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The "overrated" Wong Chun Ting, hmm ... ; )

@FZD is currently playing Infinity or ALC just with the Infinity's handle? What was the blade he switched to? I mean T05 for bh is fine. When it starts to be problematic for me, is T05 on the fh in general. The throw angle is too high for the fh (imho), and it hinders the physicality of the stroke.

Too bad, Simon had a chance ... Yep .. the rubber, technique and more athletic, so what is left: Enigmatic feeling, JO like blocking, placement ... don't seem to be much enough.

Oldest or not, I think before Tokyo every member on the Japan team must feel pressure. What draw my attention was how firm her strokes were against WY. She was able to consistently play those high spiny shots before preparing for the big hit, and then follow on strong attacks. I have never seen...

Just switched from TB ALC to Primorac JP with fast rubbers like mx-s. Love it so far. So much space for stroke development and creativity.

Great success for Kasumi and I-Ching : ) Chinese girls eliminated before SF, quite rare. Still one have to keep in mind, it was like a second team of CNT's. No DN, LSW, CM, ZY, WM ... Anyway great success for them!

Bring it on Zeio! : ) I myself consider no other goal in tt, than beating the top players, which happen to be Chinese these days.

Yep ... it must be the Nittaku connection, since Ishikawa is using blue sponge too ... @Hah .. it shows the bs are not too hard to play with, and players outside of China are capable of adopting to it.

It just shows European style does not know yet, how to counter it efficiently. I fear, they don't practice enough against the "Chinese rubbers" and the euro/jap style needs to become more athletic imho.

Mizutani. What counts is the stage you qualified to.

Dyjas - Xu Xin 1:1 So far so good ... : )

Hey, what will be the score? Kuba vs XX? Me 4:2 to Kuba ; )

Go Kuba GO!!! : )

Realistically speaking, forgive me Brendt, maybe I'm naive, but ITTF is just a little organization compared to big politics and business. What do you want them to do? There are bigger organizations and Tropical's pictures are about gymnastics, tracks ...

Hmm ... the pictures speak for themselves. Zhang Yining said once she wouldn't want her daughter to become an athlete, because of the hard training. I guess she knew what she was talking about. @Ironic ... we started playing recreational tt in our club, but because of some scam going on, we...

Ok ... now we are really derailed. Brendt ... I just searched the title of the article on google and it was the first result. If you have posted just a link with your commentary ... ? The issue is utmost important, but I think the thread is unrecoverable ...

Ha ha .. no no it's just tt, and every wise advise is more than welcome. Showing our weakness is not the same as finding a cure. Just for the sake of an interesting topic, which went sideways for a moment. Besides, I guess we are not talking a top secret staff here ... ; )

OK ... we are officially derailed. Great ... Zeio, since we have your attention. I remember your post about about how European tt got stuck in the 80'ties. We already touched a little about the weakness of the European style, what could such a body of EU coaches, introduce into the game to...

Yep ... K. Karlson is a good lefty reference too. @Och come on 2:3 and they won this SF anyway ; )

Ha ha ... thanks for being honest. So I guess the political topics are pervasive ... Let's keep this forum relatively light ... in fact I would say we tend to play tt to have some rest from the hardships of life ... don't we?