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I don't mind it either way, as long as the coach has a serious plan for whoever they are teaching. It is when the coach doesn't that this causes massive problems.

Yah, such videos when they are not well subtitled can be hard to explain though I can guess the intent. Table tennis is a complicated sport. My trying to explain what I think in terms of that video would be a complete disservice. For me, I just think in terms of swing planes and paths. I...

The biggest problem is the players have not taken the cultural responsibility to make serving obviously legal and the umpires are largely volunteers not professionals. The complexity of the rules leads to many pros serving illegally in one aspect or the other. The pendulum serve often leads to...

I think it helps a lot if you can play the loop without wrist action. If your swing trajectory works without wrist, the wrist is just extra quality and insurance over the same window and largely in the same direction as the swing without wrist action. Wrist action is largely waving the...

Yeah but look at the number of referees they often have in other sports. Table Tennis is too complicated for the puny resources we put into enforcing the rules.

I would encourage you to follow channels on YouTube like Squat University and Knees OverToesGuy and embrace what is possible if you do exercises that combine resistance training and stretching to build your physical strength. A lot of these things improve if you do things to get stronger. No...

Not at all, happy something helped, internet advice can be a crapshoot when it comes to improving someone's actual play, moreso in the absence of visual feedback. Good luck with your playing, the sport can be really hard!

Part of the problem with serve calls is that a protesting player can bring embarrassment to the sport over inconsistent officiating. What Hawkeye on serve faults does is take the call out of the subjective realm. In the match I watched where it was used, when the umpire called the fault, the...

Playing/training since you were a kid doesn't make you optimally trained or exposed. And while it is harder to improve or learn new tricks at an older age, some of that is context‐dependent. Working with a better coach or being in a better training environment can raise your level at any age...

Ayhika can still be improving, it is the young well trained players that hit their peak years ago. Those who get exposed to new patterns later may still find new highs and have random unbeatable days. Do you do physical therapy and exercises for your strength and joints in general?

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The World Cup gives China a chance to firm its rankings for its Olympic selections. Thankfully, this sounds like a very different event from the old one, though I kinda liked the old one because it gave the minnows a chance to mix with the whales and sharks.

Nah. I think WCQ will actually accelerate the desires, and it might actually be used against him in 2028 lol so Felix can win. Ma Long just became too big and clean to be stained.

They were zero before this. Well, unless somehow all the other team members suffer incredible mishaps. They would likely send CXT before her at this rate.

It will be interesting if service review is utilized. I have often said tongue-in-cheek that Hawkeye for service review would never be adopted until Ma Long retired lol.

35 is pretty old to be on CNT, he has tried.

You want to stay relaxed and avoid rushing against opponents who play faster than you (usually, the main advantage of better players is not just their quality but their ability to read the game much faster on serve and return and rally)- in other words, you want to remain unstressed by stressful...

Awesome, glad to hear it worked, describing something over the internet doesn't always. Practicing against pips players, especially those who can sometimes twiddle to inverted, is the best way to get practice against spin variation. I find that if whenever I get practice against a decent pips...

This is normal. The biggest issue is pretending it isn't and then not realizing it is a natural consequence of hitting your limits. In other words does it happen when you play any opponent or does it happen against players who are good enough to cause you problems with their pace of play? If...

In terms of how best to learn, as kindof99 said, you can make good arguments for learning a full smash/windmill loop first and for learning just basic counterhit/forearm snap stroke to start with. I try to give the illusion, which I currently use when I play, that you just learn two or three...