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Hmmmm I am not sure it was really overconfidence as opposed to just not being used the style of play. Ma Long despite winning 4-0 against Skachov in the swedish open, still showed some definite unease in dealing with his backhand. The same applied to his match against Tokic. The Chinese players...

Yeah, WLQ was number 1 for 25 weeks consecutive. But Carl I think exaggerated a little when he said he went a year without losing a match. The world cup happens every year, and amazingly WLQ still hasn't won a title there. So he would have at least had to have lost a match once in a year. But...

Really? I didn't bother to check. That is pretty sick.... I mean in tennis where each set can be grueling, its much easier to see someone not losing a single set to win the tourney, but in table tennis, its a lot harder to do. Pretty impressive Ma Long did that, especially blanking Wang Hao at...

thanks to blahness also for putting the time and effort to collect all these resources to make this thread. Some of these videos are awesome. I haven't even see half of them, which is saying something considering the time I waste on youtube watching and learning from table tennis videos.

My reverse pendulum top spin or no spin serve is decent, and sometimes when I get get it very short, its very good. But I can not for the life of me do a reverse pendulum, that has even close to the amount of backspin that my normal pendulum serve gets. Its really frustrating, so additional tips...

There seems to be a lot of really interesting talent from France and Russia. They seem to be very distinct from the more normal european styles exhibited by germans, swedes, and english. Just from my impression they seem to have a collection of players who often randomly cause problems for...

yeah it is definitely an interesting question to consider. Just how good some of the non-Chinese players would be if they had the chance to receive Chinese level training from the start. Boll in particular actually was quite incredible in terms of how good he was when he initially appeared. He...

haha, I am glad to see so many people routing for WLQ. It would be awesome to see him somehow win, though it will be hard for him to beat Wang Hao, and if he does, even harder for him to beat Ma Long. There was a time when he always beat Wang Hao, but that was pre-2007. But, I am still very...

Yeah, the easiest reason and probably the right reason for this distinction is the fact that while most Chinese players definitely favor their forehands, and look for all opportunities to go around to their forehand, ZJK shows a definite preference for his backhand. It makes sense to keep a...

Honestly, I think Ma Lin's window closed before the last world championships. He would have to have a very very lucky draw in order to have a chance. I really wouldn't be surprised if Ma Lin starts to take a landslide in terms of performance. I don't think he has any real motivation left, he has...

Yeah, I definitely agree with you. WLQ is my all time favorite player. I am not sure if its a matter of how much stamina he can muster though, he has always kept himself in really good shape, and probably still is the most athletically fit on the Chinese team. The longer a match goes, the bigger...

Yeah, the judge who basically started this type of decisions, is now getting trashed like crazy, so I hope something good comes out of this.

Hmm that is interesting. As for the part about the ball change, like every rule in the past, Chinese players put more effort and more time to master the new changes, and therefore I doubt there will be that much change, in terms of rankings or anything. If the physics of the game change slightly...

yeah I would say fluidity is one of the largest differences between their game. No one is more fluid, with better transition between backhand and forehand than Ma Long. His whole game revolves around that, and as the world's best counter looper, he just has so much experience dealing with mid...

Yeah, this is super disturbing, especially since I am Chinese. I hate to say it, but along with the amazing growth that has occurred in China, there has come a lot of horrible societal problems. This is what happens when a country becomes over obsessed with capitalism and greed. The reason why...

Hmmmm I think Ma Long has pretty much always had a mental advantage against ZJK. If you watch the video ZJK reportage, on youtube, ZJK basically says straight out, Ma Long is a horrible match up for him, with him losing like more than 75% of the time to Ma Long when they play each other. There...

Hmm Ding Ning, seems like the future of women table tennis.... so in terms of playing someone good, I would like to play against her. But if we are just using this as an open ended question, then screw playing someone good, I would like to play Kristin Kreuk, regardless of whether she can play...

Hey guys, so I just got some Neo Hurricane 3 and tenergy 64 rubber, I purposely copied the setup of that ZJK uses and what Ma Long used to use haha, that way I can't complain about whether my rubber is good or not. But I need some advice on what glue to use. I probably would need to get it...

Yeah the leg strength of many of the Chinese players are out of this world. In particular I still remember one particular point during the world team championships with China vs Germany, and Wang Liqin was playing Boll, and in one particular point, Boll and WLQ back 15 feet from the table, and...

In terms of service returns, just a very beginner piece of advice is to really pay attention to how and where the opponent hits the ball. This gets a lot harder when more professional players move their wrists really quickly and give different fakes, but if we are just talking beginner stuff...