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I think I'd have rated them a bit higher at some point in time, but I think Nicolas' estimate is pretty close. It looks "good" but it's lacking the spin and shot selection that the comparison video you posted has. Not to mention the serves and blocks look a lot like mine, and while they're a...

How was that acting appropriately, then?

Hey, my posts aren't excerpts from some bad post-modernistic novel.

Carl, what? I said that I SHOULD post footage BECAUSE it will show the faults of my technique in a match environment. :confused:

Well, you can't know about something if you don't know about something. I've learned a lot of what I didn't even know I didn't even know, but the good thing is, I now know better what I don't know. Only uphill from here.

True, true. It'll be worse during a game and all the faults will come out. The only table I can hit at is unavailable and I am going insane as of recent times. We'll have to get back to it in a month and a half. It's gotten so bad that I shadow strokes at any moment that I can be in front of a...

NL, you seem to think people can't change. I'm long since over my "copying the pros" days. Hell, after I just started focusing on developing my OWN stroke and not a cheap imitation of someone else's, my mechanics got infinitely better and the stroke is a better ZJK imitation than I could have...

Carl, I have got my ass kicked before by people who threw something my way that I couldn't read even on the third time. I know what you mean: I've missed enough "easy" (What are easy shots in a sport such as this?) shots to know it myself. Sometimes you just can't even get the bat on it to the...

I find it funny how people will reference that Ma Long does this or Ma Long does that and thus I can do ANYTHING with my form, when he's not doing what they think he's doing: he's doing an entirely different stroke with entirely different spin and placement. You know, coming across the body...

Carl's right on the money. It doesn't matter what Ma Long is doing: you're not going to be able to copy it in the slightest by just looking and trying. You need to feel it. You can't copy it with your eyes because you will just not be able to do the movement, like you can't perfectly copy your...

Well, I haven't exactly rated myself recently. In all the videos I've shown, I'm sub 1000, so there's not much going on. The first time I played someone who could spin well enough to really pressure you with the topspin, I couldn't even get the bat on the ball. And of course, I lost every time...

NL, if the 1200 I'd be playing has a clear strategy of what he's going to do and really wanted to kick the shit out of me, I'd probably not beat him. Like Carl says, I've never *really* struggled to try to win and improve against someone who is on their game or above mine even. All my games have...

Jeff, I think @songdavid98 could have something for you.

Hey, he's not exactly bad. Based on the highlights. Give us the mistakes and then we'll talk. All I'm qualified to tell you is to go over video of you hitting forehands filmed from in front of you. Do you think you are driving from the hips or do you think you are pushing with your arm? I...

NL, if you did any more videos like that, we'd need to pay you. And just because I don't like something doesn't mean I think it's bad. Carl, I'd really want to play some (genuine) 1200's. You'd be surprised because they're damn near identical to the people I do already play. Well, apart from...

What do you feel are the advantages over shakehand in a tactical sense? Ie: because of the grip, you have a faster/slower transition into a FH loop from the middle if you were doing backhands etc.

That's what I'm looking for. A penholder probably knows best. ;) Take your time.

Good luck on what NL? I'm never gonna learn to play RPB well because I'm never gonna practice to play RPB well. Why go away from the style I'm good at and exclude myself from most coaches? It's just to muck around, for me.

Jeff, let's put it like this: I haven't been playing too long, but I've probably done way more serves than most people at my level. Hours of serve practice per day sometimes. I've NEVER hit the bat on the table when serving anything except tomahawk, more often it's hit my left leg and turned...

Why do you think that is? The techniques are difficult or because of the grip?