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The best solution if you just choose one playing style, either offensive or defensive. Both of these styles requires different footwork all together. Or another solution, which is a bit more difficult is play as an all rounder. But for this, you need proper equipment.

We used to be put into drills for this shot. Instead of the normal flick where some players have big swings that comes from way back, for this shot our coach always say timing is the key. Timing of taking the ball at the max heights with the roll of the wrist. Much of the strength of this flick...

Yup, it's true. But TT is not like tennis where it's a "full" pro kind of sport. In tennis you can choose your partner, not the nation/country that chooses your partner. So it's common to have partners from other nations. In tennis you have your own managers, own PA, own coach, own medic, own...

Now, that is a gorgeous blade. Mint condition by the looks of it, in my hands after 2 years, it'll even be difficult for me to give it away hahaha I think the grip is for a niche players only. Not everyone's cup of tea. Beautiful blade nonetheless.

Yup,:) you do get individual points, though not a lot, but it helps. There are no doubles world ranking in TT, unlike tennis where there are doubles tournaments only. Therefore you get doubles specialists in tennis. They don't play singles, just doubles all year long.

True, Ma Lin lost against much lower ranking players, but in doubles, most of the time he finished up in the finals. So, that kinda balanced it out a little for him.

Matt is never gonna let you forget about that little interview, Dan...:) You better get to it quickly, or he'll keep bringing it up whenever he has the chance, especially during your personal bantering with him.

Hehehehe Harry, in badminton the person who won the point will serve the next point. In this case, it's the opposite. Call it notnimdab instead? On a serious note, no one will be practising their serves. Coz, when you win the point you won't be serving. Players will concentrate more on...

It would be good if you can post a photo of it...

I grew up with Sriver in the 80's and through the 90s. Won many tournaments locally and abroad with it. I still think that it is very spinny, especially the softer EL, superb control on defence and provides easy placements for your shots. Before I forget, welcome to the forum. We look forward...

Signing up Xu Xin by Stiga was indeed a sly move. Business wise I think it's a cunning one. Xu Xin is young, more relaxed than other Chinese players, he's up to date, approachable and above all, still developing. He is yet to find he's natural game and when he does, Stiga will be there to reap...

I kinda like this set up actually. I would use it. Sriver EL on the BH is just excellent!

Mas Long is definitely on track. Till this moment he was unbeaten in 40 consecutive matches.

That is true Carl. He was not beaten in singles event from the year 2000-2001. Like you said, the kind of power that he generated back then was unseen and unheard of. Like you said, he beat up his opponents into submissions, including his coach now Liu Guoliang (Swedish Open 2001 QF 4-2. He went...

Chinese Olympic winners in the last 20 years of the games. SINGLES GOLD SILVER BRONZE 1992 Barcelona Waldner Gatien Taek-Soo/Ma Wenge 1996 Atlanta Guoliang Wang Tao Jorg Roskopf...

The greatest to me has to be the great Viktor Barna. But in modern table tennis era, it's wang Liqin. You guys can read about it on my thread : http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?1653-The-longest-number-1-player-maybe&highlight=longest

Aaaah, I see...if that's the case, I would suggest they grip the blade, mark out where their fingers are resting and glue the rubbers. It can't be that much off set from the norm, so I think it should be ok in terms of legality.

Hi CJ, welcome aboard. I'm not sure about the LKT blade, but I'm sure Carl will give you a full run down in comparison with TB ALC later. As what I know, the Neos of Hurricane and Skyline are rather hard, which probably resulting in longer trajectory like you said (unless you can induced a lot...

D.QUALIFICATION PATHWAY Seventy-two (72) athletes per gender will qualify as follows: 28 ITTF World Ranking, with a maximum of two (2) players per NOC 40 Continental qualification 2 Final World Qualification Event 1 Tripartite Commission Invitation place 1 Host NOC direct entry 72 Total - with a...

This is all so confusing. I managed to find some info though not a complete one. There are 72 places available in the Olympic competition and a maximum of three athletes from each nation are eligible to qualify, per gender. The top 28 eligible players on the ITTF World Ranking have...