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SMH. (giggle) Go to 4:56 in this video... you should really watch the whole match. it's a good one. But i'm not surprised. The ole bubble on Hurricane strikes again. ;)

Oh the fade. I do like that. Primarily because I wish i had that shot in my bag. As a penholder, I can easily drop the head of the blade to get a nasty hook but with penhold, you just can't bend your wrist back like that like you can shakehand for the fade. I've seen Xu Xin do that shot (the...

He's beating up on a kid here but I've ripped off my best serve combination from He Zhi Wen You don't have to play short pips to play this style. #1 serve: Nice & wide. Breaks wide to them. You can apply side/top or side/back. Your choice. Great vs short players or those who are not very...

Funny because we're going in opposite directions. about a month or two ago, I switched to inverted from a long stint on SPs. Few things I'd like to touch on. Stop twiddling to play something with inverted and then back to SPs. IMO you're using your familiarity as a crutch (because it's what...

I know he for sure didn't use it in the 80s. He learned it later on as the game has changed. Good for him. Always keep improving.

Again this topic probably only applies to the few who are penholders and actually left handed but i'll take thoughts from righties also. I know songdavid is a lefty. Maybe he'll see this. One part of my game that i'm trying to work on is service receive. Being a lefty, I'm wanting to use RPB...

lol Holy Green Giant that guy is freaking tall. He's a good example of how I think taller penholders might have the TPB feel more natural as the RPB is easier to contact around mid section to chest height. That guy couldn't get low enough if he tried. Thanks for lookin out. Keep the...

Looking for lefty penhold players to reference. This might not matter to most of you here but I find the dynamics of a TT matchup vary so much from a lefty vs a righty compared to a righty vs righty. For that reason, while I like watching players like Xue Fei play (amazing BH), I feel it's...

So I was talking to a buddy I've kinda been help train here at work who competed in a tournament this last weekend I couldn't go to. I heard he took 1st place in the D division. I was happy for him, said congrats. Then come to find out today that his main training partner, who took 1st in C...

Does anybody know what's going on here? I see there are two of the new DHS 40+ 3 star ABS (they call it cell-free) plastic balls. The one with picturing Ding Ning is roughly 50 cents a ball. Our club uses these and everybody likes them...

I've always suspected that DHS's topsheets are very, very lightly glued to the sponge. I've owned 3 DHS rubbers over the years. I glued them up with rubber cement which does expand the sponge ever so slightly. Never had a problem with it on any other Chinese rubber ever except for DHS. All 3...

Well you're 90% right. I was trying to save money and i thought that the upgrade difference wasn't that great. I didn't think tensor people where idiots. :) I just thought the difference was small. I was wrong. For first night with it, I'm very happy with my play. I'll be on the lookout for...

Had my first hit last night with MXP on the FH & FXS on the BH. Previously I had always played cheap Chinese tacky rubbers when I would actually play inverted (have spent a lot of time with pips over the years also). All i can say is wow. I don't think I've had that many 3rd ball attack winners...

Strange the video was taken down. Here's a gif of the same shot exceot it looks like Fan gives him a side-spin serve where as Ma Long in the original link gave purely backspin.

My fav Chinese rubber was probably Geospin Tacky or Gambler Wrath. Both of these were similar in that they were on pretty soft sponges for Chinese rubbers. I don't like hard, stiff sponges. I prefer the feel of something springier. In my experience while both these rubbers come crazy tacky when...

I was watching this video of a match between Xu Xin vs Ma Long back in 2016. It was one of the few times in Xu's career where he actually got over on Ma Long. Anyways, the shot he does on this point at... http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=lqD8aTk7pg8&p=n#/1100;1105 I find extremely interesting...

If using Chinese rubbers, I've always used rubber cement. I find it easier to work with and faster than standard table tennis glues. But you should know that rubber cement slightly expands your sponge. So if say you have a tuned already stretched euro rubber that's epensive, you have to ask...

+1 I think they both have their place. Particularly on the ameteur level where change of pace is good. On the pro level, it seems anything slower mostly gets killed but I don't know. I find the chop/side block easy to execute with TPB and I like it as a change up. Ma Lin used the shot a lot...

Sounds like you're a shakehander which is fine if so. I don't see how the RPB effects the FH at all. If anything, it allows you to have to run around fewer shots to hit your FH at the same time putting you out of position. You're free to just play the more agressive RPB vs the slower TPB...

I think the player basically has to be Wang Hao. Even though he came up just short in the Olympics, we have to remember just how good he was for so long. I think his skill level was right there. But for it to happen today, they'd have to be like him and willing to play more middle of the...