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There is a lot that can be said here, but the disclaimer that past performance is no guarantee of future results applies here. Moreover, one of the things that is well known in table tennis amongst experienced coaches who have developed young children and why the Chinese have traditionally...

The Chinese are tough to beat. Do not underestimate the Chinese. Other than that, I agree with the thrust of your post. He is becoming a more complete mid distance player and he now has to catch up to the kids have been doing this for a few more years and stay ahead of Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng...

Both penholders have been eliminated. Amazing. So we should have tomorrow morning Moregardh vs Levrun A and Jorgic vs Freitas.

So the European top 16 Cup is on. Ettu.org for matches and results and live streams on ettu tv. What made me write this post? Alexis still exerts a psychological dominance on his younger brother lol, winning 4‐2 !against Felix, Felix who gives nightmares to just about every other player in the...

I believe the biggest reason my game has been locked is that my knees make me resist movement and therefore I am struggling to dynamically adapt my playing distance to see the game as it gets faster and players hit with more power. Hard to accept and I will continue to look for solutions but it...

It's incredible how he acts as if everything you are saying isn't fairly obvious.

He is still clearly the best non-Chinese in terms of WTTC results for the last 6 to 8 years. This is a statement of fact, not sure what you are trying to say. He is also the best Japanese player. And the kid is freaking 20. He isnt even 24 or 28 which are supposed to be your prime years.

You don't realize that even whe Harimoto was doing well, his foundation was sometimes so creaky on forehand that even the top Chinese coaches really were not afraid of of his game. He is going to suffer a lot to fix it. You will be making these posts for a long time. No these are not...

Nah, I expect the opposite from Harimoto, even in this match he was 2 points from winning. And Boll played excellent table tennis throughout the tournament. he can't sustain this level for age related reasons but the level itself made many top 30 players look like amateurs. We are all...

A 42 year old player who beat Jang Woojin 3‐0, Lee Sang Sun 3‐1 and Lin Yun Ju 3‐2. See where this is going? Again, anyone who can't see that Harimoto is working on his game after watching that match is just blind. Whether the results are perfect is a completely separate story.

TBH criticism time....

Yeah, the Boll-Lin match, Timo did complain for a second. It didn't seem to be anything more than a second though. These people play in Qatar almost every year, this is unlikely to be a venue change, it is just the cameras since it affects almost every WTT event.

The whole tournament has been beautiful to watch, he made Jang Woojin look like an amateur and made Noshad Alamiyan look toothless.

No way Togami threw that match. Harimoto was in morbid fear of being criticized by TBH if he didn't win so he upped his forehand game.

To be fair, I wouldn't discuss most of this stuff with a student. IT is also best just to be around good players and to learn by copying and mirroring them. But when you are coaching someone, a mental model like "throwing a frisbee" works for some people, but if the student has bad physical...

Gauzy had Harimoto on the brink. We would never have heard the end of it from TBH lol.

If you coach a bunch of adult learners, including yourself, who want to get to a decently high amateur level, take this approach and tell me how well it works and then we can discuss.

A subtitled version of this video had a huge influence on how I view the backswing and the stroke. The subtitled version might be on a dead channel or something. But I will post some of the video points where there are graphics that how your backswing arm should be shaped for maximum effect...

I'm here. Your game is not worth discussing, the ball is relatively dead on most of those strokes. The fact that you think it is a loop is a source of disconnect, it's a Dunning-Kruger thing where you really don't appreciate how low your level of play is. And I don't find our discussions...

Maybe I am biased because I play all my backhand strokes already in flexion, but try the following experiment: start in flexion with adequate backswing, whip the wrist backwards (mild pronation) and move forwards to the finishing position, and decide whether most of the effect was caused by...