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Boogar I get your point. However it really isn't hard to loop slow without that much spin or to block soft at people who are a little worse than you. Well, maybe it is. During the whole week I was such a mess that all I could do was poke at the ball. Today was just a good day. I'm really...

That's better, Boogar. Now we're on the same page. I don't know what a video would do in the context of the post. It was just a blog basically. I was sick today and all week, still am sick, and I tried out a different playstyle. I focused on serves and a more passive playstyle. That's about...

Fast being relative. Long, one bounce on my side one bounce on theirs. Sidespin on the ball when it's on the ground. Curves heavily to the left from my view. However it's nowhere near as fast as a "real" fast serve. I really didn't feel like recording any serve footage lately, because I hadn't...

Ah, you're right, of course, the wrist. I took my bat out of my bag now and tried it out: I was thinking too much of punching with a pretty locked wrist. That in mind I can see the reverse pendulum being more effective against TPB if it's long vs short. The sudden movement towards the...

I advise Boogar to put me on ignore too if he doesn't want to read my blogs. I don't think anyone's at a loss here, then. I'm not fond of whining myself.

@UpSideDownCarl To clarify: When receiving regular pendulum sidespin from a right hander as a right hander, you want to touch on the right side, and angle your blade to the left, right? For reverse, you want to touch on the left and angle towards the right? Isn't receiving reverse pendulum...

@Airoc I don't have experience playing with soft, modern rubbers, but I can tell you this: Playing with 729 FX has been good for my development. I don't feel like it's too difficult to use. If I do good strokes, I get good results, and I always know nearly exactly what I did wrong if a shot...

OSPH, so you feel that it's more so player specific than penhold specific? Why do you have difficulty returning smooth, fast executed serves? Is the quality of the ball higher, or do you have difficulty reading it?

OSPH, cheers. How do you like reverse pendulum serves to the backhand? Is it a weakness for penholders? I think my partner has problems pushing it back from his backhand wing. Is the angle for the sidespin hard with TPB? Boogar, explain. What exactly do you want me to post, then?

I decided to kick my sickness' ass today. I made sure I was warmed up and tried to play a more "mobility limited" style due to not being able to use much energy. I did much better than most of the week. I got my fair share of block and push points instead of just pure attacking. The penholder I...

@Der_Echte Your translations of KJH's stuff and now providing us this is just too much. You're the hero we all want but probably don't deserve. Do keep doing what you're doing. ;)

Lately, I've sucked. Normally I'm not that good, but we're talking about some real suckage here. Mentally and physically I've been in a rut and my muscles feel too cold and body too heavy all the time. I suspected it, but I'm sick now! Now that excuse is actually valid. Perhaps one of the rare...

I've been playing and doing drills with a lot of pretty new players these days, 500-something tier guys, and I noticed two faults in my game: As the rally goes on, I get more and more upright. Against better players I only get up once the rally starts going on, but the first few balls, I'm low...

Bob, I'm not too sure if it works like that. I thought it worked like that, at first. However receptors have hard limits from what I understand. Someone better qualified might be able to explain in detail: I don't know the science behind it well.

NL, I've watched all the content on his channel. It has indeed been helpful for me. Most of it makes sense for a low level player. However, calling this high level Chinese coaching strikes me as something pretty funny. Ray, good that you got something out of it.

Ray, what tip did you try out and how did it work out?

The vibe I've got from this channel is that it's heavily biased towards Asian table tennis. He seems to view Caucasians as less intelligent and incompetent or something. Not to the extent of Asia having better and more knowledge: to the extent where westerners are just idiots. That's just not...

There's much more to the game than just feel, so you're probably right. I can imagine, with my unqualified knowledge, that depriving one sense regularly, in the long term, would be like removing one of your thumbs. Might help in the short term with increasing finger mobility, but in the end of...

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Carl, I can't comprehend what I'm reading right now. Do you believe that surgeons used to working for years with thick gloves and obstructive glasses on, with poor feel and vision, don't become much more adept at doing jobs with poor feeling and vision? Do you believe that blind people don't...