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Be glad you don't play in a public school. People routinely walk as close as is humanly possible to the table, especially behind you, ESPECIALLY when there's a lot of free space. I myself am a huuuuge fan of people stopping to look at a game, right in your forehand/backhand wing, getting as...

0:46, I'm stealing that one. ;)

Feeding the ego is never good. Just convince yourself that "I tried my best, but failed this time." sounds better than "Yet again, I failed because I didn't try."

You mentioned that once you expect to get attacked, you defend much better. Well, here's a though: Do you think better players get surprised if they get attacked? Isn't it a luxury that you have to work towards to NOT get attacked back, and it's very commonplace to have to deal with a strong...

I completely forgot that David has obviously been able to progress past the level he quoted in the post. Getting to 2100's is quite impressive in itself, but with no block... ;) @pgpg Interesting that you can have pretty big "flaws" in your game, and just crush the opponent with brute force...

Meth, not even once.

Ah, yes, I forgot that you don't exactly need a block at that level because they'll just give the points for you. What about "If you can't return a faster shot under pressure", then? Assuming OP's block is as bad as he says. Yes, sadly, it is. You'd be hard pressed to find low level...

I don't understand how you got to 1800's without a good block. My image of that level is that it's about where people start to be able to launch decent attacks, and you will get completely destroyed if you become useless as soon as an attack comes your way. Go play with some people A LOT worse...

Good short pips players should know how to loop with inverted. This guy is just simply a beginner, and the Knife hit the nail on the head.

When YOU raised the net. It worked for you, but it might not work for the pro game. That's what I'm getting at. You can't say that because your experience benefited, a completely different experience will also benefit. We'd need to do tests, for longer than one night. Maybe after some time, you...

I think it's the same case as defending being very viable at all levels except the very highest. We don't really know what'd it do to world-class play, but it COULD definitely benefit the sport. I don't want to deny that, because 1cm is not so much as people think. But, unless it gets...

Sketches are quite important. I can only draw characters without any base-lines if I've done them a million times and the subject matter and pose is familiar to me. Use reference when sketching. Pros do it, why not you? If you want to get better at drawing from a reference, practice simpler...

Well, it's your thread and you've already showed a bit: I don't mind more. I redo lines way too much. When I'm not shaky and chicken scratchy like I was with this, I make better lines, but I don't draw characters enough to achieve that professional line quality all the time. Don't worry if...

Here's one I just did now, @Boogar. I'm really not a character artist, and this is probably one of the worst pictures I've made in a long time, but eh. Tsukimoto Makoto from Ping Pong the Animation, and I did need to use photo reference: this is quite a hard pose to nail and I couldn't remember...

Perhaps we need to remember that the main reason why people don't watch table tennis is not because they're as dumb as the ITTF thinks they are and they can't follow the small ball, but it's because they simply don't have interest in the sport. Maybe we should get more people actually playing...

Of course not. Kenta Matsudaira would have been soooooooooo much better off without his tomahawk serve. All that talk of top players having problems returning it is just lies. :rolleyes:

I vote for WTTA. Don't trust anything with "International" in the name. :p

The only reason the ITTF would prepare for future advances in speed and spin of equipment would be to give a reason for said advances so that they can catch up to the slower, less spinny game, and thus there would be a need to produce more sophisticated, less long lasting, higher cost equipment...

Shuki, we're concerned with the effect of the change on top level play: not our play. Even at our play, changes like the plastic ball or a higher net do have a notable effect. You can't possibly assume that a minor change to a low level player will be a minor change to a truly world class...

ITTF is just putting band-aids onto the wound when they should be stopping the bleeding.