content. How awesome. Thx for posting all that. Very cool to keep providing content and to be able to meet up with other forum members. Sounds like a good time. Where are you located BTW? So after thinking about out in something you mentioned earlier, I think you're...

Woah. Just got this email. <tbody class="m_-9061115994282941962mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tbody> 2018 PADDLE PALACE 10K HAWKEYE OPEN(August 3-5, 2018)$10,000 Prize Money and AwardsTournament #4 on the USATT Midwest Circuit USA Table Tennis 4-Star Sanctioned Tournament Professional Live-Stream...

Grab a tripod or some sort of stand. Put it angled behind you on your open FH side. Record a full match. Was a nice point. But it's 7 seconds long. Hard to take away much from that.

Yeah. When I was playing SPs, I didn't like to watch old 38mm ball era SP play. Sure there was a ton of video out there and I suppose you can still get technique tips but the differences in how the ball plays from 38mm celluloid to now 40+ plastic is too different. For that reason, I started a...