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My backhand is "kaitai" all the way, and a lot of top backhands especially in away from the table rallies (FZD, Calderano, Franziska, Pitchford, Lin, LYJ) are largely "Kaitai". I have never been able to seriously understand Ko as a default technique (Harimoto, Liang, arguably Ma Long and...

This series has been fire! Coach Meng for President!

The humidity though...

So I have been enjoying my play recently, my new setup has been playing well, I am convinced I prefer orange sponge Skyline 3 to Blue sponge Skyline 3, while I still want to try D80, D05 has been good for me. The EJ in me wants to test Skyline 3 and D05 on the Cybershape since I like that...

I misread the post originally and didn't realize until reading later conversations that you lost the 5th set. I watched the match and it was pretty nice. On the weaker player thing: while I (and I am sure everyone here) loves counterlooping points, it is very important to appreciate winning...

When I make these posts/comments, the intended audience know themselves. ;)

One last video on developing quality in practice - hear it from an upcoming pro so that no one will say it is just what NL said. The one thing I somewhat have a different take from him is that you can also learn a lot of this quality with really spinny serving. But I did learn some of it from...

Conspiracy theories captured in Youtube shorts as usual...

You are a stronger player than most of us here, it would be interesting to see what your issues are on video. I think the fast arc series are decent, they have hard topsheet but C1 has soft sponge. I don't know whether it will solve your problem if you don't like Rozena though as their...

There are lots of skills/drills with general applicability and to be honest, even a well trained technically adequate forehand topspin can be user to return serves, hit cross court, down the line or into the middle and sometimes counter of the bounce with touch. My main point is that working on...

So general drills or the theory underlying general drills can be used to fix or enhance specific problems. So for example, let's say you want to play forehand after serving. Maybe the footwork for pivoting might ne helpful and worth drilling as part of a third ball movement. Or you might fo...

When a team has a budget that allows it to build Ira own replica of the playing hall and get tournament balls in advance for private practice and fly out a boat load of training partners, you know it is playing a different game from everyone else.

Yes but I would separate the drills you do for fitness from the drills you do to win points and improve in matches. They don't really translate and one of the common causes of TT frustration comes from players who add up all their training hours thinking they do instead of focusing either on...

I agree with a lot of this. When learning with a faster blade, most of the practical drilling should be focused on range training to develop a lot of feeling. Drills that test your ability to play different quality shots with the.balde should be a huge part of your training. Because the lack...

Since I try to help adult learners play reasonably efficient table tennis based on the struggles I had as a learner, for those who don't want to move too much, one of the things I try to teach early is how to play with your backhand and your forehand out of a similar stance which requires you to...

Rakza Z is definitely high arcing and relatively slow and hard to drive balls with. If you take a step or two back and like to spin and remain consistent, it does extremely well. If you want to loop the ball past your opponent, you are probably using the wrong rubber. But that said, I would...

Now I see that the creativity in attacking Hayata is not just a zeio skill, but a Tieba/5ch zeio quotes mindset.

We are always reminded that the JNT is not a team in the same sense that the CNT are a team. One of the primary justifications for wanting a Harimoto- Hayata pairing was the belief that Hirano gave them the best chance for two singles wins. Look how that turned out. Of course, we will get the...

You are a TT player. Have you ever lost a match quite like Hayata and Harimoto and not feel you threw it away? I am not saying Hayata did not lose the match as much as that the idea that all she had to do was keep the ball on the table and that would have changed the outcome runs counter to...

I looked at the 9-5 points all the way to the end. All that Hayata did was take risk to win points by going down the line when arguably she should have more safety going cross court. You have to believe you have earned the right to do this. Also, her play against SYS and SYB in singles was...