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My grip is deep, and I touch with pretty much only the tip. It's more comfortable and gives better control. Someone who has a more neutral grip lower on the handle might want to use the entire finger, especially if they have a more forehand biased grip. My grip is what you'd call "backhand...

Seeing as we're talking about sensory information here, can it not be possible that perhaps some people feel better with the entire finger, and some with the fingertip? Of course, you can argue this from a scientific standpoint, but we're talking about a practical standpoint. It's not like...

"Slap" isn't the first thing that comes to mind when talking about looping. What exactly is meant with this? Contact force or just an additional wrist movement?

Carl, your last posts have been hilarious. I had a good laugh. Thanks.

It's just practice, probably. I can hit quite a good penhold loop even if it's REALLY not my main style at all, but I make many mishits, due to the grip changing and the timing not being quite there yet. You need to find the grip for you that does not hurt your hand at all, where you can play...

When I decide to penhold for the heck of it, I use Xu Xin's grip. I have short fingers, but somehow, due to my bone structure, I make it work. It was quite painful and heavy on the fingers at first but now over the months as I've got used to it, it's very comfortable and my natural penhold grip...

Brett doesn't go as in-depth as I'd like (Although I'm sure he would if I signed up for paid coaching.) but his teaching of fundamentals to beginners is exceptional. I wouldn't have ever got as good as I am now with my limited experience had it not been for Pingskills' and TTEdge's content. Of...

TTFrenzy does have a point. Brian mostly plays pretty much trash players compared to "actual" high level players. They can't match a player who is at least as solid as Brian. It's the same effect that happens when some lower professionals, who are immensely good, go and play Ma Long and look...

An added bonus of using some "obscure" blade with "inferior" rubber is the feeling you get when you beat on ALC/Tenergy scrubs who stare at their bat on every miss. :rolleyes:

Bear in mind that when I said jumping, I meant literally jumping, as in being in the air for any moment. All footwork is essentially jumping, instead of say taking steps. That's why you can't say that "never jump" or "never have both legs off the ground".

I've read most of Bruce's material. The concepts discussed do have quite a lot to do with most sports, especially individual sports like table tennis where a personal style is very easy to distinguish and develop.

This is why context is important. If you're right on the endline and jump at the ball, is it right? If you're 3m from the table and jump at the ball, is it right? :rolleyes: You could argue that all jumping is bad: but in that case the majority of footwork would be bad, so you do kind of...

Yes, you should, based on the context. What if he tells you to violently jump at the ball when pushing it short? :rolleyes:

I've never seen Wang Liqin in such a situation in a match, so I don't know if it's set in stone if both of his feet are off the ground or not. Every video I have seen of Wang Liqin demonstrating his stroke has his feet on the ground, but that is not the same stroke as a loop kill. Why is this...

Xu Xin is currently one of the fastest side to side athletes ever, IMO only second to Ryu Seung Min who had an absolutely ideal build for footwork and was trained fanatically in it. There's just testament to what a tall player with excellent footwork can do.

Brian Pace also calls his forehand loop the perfect loop and markets it as such. Fang Bo didn't seem to care about the supposed perfect mechanics he has while he was swinging around uncoordinated. :rolleyes: So do take everything he has to say with a little salt.

Being short at around 170cm myself, I obviously don't have experience playing as a tall player. Although, playing against them, I've found that they severely lack in footwork and don't usually have the strength to hold themselves low enough all the time. So my advice is to train footwork...

Well, feeling entitled to being accepted as being right and feeling that you are indeed right are two different things. I believe in sticking with what you're absolutely sure of, lest you get swayed by other people or taken advantage of. The worst thing you can do is say sorry when you're not in...

Although dated, a lot of people could probably learn from this: If you search around you can find some gems.

Nikoli has some of the best understanding of table tennis that I've seen around here and can demonstrate it, so it's not that we're bashing him. He clearly has actual personal experience in whatever he comments in, and is of a higher level than most people here seem to be, so you can't really...