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You missed the biggest requirement, which is to be willing to share with Carl and the forum video of your play. This is actually more important in many cases than the other two requirements because what you find very quickly are lots of people who are willing to say lots of insightful things...

What does prefer the forehand mean? How would you quantity it in shot selection? How would you argue that Fan or Lin rely on their backhand too much? Does Hugo rely on his backhand too much? How did Fan stop relying on his backhand too much? Do you agree that being backhand oriented cost...

Or Europe was weaker than ever. It goes both ways. The thing is that it is easy after the fact to talk about weak forehand and strong backhand. But there are no backhand orientef players at the top everyone plays with balance.

Dima struggled to beat Chinese players in his prime compared to Saive in his prime. That is what i am trying to say. Dima's world cup has no Chinese wins. His Olympics bronzes have no Chinese wins. He has no WTTC singles medals. That is all I am saying. Dima is a great player - I am just...

None of the grand slam winners other than maybe Waldner and Liu Gupliang had bad/weak backhands. The point being made by Zhang Jike is very trite, it is the classical understanding of table tennis, most footwork is built to introduce the forehand. In Nigeria, almost none of the national team...

Please speak more plainly. You are saying I am wrong to disagree with the shade that Zhang Jike is throwing at Lin Shidong and that Lin lost to Hugo Calderano because Lin is too backhand oriented and if he were more forehand oriented, he would have beaten Hugo? Let's remember that WLQ once...

Nah, you are mixing this up. Saive was a beast in the Golde Era of Europe. Dima mostly won stuff when someone else beat the Chinese or the Chinese were injured. He almost never won anything big by eliminating them himself. The point is not that Saive was some juggernaut but that his wra was...

He got a silver in 1993. TtFrenzy is closer to the truth than you are. Europe was really tough in the 90s. Wven great players like Korbel, Primorac and Rosskopf were easy to overlook.

Hugo is now world #3 and Liang #5. This throws a major spanner into CNT operations if there is no separation by association at WTTC.

Watch MLTT when Wei Wang played Jeet Chandra.

Video of the last 6 minutes of a session that show what I am working towards on the forehand side in terms of making it more compact. Still have to work on moving the legs better and most importantly on shortening the backhand when I transition to it.

Practice making the ball rotate. There is probably a penhold version of this somewhere:

He is kinda throwing shade at LSD.

You posted your time playing else where but if you have been playing less than a year you are okay, but sometimes it is not about time but about whether you are getting the right instruction. You only know how good someone is playing from when they play matches. Practice strokes tell you...

This is so not true, especially about WCQ and to a lesser extent about LSD. Even Liang Jingkun pivots, and Liang is probably the most backhand oriented player on the CNT after LSD. But I have seen Wang Chuqin run from the forehand side to the backhand side to play a pivot forehand on a loose...

Lefty vs righty, the wide forehand becomes everyone's weakness. Nothing special there. The thing is his style relies a lot on your inability to deal with his high quality low trajectory topspin so it is high risk high reward and not so much high consistency. But a style is a style, it is like...

He is not on to anything, this is how many players develop. Even Kreanga will tell you that backhand sets up the point, forehand to finish the point. The question is how does that explain the result of this past weekend? Who are the players who do not train forehand? Is Zhang Jike going to...

Exactly. Harimoto fits the description as well but the same thing, everyone is working on their game and no one has a weak forehand at that level. Everyone does 3 point forehand drills. And if he is saying Lin Shidong, is he really saying Lin lost to Hugo because he didn't play enough...

If you play table tennis, most of the footwork and athleticism drills are used to setup the forehand (for good reason but every player is different). But one of the reasons Hugo is different (and you can see it in even the final point of the match vs WCQ) is that his backhand strike zone and...

I don't know about that either to be honest. Everyone is allowed to lose and learn and sometimes you just have to accept the other guy played well and maybe you can change a few things next time. But his rallying ability is not bad just because he had close matches with Duda and Calderano...