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To be honest the limits of human information are not always known and I won't be surprised if top players pick up cues that make the extra information cool. But maybe not... but for helping amateurs, it doesn't work through way they imagine it will. Other than in the case of no spin...

Which ultimately amount to the same thing - the size of the ball, the speed of the ball and the small distances the ball usually travels over make such marks invisible on all but balls that slow down enough to float.

It will mostly help with slow float. At a certain speed, lines become invisible. Since slow float serves are my favorite weapon, I am not a fan lol.

What players at your level of experience consider power is too difficult to produce consistently against balls with decent quality. What you want first is reproducible and good technique that you can master with repetition and control against many different kinds of balls. Then you can produce...

I started as an adult too and I completely disagree with tbja approach. There are no shortcuts. If you can read spin and have fast hands, you can do just about anything you want to a serve. If you can't read spin, no shortcuts will save you. It's always best to just take your strokes, find a...

You are going to need high speed cameras to make this work.

Sometimes, you have to not know things to do things. But he is 70 in addition to any other issues. So I mostly feed him the ball unless he moves me around too much.

It's funny that Falck is playing qualifiers. It's amazing to see Lilian Bardet beaten so comprehensively in qualifiers.

Did you ever hear the story that Wang Hao was supposed to play the first match in the 2010 WTTTC final but didn't? In any case i don't find the distinction in performance you are arguing for statistically significant though you are right that Ma Long did play them more in the later stages of...

Can you cite the statistics you are using to argue that WH had a better head-2-head vs Boll/Samsonov than Ma Long? I'm not disputing Wang Hao's play by the way. I am just arguing that he was more backhand oriented than most players at his time and that he had tremendous success playing that...

I fall into every "trap", TT is fun.

Oh, you are so full of it. You mean that everyone here doesn't know who Zhang Jike is? Or you mean the reason why we are discussing his statements is because we don't know who he is? No one who disagreed with hin said that the forehand focused table tennis is not athletic. The points that...

Haha of course no one said that. They just felt that way and supported their arguments with Xu Xin and Joo Se Hyuk (examples that didn't work at all).

So this sounds more like what I was saying. More nuance. It is just funny how some think you are only allowed to agree with everything a good player says lol. LSD comments start about 3.5mins in.

My point is that you are discussing him at different points in his career as if he never evolved. I am just saying that people shouldn't give ZJK's claim some privileged insight. Wang Hao also used his backhand much more often than other players - maybe that is why he lost to Ryu in the...

Wang Hao at 19? Or Wang Hao at 27? And in matches what did Wang Hao select in rallies and on serve return? The game has gotten faster in some ways though the balls were supposed to make it slower.

Yeah but where are the players with stronger forehand and footwork than Lin Shidong on the national team? Why is a 19 year old outplaying his supposedly forehand oriented peers? It is better to say the kid is 19 and still has gaps that need to be closed than to pretend that his game is...

Of course no one is "qualified" ‐ I think the problem is you haven't spoken to high level coaches and players about these things. If you have spoken to them enough, you will learn that with their qualifications, they often disagree with each other and make mistakes as well. It is when you have...

Would be interesting to see video of these players especially if they play inverted on both sides.

Only in the first round though. Still high risk for CNT collisions depending on seeding.