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Carl, understand the relative experience. If your technique improves a lot at the low level I am, it's a BIG improvement. And it's no feat to be able to spin anything that a sub 1500 player throws at you, I think. Indeed what I'm saying is happening. Now, can I loop like a 1400 player? Well...

Cornel, do you really think you can't brush too finely if the angle is very close to 90 degrees ie: vertical? Have you never barely hit the ball with a very open racket face when looping and just had it slide off? EDIT: My mistake, missed the too vertical. Yes, my stroke was probably too...

Carl, I know that words are cheap, but a lot of improvement has happened the past few months. No, I probably can't loop any 1600+ quality ball, but I can spin lower level shots probably around my level of quality. I couldn't do that before. I'm also holding the racket much looser and more with...

Well this is funny. I thought about my prior issue a bit based on what was discussed, and it's *mostly* fixed itself. I can't really tell you what has happened apart from "It feels better". I think my angle is somewhat more closed, but I can't say for sure. What is certain is that something...

@Cornel I don't think there's anything to be ashamed in my game. Where I am now in 2 some years with no coaching and no high level players of any kind nowhere to be found is fantastic IMO. Could be a lot worse. To make a video with a partner, I need a partner who will do drills/games with me...

Carl, you're entirely right. My point is that especially the forces are very different between traditional engineering subjects like automotives and heavy machinery vs a table tennis ball. It's known that REALLY big tires behave quite differently compared to teeny tiny ones. Even if made of...

What I know about theoretical rubber behavior comes from race engineers and automotive engineering books. Table tennis rubber hitting a ball and tire rubber moving along the ground is somewhat similar, but not really. So I'm inclined to not believe in the concept of overloading the topsheet...

If I wasn't doing something wrong, I wouldn't be posting about this, would I? Obviously, something is wrong with how I touch the ball. That we know. I have seen how people do slow loops, and I am not doing it right, I feel. I think I can reproduce this pretty easily, so I'll record it if I...

Good point. Somehow I thought this is a very common error and I would immediately get some insight.

I suppose I should provide video. Carl, that's the closest I can think of. It sounds like a toned down tire-screech, or the sound some erasers make if you brutally misuse them, whatever. In other words, what rubber sounds like when it's sliding on a surface. Isn't that the topsheet being...

Hey, I have a quick question. Up to a point, I can brush loop nowadays. However only with a fairly conservative swing. If I attempt to swing faster, the ball won't go out nor is the pace high, and there will be spin, but it will be lacking. On impact, I can hear a instantaneous...

It's really just about personality, I think. Look at someone like Joo Sae Hyuk or Waldner. Can you imagine them getting tensed up and needing to shout to release it? Of course, everyone gets tensed up and everyone deals with it somehow, but there are different ways for different people. Some...

Although I am yet to participate in any olympic table tennis games :rolleyes:, I prefer the Jan Ove-Waldner/Koki Niwa method. Stay completely unshaken and unmoved, whatever happens. I can't focus when I get pumped up: I just get carried away or tense.

Exactly. As soon as a player used to standing straight gets out of that comfort zone, they start to understand some basic things.

Whoever doesn't understand the value of standing low and with the weight forward, lower and more forward than they think is at all comfortable, should do some fast paced multiball. You learn pretty fast, what is good and what isn't good.

So tempted to start a huge flamewar over diversity vs nationalism, but I won't. God forbid I claim that we should have both, and that veering into one direction is just as bad as the other. Oops. ;)

I haven't seen it yet. He really did that? That's very classy. Perhaps it'll help ease Zhang Jike's mind as well.

So instead of being vulgar and jumping onto the table (Which is not bad in itself in any way), he showed his love to his fans and supporters, and that's somehow not good for the sport?

Can you guys stop the autism and just settle on the fact that you're not Aruna nor are you his coach, so you don't exactly know what's going on and why he does what he does? Good analysis can be made and has been made, but what the **** is this.

True, but he is talking about the CNT style of leaning wwwaaayyyy in nearly to a 90 degree bend at the back. You're not saying you need to go THAT low? Surely you just mean that it's a good habit to keep yourself low and not get lazy.