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  1. I TESTED MA LONG’S ACTUAL TABLE TENNIS BAT!

    He was obviously being comedic, but his point was that it doesn't do anything for him. Even the whole thing was more like a skit.
  2. I TESTED MA LONG’S ACTUAL TABLE TENNIS BAT!

    I dont think we are seriously disagreeing. Customization of a design of a blade for a specific player (and even rubber) can be and usually is a long back and forth process. Usually the biggest things are to get a certain speed of blade and a specific handle design with a specific...
  3. Fantastic match! US Open

    Financials are not public so no one knows how big or little the money is...
  4. Fantastic match! US Open

    But most of them are over 30 and past their prime. It is the age that matters not the playing level... Edit: did you list Wang Wei?
  5. Thoughts on Coach EmRatThich?

    I have a piece of land in Arodan I want to sell you...l
  6. Fantastic match! US Open

    A couple of things - football is a sport where you run around for 90 minutes, so age plays a huge role there vs table tennis, as aerobic capacity is significantly affected as you get older. Messi did not leave Barca for the US directly, Messi already had a stint at PSG before coming to the USA...
  7. I TESTED MA LONG’S ACTUAL TABLE TENNIS BAT!

    The quality is not in the construction per se, it is more in the selection given tolerances. Yes, after the blade is built and selected, it is easy to say "ah, this and that and this and that about the blade make it special", but no one can manufacture a blade and be very sure the blade will...
  8. Fantastic match! US Open

    The soccer analogies I will leave for another time. I have already explained what is wrong with them - as you get older, your priorities change and you need to be able to measure the playing level of the payer independent of the league which is harder in soccer but easier in table tennis. We...
  9. Harimoto: "It's presumptuous to call it a rivalry." (#1135)

    As someone going through PT right now, I read her statement very differently, sometimes the way you used to do things before is no longer accessible, but it doesn't mean the new way is worse or can't get easier or stronger with time. Let's give her time rather than posting sensationalized...
  10. Harimoto: "It's presumptuous to call it a rivalry." (#1135)

    So Hayata is using Antispin and has her pro career cut short because of bad coaching. If only she had you around, it would all be different...
  11. Thoughts on Coach EmRatThich?

    Not overlooking anything so much as saying that video was the reason this thread was resuscitated and I liked the video enough to share it. I pretty much never watch ERT stuff or share it because I consider him to be a bit of a scumbag.
  12. Fantastic match! US Open

    This is still bad logic and not what you originally argued. Are you arguing from the quality of Ronaldo's play to the quality of the Saudi league (which is the argument you made about Kou Lei) or arguing from the quality of the the Saudi league to the quality of Ronaldo's play (a different...
  13. Fantastic match! US Open

    The young players in the league are many. They just haven't become household names or are 2600 players. Ma Jinbao, Eric Jouti, Nikhil Kumar, Adi Sareen, Nandan Naresh, Sid Naresh, Daniel Tran, Darryl Tsao and there are others. The way you see the league depends on your understanding of table...
  14. Thoughts on Coach EmRatThich?

    For me, Golden Viscaria is the same thing as the use of serial codes to claim one blade plays better than another. There are no physical properties of a blade apart from the technique of the user once the blade is well built and consistent.
  15. Fantastic match! US Open

    We are back to this again. Sam Walker plays for Grenzau in Bundesliga. For MLTT: Lebesson, Monteiro, Olah, Pitchford, Provost, Nordus, Lindquist, Kim Taehyun, Ma Jinbao, Kanamitsu. Kasahara, Aida, Angles... all 2700+ players. I probably missed a few. All these players are still playing at a...
  16. Fantastic match! US Open

    Unfortunately the Texas events are out of Houston and that means a 4 hour drive if I can figure it out. I would have done one for sure if I was still in my old East Coast area. I could ask around but other people is not quite the same as you. But I would definitely attend if it was...
  17. Fantastic match! US Open

    This is where we disagree and toeach his own. You wouldn't say such nonsens about CCY. I suspect Kou Lei would still beat most of the Taiwanese national team or give them a good game if sufficiently motivated. Everyone loses, even Quadri lost to a Taiwanese nobody in one match. I am...
  18. Thoughts on Coach EmRatThich?

    You are a Golden Viscaria user so the video is especially for you. Do you find the Golden Viscaria special? I have always thought it was a bunch of nonsense.
  19. I TESTED MA LONG’S ACTUAL TABLE TENNIS BAT!

    His main advantage is that he gets to select what he likes (if he doesn't like what it does, he doesn't have to pay to change it, and they send him quite a few) while we just take what we buy. But the point is that there is nothing special about the manufacturing tolerances vs what we get...
  20. I TESTED MA LONG’S ACTUAL TABLE TENNIS BAT!

    You haven't seen Zhang Jike's latest video.
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