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You are not imagining things, the blade is much faster than the review presents.

John S is an expert on equipment and what pros use, and when you ask him which pros he gets this information from and which pros he knows personally, he never answers.

To support your point, there are lots of matches in TT where a player gets injured and can no longer move and then his blocking game throws of his opponent more than the previous rally game. We have the famous Ding Ning incident vs LSW, we have Samsonov vs Dima at the Olympics, and I remember...

It's ignorance of the history of the sport that leads someone to think that what Wang Chuqin and Ma Long are doing is inherently more athletic than high level hardbat. Modern TT taxes some things more than hardbat does, but hard bat usually leads to far longer and taxing rallies and that by...

In reality, pickleball is actually more athletic than table tennis, other than with respect to certain aspects of speed. The spin dimension that makes table tennis interesting is what really differentiates it from pickleball and that is hardly athletic in nature.

My opinion for what its worth is that if someone wants an athletic endeavor, they should go play tennis. Or even hardbat. If you are playing modern table tennis, you are not playing it for athleticism per se, you are playing it because you enjoy the spin dimension. And pips introduce a...

You can watch the match and read his interviews, he discusses the need to lose weight as he realizes that he doesn't need as much bulk to play good table tennis and watching Lin reinforced that.

The night is darkest before the dawn. Didn't Lin Yun Ju fall put of the top 10?

Obviously, but the backhand makes everything work. I am not saying he didn't improve the other stuff, but even the backhand improved as well.

This one is for Wrighty67...

This is a huge problem with the modern internet, and I hope the creators of that video and channel take this to heart. There were many ways of framing the issue in my opinion and it could have done better if that issue was discussed apart from the Westchester highlights. But chasing views and...

There was one point I saw him cho, it was so quiet you had to see his lips to know he was choing lol.... that was the first time I had ever noticed it clearly though.

How does Lin Yun Ju with a such a strong backhand make it even stronger? It is a reminder to double down in your strengths and stop over thinking your weaknesses.

The one thing that Ma Long did clearly on a different level was that he anticipated and killed Felix's topspin serves. Felix gets into rallies with a lot of those but here he was just seeing the ball put past him. I used to wonder how Felix could get away with serving so much long topspin and...

Yesterday, I went to a neighbor's house. He has a table in his garage and I played a few matches with him and his friend and kids, all to 21, lowest handicap 15, largest handicap 18. I don't think I won any of the 18 handicaps and I won most of the 15s though I might have lost a couple. It...

I watched the highlights again and I think I can cut her some slack. I think Wang Manyu's shovel serve increasingly became harder to read and that threw her off considerably. I think over time, with that experience, the gap will close now Hayata has at least experienced it.

He was using an analogy to make a point, maybe it wasn't quite right, but it should be taken as an isolated story to illustrate a point he was trying to make. Nothing to do with the actuals net worth of Ma Long and Felix Lebrun, but a broader point about experience vs talent (again which you...

Its partly the historical status of the pendulum serve as many pendulum servers have similar issues. Also, Ma Long doesn't always hide the contact so much as have the ball fall behind the plane of his head/back making it harder to keep track of the ball throughout the toss. But my biggest...

Let's not forget the mysterious let. His play today made Harimoto look more respectable.