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Welcome back penholder brother Liten! Congratulations on the future penholder!! I have slowly adapted to the weight of 2 inverted sheets and started learning/playing RPB. Sometimes my fingers ache. I don't have a scale to weigh my setup but 187g!?!?!?!? WOW!! Good luck Liten with the setup...

:eek: and imma over here looking at being consistent 1600 LOLOL

Congratulations Der on surviving another Goon Squad mission and also congratulations to the rest of the Goon Squad! I'm using Vega Pro on my BH and like it a lot. :( Did you wave bye and kiss your biceps? Enquiring minds want to know! In any competitive endeavor where there is a 'winner'...

Some comments about last night: 1. Hot and humid in NYC/my club. Felt out of it even after hyrdrating myself. Not sure if the heat/humidity affected the ball/table/rubbers and/or me. 2. My serves were 60% successful. Had 3. My RPB was 60-70% successful. Had a few RPB loop down the line...

NYC temperatures starting to be in the 80's-90's Fahrenheit. Last night, I had no game ... perhaps the heat and/or humidity affected me/ball/table/rubbers. Probably it was mostly me ... lost steam along the way ... played 3 matches. 1. Vs my friend who came back from vacation, first time back...

I don't have official word that the blade I used to use was made by Kevin at American Hinoki, but I believe it was his WRC 9mm CPen. I won it in one of member NextLevel's contests and I used it for ~6 months ... used it to self-learn shakehand backhand so that i can learn RPB. The blade was...

Anytime and I don't understand Korean/Japanese either LOL hmmm.... 2nd vid posted was to start at 3 footwork drills ... will edit

Ryu Seung Min's footwork Ryu Seung Min is generally said to have great footwork... was surfing around and came across his instructional "Ryu Seung Min DVD Training": Specifically: EDIT: my 2nd posted video was to start at 25m53s where I saw 3 footwork drills...

Good luck shinshiro! Sorry, I know nothing about JPen blades.

Continuing with my transition from an oldschool penholder to the modern penholder style... Last night, practiced a little over an hour with a friend who is a coach. Trying to learn the RPB strokes ... focusing on the RPB punch for now. My friend advised me to focus on the punch instead of RPB...

When I see partners too close to the table, I will serve rocket serves to 'jam' them and wait for the usual weak return to attack. If they adjust and take a step or 2 back, then I serve short to get them back in a little :)

Sir, You lacked sleep from nerves the night before for the mini-tourney? That's awesome to hear Sir! I struggle with tenseness also... easy to say, hard to do: breathe, be in the moment, listen to music, sing/hum to yourself, visualization, etc. You heard and know all of this already. Just...

Welcome Tian to TTD as well as this thread!

suds, that's awesome! part of a winner's mindset is to adapt and flexible ... responsive to the conditions and not force the matter with their preferred methods. congratulations! *sigh* in truly embracing RPB ... i think i cannot TPB punch/block anymore - last few times, balls flew off the...

Oh wow! Yeah he was truly a gentleman - overcame some challenges to become a great success story. http://www.jhoonrhee.com/

As always, you are truly a TT Ambassador! LOL you and the rest of the Goon Squad would've dispatched me even before I get within 10 miles of you! In related but unrelated news, I'm guessing you heard of Jhoon Rhee and his passing on 4/30 ... generally known as the Father of Taekwondo in the...

Thank you Der... i hope my post didn't come across as I'm disappointed in the slow progress. On the contrary, I'm enjoying my journey in relearning the game and viewing it as a work in progress. Although I learnt TT as a teen, either i didn't learn properly or trained properly, and/or the 32...

Went to TT last night. Didn't hit/play well. A few factors contributed to poor performance with the biggest factor being hitting on a table with a white wall behind. I have trouble picking up the ball visually. I wear glasses but I don't while I play. I have been hesitant to wear glasses as I...

Thank you Ranger-man for your gracious compliments! I don't know if i can call my RPB journey great progress or not at this point in time. I posted a video of my RPB flat hit before. Last night was a tad better than that video. Alas no video of last night. Perhaps the key to my RPB flat hit is...

Last night, hit with my friend who is a coach. He has repeatedly mentioned to me aspects of my strokes to tweak. As I'm new to RPB and after a 30+ yrs break from the game, one of the aspects I need to work on the most for any stroke is my timing and when to hit the ball. As I'm working on...