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Yeah truer words have never been spoken. Funny how you're not there but you know exactly what's happening. Well done. Point 1 is a big factor. It's mostly that people don't see or ever practice against an attacking LP stroke I think that throws them off. They just see Long Pips and assume...

Club update from 12/18/16: Who would have thought, when you stop switching equipment, you improve. (note: laced heavily with sarcasm) I'm continuing to see improvement. Last night I took on two of the better players at club. One of them named Mark, is a borderline 2000 player who I have never...

That's fair. And yes such a simple solution to what's one of the more dumb things in table tennis. Just start calling excessive choing based on the umps impression. Choing? Sure still accepted. But if it's excessive & over the top? Start calling it.

Seems to make sense though. My daughter is 6 and the penhold grip is really hard for her to get her fingers around. On a side note, Harimoto has done this to himself. Now known for being an obnoxious screamer to where you mention his sister and it's the first thing everybody thinks of. Is she...

Water gardening, video games, Family time (wife & two little girls).... and not in that order. I'd be in trouble. :p

I don't want to spam the board so I thought I'd put this in chit chat. Hopefully I've built up a good enough reputation along with some of you to "give me a pass" on this one but our table tennis club, which I help operate, essentially does not have any way, that the parks & rec department will...

+1 It is hard to judge from this one game because A, I can't do what 2000+ daniel does. And yes he wins because he does basically everything Ben does but better. I do think that's a solid point about Daniel keeps serving to Ben's FH short. Not afraid of the flip or gets a push return. I know...

Had a good session at club last night. Beat for the second time in a row this older man who use to give me fits. It's exciting when someone who use to beat you 3-0 you finally overcome. My new playstyle really fits my game and more importantly, not switching equipment or play styles is really...

My vote was bad for the game. Outside of the changing the game from 21 to 11, I think all the changes have been negative. If I had my say about it, I'd: - Get rid of the no hiding service rule. Can't stand how, and when, people complain that this pro hides there serves when they're all trying...

If you see a slow mo replay in this entire clip of him putting some decent backspin on it, let me know. Truth of the matter is that I've seen several slow mo videos of ZJK's serve and as far as I can tell, it's always pure sidespin and just very low & spiny. All those replays look like they're...

Hard to answer honestly. What era are we talking? The game has changed too much IMO. 38mm era? 40mm celluloid era? 40+ plastic era? You might now think there's not a huge difference but I'll contend going from the slightly faster & more spiny celluloid era to slower 40+ plastic era certainly...

I think the guy certainly is a player type that likes to irritate his opponent. Hence the bat flipping thing. I don't think it probably bothers the serve much since you're looking at the ball and what you're doing during your serve. I just want to so badly see him drop his paddle just once...

This club looks just like the one that's tabletennisclub chicago. I'm assuming it's the same place. I always get email updates when they go streaming live from youtube. THey do it quite often.

For sure OSP that point at 4:43 I should have attacked. 7:41. So on this one I served long and hit attacked it back to me. I had LP on my forehand. In a case like this, i can't block it back with my LP. It pretty much has to be a chop-block. he just out Spun me & out powered me so i sent it...

@Archosaurus That first video makes me think you must have watched a lot of Timo Boll growing up. Got that massively elbow bent technique. Very euro. I'm not the person to give any pointers there. if anything my stroke is more arm extended. Keep the content coming. +1

So this funny because yeah, it is a small world. Now that I know where you're from, you must have been talking about the 2-star tournament in KC. We had two club members from the LTTA there. Colin Henslee, who said he didn't play that great, and Daniel Stepanyuk, an 11 year old boy who is...

Wow you're close. Probably is. We live in Nebraska. I would say he's been coming to club routinely for about the last couple of months for so. Somewhere around there. Where are you from by the way?.. So I know where Dong is from. @oldscholpenholder Thanks. I really really enjoy how twiddling...

Help me improve. So where I live, there isn't a professional coach in the entire state. So I'm calling on you guys for some virtual training here. :) I had a good, closer than I thought it would be, match. (again never under estimate people thinking you'll win or lose. just play. I really...

Well I can't speak for everybody but what brought up the clipper talk was the pics I posted. It's a clipper classic. I guess I've always assumed that if someone just says clipper, they mean classic. Because yeah I'm with ya. They should designate what clipper they're talking about otherwise.

Ugh tell me about it with playing newer players. I've been practicing hitting more with my long pips when I twiddle. It's going well so far but I feel I play better vs players who hit with speed & some spin so I can let the long pips go to work. When playing my friend, who is improving, here at...