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I completely agree with all of this.

To the OP. The blade is too fast and you are addicted to free power. You need to play with a slower blade. It will feel like crap at first until you get better at generating your own power. You need to play through that and stick with it. It doesn't need to be super slow, but it shouldn't...

If you lose you are just as good a person as when you win and nobody cares except you. That is a good thing to keep in mind. Of course you care, that is not to be entirely ignored. Just know that if you stick to it, this phase will pass. Certainly your hands won't shake so much that you...

More competition is the only answer. Just like your forehand, you have to practice it. In time you get less nervous.

Your blade is too fast

Yep. His long serves are especially nasty because when he is practicing a lot he can consistently get them on or very close to the white line and he doesn't have a "tell" that lets you know it is coming.

I have faced serves of pro players (more often former pros than current pros, but at least once a guy in the world top 100 at the time). They put a wide range of spins on the ball. The same ones we use. The difference is not the total amount or direction of spin (or not just that, since...

I for one would not be surprised if someone at Michigan State serves time in jail given what happened at Penn State. The more that comes out it seems like the culpability of people there was pretty egregious.

In cycling of all sorts everyone knows that certain PEDs will make you better, especially EPO, glucocorticoids, and, to a lesser extent, testosterone. This is true for distance runners and other endurance athletes like swimmers where delivering oxygen to tissues is the key thing (also quicker...

And yet in spite of your apparent hysteria there is no evidence that doping with PEDs is a pervasive problem in table tennis in the last twenty years. This is in marked contrast to quite a few other sports. If you know of facts that prove otherwise then present them. If they stand up to...

All this is true. Here are a few things I know. Ovtcharov and LGL were found to have clenbuterol in tests, a banned anto-asthma drug, that causes increased muscle response to exercise (but not increased strength). In China and Mexico it is possible to be exposed to those amounts by simply...

Athletes shouldn't have to risk their long term health with drugs to remain competitive. That is why anti-doping efforts are needed. That was where pro cycling found itself at a point. If you didn't dope you had no chance. People died from it. TT is a very different sport. Still, Carl...

In 1980s-90s doping was not just allowed by Chinese government, it was organized and mandated by the government, as with Russia much more recently.

That swing was there when he was skinny. But your larger point is probably right. The 2017 ITTF Handbook describes their compiance with the most stringent WADA rules, including there use of the Biological Passport system. So TT dopers trying to use EPO (probably none since no use in our...

True Carl. But testosterone is too easy to detect now. Mainly the testosterone gave Bonds more stength so a few more balls went over the fence instead of being caught at the warning track for an out. Would they allow a TT player to do multiball longer? Maybe. Thevthing is, though, MLB...

My guess is that doping is less prevalent but not non-existent in TT. By the way, I have a Ph.D. in pharmacology and my other sport isvroad cycling so I follow this closely, and also teach some lectures on this topic at a university. Road cycling is an endurance sport with all sorts of...

I should add that the dumbest thing of all was sneaking in another increase in ball size in the name of "an impending world-wide ban on celluloid production". If they had kept the ball the same size, instead of effectively increasing it by nearly a mm, the game would not have changed anywhere...

Fortunately this too shall pass. Of all the dumb things ITTF has done, I think the way they handled this change was the dumbest. I never believed it was necessary or done for honest reasons, but they should have decided on a single decent standard before rushing it out.

Yep. It's about all you can do. And time will eventually cure this. Still, I have to mention that back about four years ago when this was all starting out, I noticed that compared to people in North America, European posters at various forums were on average far more set on the idea that they...

I can't imagine having to switch back and forth from celluloid to any 40+. It will make it so you can't play with either one. There is just no good way to do it. I have no advice to offer the OP except my condolences. It's been four years since 2014! German clubs that persist with this...