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It's a technical and timing adjustment with a focus on spin that you need to practice, but which you have not shown much interest in making when it was discussed prior. Those are pretty tough smashes so if you can make them consistently against quality balls, keep doing them. But if you want...

You are young it is best to change when you are young and get something you can use for a very long time. So yes, I would say go faster earlier, because the feeling needs to be adjusted to and you will be able to maximize the benefits with training.

The more I think about it, maybe someone who cares for Ito convinced her to play using that argument and rather than realize the person was trying to be kind to her, she actually believed their logic.

She needs to find a reason to remain delusional. Lack of tact can ruin anyone.

I don't know the number of subscribers he has, but many people have full time jobs on youtube with around 50k subscribers. And there are even top chess players who make much more money streaming chess and chatting with fans than playing at the top 10 level. Niche sports are just hard to make...

It's the new world, you can get more money as a TT influencer than as a TT professional.

There might be a rule tying ranking to some prior result in a prior event.

It is all about being able to rotate the lower body with minor lunges to the right to power the forehand, and mild squats/lunges to power the backhand. Your stance shouldn't really matter. The problem is having a healthy enough lower body to avoid injury. The flexibility of the heels plays a...

No flying insects on the down low? 🤔

The Japanese Olympic TT teams are: Women : Hayata, Hirano, Harimoto Men: Harimoto, Togami, Shinozuka XD: Harimoto, Hayata Two of your team members have to be in the singles event barring injury substitutions. The XD team can be any man or woman from the the teams. So more likely than not...

The Hungarians are mercurial and experienced and Togami and Shinozuka have time to figure it out. Let's remember that Mizutani and Niwa got it done in the end vs the Koreans no less. If they can do it, Togami and Shinozuka have hope.

That's the team event - it's not MD or WD. IT's still there. But the Japanese can field any combination of players in the doubles match.

Only XD is an Olympic event. And that is Harimoto/Hayata.

Because he is under 2750? or because the gap between him and the next player is smaller than the gap between Magnus and the next best player? Magnus achieved that rating in 2014 by the way.

IT is actually the better way to go if they can make it work, the problem is trusting the people who are doing this. They really do need to commercialize the sport, it is hard for us to complain when they make attempts.

Hmm.... how do you know it isn't modified flying insect equipment? :unsure:

I'm the wrong person to ask, when I was your rating, I was largely a blocker, admittedly with the 40mm ball. Footwork was a bit of a luxury. Right now I am an old man who can't play an event without feeling like he needs new knees. The kids just block me to the left and to the right and I am...

Happy Lily could take it all, and Cho was just building his ego for future events. Ranfeur is a bit older already (late 20s), and with the Swedish logjam on the top team, it is unlikely he will ever get major burn. But crazier things have happened. I believe the current men's team is Truls...

Bajor sometimes plays like the best women's player in Europe, and then sometimes plays like a very good player - I think as you pointed out, it is probably something about the backhand rally and whether you can use tactics to constrain her. It was probably a case of strength against strength...

This has to be one of the smartest statements period in TT when it comes to playing pips players, I find too many players who want to hit the ball hard against a pips player before taking their time to figure out what is on it, and how to get the ball they can put away.