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Babby's first psychological analysis.

Not too bad serving in some of the biggest table tennis countries, eh? ;)

My playing style has a fairly big swing and emphasis on serves and setting up points with short play. You could call it a cheap imitation of Chinese play. I know that equipment should favor and follow the style, and not the other way around, so I think my ultimate setup would be a very spinny...

I'm the biggest offender of this, hence why I brought it up. It makes a huge difference though, and someone your level can probably make more use of the proper position. It's like the power, spin and consistency are tripled and all you had to do was get low and wide! Now, staying there during...

That's great. Do you start putting down values immediately or sketch out with pencil first?

@baumschule Although I am much lower level than you, maybe I have something that would help your backhand consistency: Bend you knees and bend from the hips so that you hit the shot at your chest height. Maybe even close to neck height. When you hit the backhand, especially a loop, very low...

Getting into position. That means, distance from ball, position of body relative to ball, height of stance, stance width etc. Everything else just falls into place if I get that right. I don't think that consciously being aware of how long your followthrough is, how fast you snap your elbow vs...

I store my bat in a compact case. I wouldn't do just this with any "proper" rubber, but I'm probably going to upgrade to a different rubber before it starts showing any real signs of wear. :rolleyes:

Boogar mentioned the salt from sweat. He has somewhat of a point, but the oil from the skin will maintain the rubber anyway. I don't know about any noticeable boost effects though. Maybe with Der_ sweat. :rolleyes: I'm somewhat pragmatic: I barely clean my rubber during games apart from a wipe...

Carl, I think this is a severe case of table tennis addiction. You're getting withdrawal symptoms. You either play, or suffer from pain that will just keep increasing.

Greg, your views are appreciated. Clear and to the point, I think. Ramble all you want. ;) Yesterday I mentioned that I had worked on getting lower. Well, I still play like a tree. Lower than before, but I've progressed from "Very tall tree" to "Still quite tall tree". :rolleyes: But, I can...

@Der_Echte Probably the biggest change in my game has been just getting lower and more forward. Wouldn't have done it without video, because it required some physical training so that I can feel comfortable in a more correct stance. Of course, everything else improved based on that. But I had...

Carl, I never said I have problems getting my bat on the ball. Are you going to imply that I also learned to walk recently because I mentioned it in my post? :rolleyes: Sorry, but you're just speaking silly things. On the topic of video, I have taken video for myself in the past. I'm not...

NL, 99% of my progress has pretty much nothing to do with my stupid questions. It's like you still don't understand why I ask them.

I'm a beginner and it's my first setup. It does what I'd expect it to and it doesn't like bad technique. Control is good. That's what counts for someone my level. I also like the Chinese hard sponge tacky topsheet feel. Why do you feel that it's a bad rubber?

Well, NL, you're far ahead of me in essentially everything in this game. I know from experience that at a point, things just slow down. You make discoveries, but they're not so huge anymore because you're not correcting wrongs, you're mostly improving upon something that's mostly right. Getting...

Breathing on it and sweat during games, then just rinse over with water to get all the crap to go away. I use essentially indestructible, barely wearing 729 Super FX, which is like 10eur a sheet anyway. Some of the tackiness has decreased since I bought it months ago, but the grip is still very...

I think it's high time he has a break. It seems hard on him with the injuries.

Cornel, I try to keep my swing plane about the same as my racket angle. Of course it's just a little bit more open than what my swing angle is, but very close. I thought it was obvious that my stroke angle would follow the blade angle change. Of course if I change my angle more closed and swing...

True. Especially the point about racket angles. I think I first understood how to really topspin when I produced some spin with the racket angle around 45 - 50 deg or so. Up to then I was just banging into the ball slightly with a very vertical swing and very small angle of closing. Without...