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Hello PH brothers! As my screen name suggests, I'm an oldschool penholder. I used the traditional curled fingers grip. After a 30+ years break from TT, I started playing again about 3 yrs ago. About a month ago, I have switched to play the modern PH style with RPB. My hand/wrist was used to...

Si-hing, Funny comment from coach friend ... I didn't know i was on video ... i have another clip and he says to "Mommy" who is taking video and he points at her, she is also learning RPB, "you should try for this type of hit", then he added "it's almost as good as Wang Hao's/ Wong Ho's" ...

LOL at "too much praise" - all deserved! I got old man memory, i don't recall your secret weapon LOL Met Kenny when he visited Lost Battalion one night a few months ago via a mutual friend "Mommy". I was on a table mainly blocking for friends, then 1 coach came by and I blocked for him. Kenny...

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Thank you suds! I'm just giving back to the forum. I'm in NYC and generally on the weekends, I can't make it out due to laundry, groceries, etc. Fortunate I was able to get them early enough to get on both days of the weekend. I really am hating myself, hate is a very strong word, I was only...

Copied and pasted from the Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat thread: Oh My Guoyuehua! I met forum member songdavid98 when I went to meet up with 42andbackpains this past Saturday night. Originally I was to go meet up with 42&bp last Thursday, but I couldn't make it. I hit with 42&bp for about an...

Oh My Guoyuehua! I met forum member songdavid98 when I went to meet up with 42andbackpains this past Saturday night. Originally I was to go meet up with 42&bp last Thursday, but I couldn't make it. I hit with 42&bp for about an hour. He had to leave. I then hit with songdavid98. They both were...

Si-hing, I am not a PH chopper as you know, although my strokes are so bad, I'm not even a PH attacker LOL IMO, RPB chopping > TPB BH chopping because you have extra reach with RPB but it takes some getting used to. A friend at my regular club actually has good serves and good FH loop, but...

Congratulations on 400 pages Boogar! Hope RL resolves itself and you can get motivated for TT again. Good luck and have fun tomorrow and Sunday!!

All the best laid plans of mice and men ... had to go with Jr last night to buy something for his school project. Neighborhood stores didn't have it, needed to drive to a Staples. It was too late to go hook up with 42andbackpains by the time I got back.

Last night I went to my new club and hit with a 2200 PH. His FH is over the table, meet the ball earlier and 70% hit/30% spin. He was structurally faster than me as I wait for the ball to be near the end of the table and hit a little above my hip. When we hit BH to BH, i tried out my RPB against...

Last night, i went to my new club. I hit with a friend who switched from PH to SH and starting from square one. He has 3 different people coaching him. I blocked for him last night - both FH block and standing on FH side and using TPB as I'm not steady with RPB blocking/punch, and I wanted him...

I chalked it up to him probably young. I was being polite/gentle in my replies LOL

i am sad i couldn't rearrange schedule to check him out when he was in NYC at Robert Chen's club :( suds, you gotta go!!!!!!!!

Very cool Der, Thank you! Thinking back, generally grip is relaxed, but on serves I think are heavy spin I may tense up Thank you!!

I will add one more comment: Do you know the 3 types of opponents (can be 4 actually) you need to improve? 1) Those better than you - almost everyone mentioned this. Generally you will not be able to beat them. See how they win their points. Relax and be worry free, as they are higher-level...

All the previous advice is spot on. I would like to add: 1) Ask the developing players that you are partnered with that want to kill every shot and play games if they could be cooperative and practice instead. 2) Who is the 'bad' coach doing multi-ball with? Slightly higher level students...

Looks like Jeff is hitting slightly later in Carl's video and YangYang in monster's video seems to meet the ball earlier. Is my old man eyes correct?

When i wait for my turn on a table, i usually shadow stroke be it the FH flat hit & short stroke loop, RPB stroke & loop. I also shadow pendulum serves and twiddle despite not currently using a twiddling setup. As i have a new setup, from your posts yesterday, you reminded me of the simple...

I don't know if the insight helped, as i'm still kind of finding my way back to the game as the rules/techniques/technology changed from my 21/5 & 38mm celluloid ball era. You know the more a person denies something, it means ... :)