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We had our state games tournament over the weekend. Running a tournament and playing in it is always challenging but it went well. Even though I did not medal, I'm pretty happy with the way I played. I had the goal to make it into the next class singles up from the one lower which I always...

I think i get it. You kinda negate the sidespin aspect by somewhat bullying the ball over the top with a high quality topspin stroke if I'm following correctly.

When you guys perform your backhand over the table flip vs short pure side-spin serves, do you care or take into account if you are going with or against the grain of the spin? Does it matter to you? Do you care? Do you perform the same stroke regardless? What are your thoughts on this...

okay. Why?... Wait. Nevermind.

I use to play with LPs and IMO there are different camps of type of LP players. Some of them largely just stick it out there and kinda block the ball. For these people, yes do that strategy. Then there are some LP players who have practiced attacking backspin serves with their LPs which is very...

Granted I'll give you that her haircut & thin frame doesn't exactly give it away so it's easy to miss but Sun Chen is a female. :) We'll just call it a typo. ;) I love her game though. Her RPB is nice and her SP FH has a ton of power when she goes for it.

Really need to get a new camera so no footage for a while. But you know how you stay at a certain level for a while and then hit a jump. Either your play simply goes up or something clicks in your head allowing you to do something much better than you did before? Kinda feel like I had one of...

Well I think the world becomes a little less interesting every time I hear about someone going from penhold to shakehand. I can't blame you. I thought about the switch. But one thing that struck me that I didn't see coming was how sad I felt playing shakehand and missing penhold. To put it...

Consider me confused. You're telling me this guy with short pips is returning your "heavy topspin loops" with short pushing action. Are you sure it's short pips and not long pips? Is he close to the table doing this chop block motion or is he off the table doing more of a chopping motion which...

Had a good hit session at club yesterday. I'm really trying to focus on improving the techniques I might not be as strong at when I got to club vs trying the "just win at all costs" approach. Sure you could push that long backspin serve but does that really help you?.. That's the type of stuff...

Same as it was just before the plastic era? Two winged shakehand loopers. Nothing has as far as what's the most dominate style from what I've seen.

Well when I think of that trick, I think of Xu Xin who has basically cat nails. It's weird. Anyways, if yours are super short, you'll have to curl your fingers more to where only your nails touch the ball. Basically you can't have skin touching the ball for the effect you're looking for. Start...

Those 4 people who voted for DIMA right about now are looking like geniuses. :p :p :p

I just broke my wrist watching that.

Never reported back from the tournament I had last Saturday. Turns out there was some pretty good competition. Parviz Mojaverian, who is ratings central (that's typically lower than USATT) 2027 won it. He beat a John Chen who I had never seen before. Parviz must at lest be in his 60s so it's a...

I think this was touched on by others so I'll try to be quick. I play penhold short pips so I won't really comment on whip mechanics or spinning it up on your FH. While it's good to want to improve every aspect of your game (here you were talking about FH consistency), I think you should focus...

Got a tournament tomorrow in Omaha Nebraska. Anybody in the area going to be able to make it? Going into the tournament I feel my playing level right now is just okay. Not bad but I'm not going in hot. I'm trying to remind myself that however I've hit over the last week or two doesn't matter...

This post might fall on def ears with the rarity of short pips players but I'll talk about it nonetheless. I'm ever trying to refine my technique for a better FH with short pips. Unfortunately in the past, I've played a lot of inverted so my technique is probably somewhere in the middle. I...

If I didn't love my clipper and was looking to ever jump back into JPen, I've been saying it for a good while now. Nittaku Sou 100%. 1 - Nittaku makes fantastic blades. 2 - It's double sided so you don't have to be stuck in the 80s or ever get frustrated by not being able to play a more modern...

Hard to say. I think the game has changed too much to really compare. Ball material & size almost makes it like a different sport on the pro level. That being said, sports consistently evolve. Players today are doing techniques players simply didn't do back in the day. (ex: over the table BH...