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Shoes are such a personal preference thing, I don't think I could ever buy a pair of shoes just on someone's word. Have to be there in person. Try them on. Test the fit. Test the grip. etc.

Thanks for the tips. I've also often wondered if really playing 5 hours of TT is really good practice at all after say hour 3 is complete. Those last two hours is probably overkill and my form probably starts to die off as I tucker out. I do notice that my loop consistency begins to drop off...

My goodness my TT brothers I'll tell ya, getting old sucks. For the second Monday in a row after Sunday's 4 1/2 hour club night, my knees (particularly my right) are paying for it. Last week it was Monday & Tuesday they were sore. We'll see how long it lasts this week. I wear a...

I don't think I curl it very tight around the front of the paddle. I go with whatever is comfortable. Sometimes probably more curled. Sometimes not curled all that much depending on however I'm angling the blade. I probably shoot for this. I don't think forefinger placement has much to do...

Last Sunday I found myself frustrated in a match I was playing where I had a number of balls hit to my BH and I instinctively hit them with TPB instead of RPB. I was playing duel inverted at the time. It seems as much as I try, I cannot un-program the natural TPB position when a ball is quickly...

Penholder and fellow lefty? Welcome my Xu Xin little brother. :P Yeah the reverse penhold FH serve is tricky for me. I alternate between that and trying a standard reverse pendulum serve but I think among penholders, the reverse penhold FH serve is more common. Maybe because you can hide most...

In both cases, you can't slide the ball across the rubber. They should both grip well. But a good tacky rubber when new might even be able to pick the ball off the table if you press the paddle on it. Or if you touch it with your finger, the surface will actually feel stickier. Some general...

I'm not suggesting you can't. Most of the time, you can simply watch someone's play and gauge if they're further along than you or behind you. So I'm assuming you saw the match and thought "I've got this." But I'd like to note here that I've seen plenty of cases of... Player A Player B Player C...

Hi violoniste, I currently play inverted FH, LPs on the RPB side. Use to twiddle a lot between them but now twiddling less & less. More on that in another post. So yeah I played years of short pips, mainly 802-40 on that stock 35 deg sponge, for years on my Stiga clipper. 802-40 is my...

Yeah I hear ya. I only ended up that way because black is supposedly a hair tackier than red. That and if the CNT team does it, I might as well also. That'll help me play like Xu Xin right?? :p So yeah got used to black being the attacking side and it just stuck. Even when I use to play SPs on...

Good question and I could see how that'd make sense but on the backhand side, yes flush with the handle. On the FH, my black (in my head now. Black always has to be the attacking rubber) inverted side is raised up for the forefinger. ... As I suspected, the ali express seller said it doesn't...

As said earlier in a post. I think it's important to drill your skills vs your regular mates a week or two before and try to improve weaknesses but I don't play someone real tough in a match just shortly before a tournament. Get in the habit of wining and keep your spirits up. I want to be...

You'll be fine. Since this is your first LP rubber, no sense in going to buy a new blade to boot. If you're just feeling it out for the first time, I think it makes more sense to keep your setup the same (as in keeping the same blade you're already use to) to feel the difference in how the...

So I generally find at club I'm playing more consistently than at tournament. Tournaments, at least where I'm located, there's a good amount of in between time. You play in your group of 3 or 4 round robin. So there's 2 or 3 matches there. Assuming you advance out of your group, you should be...

No one best type of serve. Ask Par Garell. He will tell you the punch serve is the best type. And that's a very common type of serve. Ask ZJK. Maybe he'd tell you the reverse pendulum serve is the best type of serve. Maybe Ding Ning might say the tomahawk (normal & reverse) is the best type of...

I think we should add the confusion of the OP and let him know there's many more styles that weird style or smooth style... Strange those were the two he choose. Power player style? Spin based player style? Too broad a brush that doesn't mean anything. Lets get more specific. Single winged FH...

Welp this just happened. :/ It's not a big deal but the OCD in me with rubbers fitting bothers me. I've asked for a refund or replacement of something else. Probably won't happen since it's from China but oh well.

No I don't really have a backup plan or altered plan. I probably should as endurance is a part of the game. Particularly at tournaments. I think it makes sense that if you're playing someone you're flat out superior two, to dial back the power or amount of energy you're using in your loops or...

Whew got to say this is a new one. Never heard of this problem before. I mean backspin & topspin are completely opposite spin types. I suggest you record yourself here and post your training. Tell us what serve you're going for. That'll be the starting point.

Well setup points is largely something you discover on your own or should test out on your own because you might handle certain types of spin better or worse than others. So it's a personal preference thing. You should go experiment. That being said, as a lefty penholder, I'll give you a couple...