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You are right. A varnished blade has a weaker bond than a not varnished blade. But if you don't varnish your blade you run into the risk of a too strong bond and ripping off small bits of wood when your ripp off your rubber which can easily happen. So I would varnish every blade. One other...

I see. About WLQ, well I have heard that from someone who I have deemed to be a credible source. I can't recall who it was but I think it was a commentator. But it seems like he was wrong with this statement. And now when I think about it, commentators can talk a lot of crap. I have to be more...

Wow you have a lot of insight to this whole coaching stuff of the chinese. How do you get to know such things? Well, Liu Guoliang looks like the right man for the right job in my eyes. As for his successor, I don't feel like that none of Wang Liqin, Ma Lin or Wang Hao have that Godfather-esque...

Thank you for your insight on such an interestig topic. I have to note one thing tough, my analogy to a football trainer is pretty dumb actually. Football is a team-sport and table tennis is an individual sport. I guess an analogy to tennis would be much better. But there it's pretty mixed. Top...

Hi Noel :) Hast du dir das Olympische Finale der Männer im Tischtennis anschauen können? Ich habs nirgends gefunden im TV. Hoffentlich wird es in den nächsten Monaten auf youtube erscheinen. Gruss Lukas

Why can you assume that a good player is also a good coach? I mean most coaches in football(soccer) were not great players and are way better at coaching than their players. Are good tabletennis players good coaches because the sport heavily relies on an analytic mind? Or is it enough to have...

I realy would like to know as well. The ITTF ranking only went as far as 2015. I can't find newer information as 2015 on the internet. What happened to him? Is he still playing somewhere? Maybe in chinese super league? I realy would like to watch him play and see how much progress he made...

Thanks for all the posts. It is interesting to read. Cheers

I forgot to mention the equipment discussion. Who knows how good this Hurricane 3 Neo National Blue Sponge boosted with 5 layers of Falco Tempo Long and maybe a tear of an unicorn realy is. Neither do most people know about how good a boosted Tenergy 05 is and if there are special pro version...

I have never said that the superior forehand technique is the only thing that seperates the Chinese from the west. But next to the different style of footwork it is the most different thing to the "euro" technique department there is. And I see that those two things are important. Now how do...

I gave my points and your points a lot of thought and came to a conclusion: If I would make the post again that I did in the beginning I would change a lot. Before this post I couldn't just accept that the chinese players are so much better than the other players and started to search why. I...

So what is it that makes you think that I am not a good player? And what do you think is wrong with the way I frame this issue which I intentionaly overdraw a bit?

Thank you for your worries! My natural style of playing the ball was already a more "chinese" aproach at the beginning of me playing TT and that made it easier for me to teach things by myself with mirrors and shadow work and slow motion videos of chinese players to shape and direct my motion...

Unfortunately I think this is the way most sports start to be. You have to become more athletic and physicaly stronger to still be competitive and this causes more insuries. In my view Walnder and Samsonov are the two most genius players modern TT has ever seen. The reason for my thinking about...

Thank you all for your latest contributions. It changes my mind a bit. And I have to apologize also because I intentionaly made a bit narrow minded posts to get the most knowledge out of all of you. I will still say "euro" and "chinese" play style just to have something whereby I can better show...

Well I can't agree to what you say entirely because the motion of the full power "chinese" forhand compared to the full power "euro" forhand looks clearly different ,the short game of the "chinese" style is also different and the chinese rubbers makes the technique also different from the "euro"...

Yeah I get it now. If you apply my definition of a straight arm all of the time you get a lot of players with "chinese" style suddenly play "euro" style. But if you watch them taking a full power shot they have pretty straight arms at least in the beginning. But how would you distinguish both...

Well I am very critical and want to hear hard facts. And I don't just accept anything thrown at me. Yes it is a hard fight to win against me in the battle of "euro" vs "chinese" style discussion. But keep fighting maybe in the end you will win. Disprove me and you will win. But first my...

Thank you for your more clear words. I agree. Footwork is number one if you want to get far with the "chinese" play style. But it still leaves me with the question why the pro's outside of china don't try to imitate them? Wouldn't it be enough to even be 95% as good as let's say Fan Zhendong to...

Well I don't expect someone who is not young and athletic anymore to be an accurate measurment if a play style has more potential or not because anyone who is younger and more athletic will play better with any style.