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  1. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    These things, unless the adhesion to the blade is poor, do not affect play as much as the feelings over how they look might lead you to believe. That said, do whatever you find reasonable, you always learn something when it comes to equipment from working with it yourself. I have played good...
  2. Xu Xin is back, so is his behind back shot

    Is it just me or is this rpb23 account just an Emrathich amplifier?
  3. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    It often comes with experiences like the one you had, it might take a few more. But it is good to have it as a goal and get there in the end.
  4. ETTU European Championships 2024

    Watching the highlights, it was like can't you see that all she is doing is borrowing your power and you have to be a bit more strategic with your first placement to make her move?
  5. ETTU European Championships 2024

    Top French junior (now 20), played behind Felix on the junior team for a while. France has a very deep pipeline of juniors. Poret has been playing mostly feeders but if you look deep enough you see him in a few Contenders (I think he made it to Lagos or Tunisia or both?) I suspect Gauzy will...
  6. This why I don't complain illegal serves

    Usually in serious sports, umpires at every level are trained, validated and reviewed. Most of the people who commented on this match on YouTube cannot see the consistency in the refs approach to both players serves. Of course, you are free to find the people who have claimed this umpire as...
  7. ETTU European Championships 2024

    Redminzki and the Polish juniors around him (Kulczycki, Kubik) should really be dominating Europe a bit more by now with Dyjas as stabilizing vet. They should at least replace Portugal while staying a bit behind France. Should definitely be at least tied with Denmark and ahead of Slovenia in...
  8. Benyamin Faraji 14 years old.

    You seriously believe that a 14 year old boy who plays on the national team is dealing with media for the first time after beating Wang Chuqin?
  9. ETTU European Championships 2024

    Tough match to watch.
  10. ETTU European Championships 2024

    It's a good question and I don't know the answer - I do remember that the last team tournament in Sweden and also the last European Games (not sure where those were) had some of the best production values I had ever seen for TT - maybe it is a different team producing it this time in Austria...
  11. ETTU European Championships 2024

    Some insane first round matches - Jorgic was on the brink but made a furious comeback in game 6. My favorite performance comes from this German who clearly had to pass internal trials lol:
  12. Benyamin Faraji 14 years old.

    Well you never answered the question, are the Taiwanese players who beat him 14 years old? You gave evidence, you moved to different evidence without closing out your original evidence. sounds to me like you are just trying to justify an already accepted conclusion. Kind of like saying Hugo...
  13. Benyamin Faraji 14 years old.

    He can lose to Taiwanese juniors, Harimoto struggled to win some internal tournaments, what did it say about his overall level? Were those juniors 14 year old? Why is he top ranked for his age if so? Looking at data is nothing without interpretation. Alexis was playing 2nd league in France...
  14. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    95% of looping half long serves is forearm work, so if you are able to trust your use of the forearm and wrist to pick up the ball, anything is loopable. I must have shared this video before, there are others, but the forearm work is key. Getting into position helps but if you have have the...
  15. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    So the funny thing (and @haggisv can confirm) is that Heming and I share a TT coach and mentor. So a lot of Heming's stuff, I am conceptually familiar with, though I play at a much lower level. I don't always agree with all of it, but that doesn't make me right, but the good stuff, I stole...
  16. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    I found the quote in the backdrop interesting:
  17. Any tips on how to consistently looping backspin?

    For Question #2, the reason you are not giving the ball topspin is that you are not coming over the top of the ball with your stroke. You don't need too catch and probably shouldn't catch a backspin ball at the top unless the ball is really high, but if you want to give a ball topspin...
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