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It depends on the coach and the player to be honest and a bit on the specific blade and rubber. If the coach is teaching proper hitting and spinning technique and wants to develop the player a certain way, let the coach do that as long as the coach has a path because everyone does it...

Is there any way to get those Nexy skullcap jerseys? I still get compliments when I wear that shirt and not even when I am playing TT lol.

I think you are turning a matter of competence into a matter of "fight". I think ultimately, you need players who are ready to combine the athletic aspects of TT with the mental and tactical aspects. And IMHO, Harimoto and Matsushima are the closest thing in recent times since Mizutani and...

Sunday/tomorrow, the gym where we meet is closed for school use, and my coach is playing a tournament so I had to meet him on Friday at a friend's house to train a bit. Took my camera but forgot my disk so I couldn't record still. We did warmup first for strokes on both sides, and during...

Did you record your matches? I find that it is very hard to be objective about why you win or lose matches without objective insight which you can connect to, which is usually a combination of coaching and video evidence. When you lose from being up 2-0, it is rarely all about you, the...

It's going to be interesting with many dimensions. I wonder whether WMY has a chance of becoming vulnerable as that would eliminate her from OG singles unless China wants the pairing risk.

While this isnt the ideal thread to ask this, here is my opinion: ditch the blade and get something faster. Those blades made far more sense with the plastic ball, now they will largely encourage upper arm overuse and feed lopsided table tennis strokes to less experienced players - it is hard...

Hayata should now be JNT ITTF ranked #1 after Muscat.

Thanks. Beating Redzimski is not a walk in the park either but it is not Lebrun. And the other thing is that he is a year younger. No one knows the future but the kid is doing well for sure. Sora the explorer....

Luann Jingkun matches up with WCQ reliably well. It all depends on whether rhet will play in the same draw.

The forehands he made in that match were amazing. Completely unlike Pitchford to be honest. :ROFLMAO: The movement to cover the angles hit a different level.

Only LGY and LJK played, LGY was visibly injured in the QF and retired up 2-1, LJK missed the semis entirely vs Zhou Kai because of injury.

XD is fundamentally about how dominant the male player can be and how well the female can defend the male opposing player's shots, even when the female is the relatively higher ranked player. I get the Harimoto/Matsushima optics but I don't subscribe to them. Those teams will only be as good...

He's not winning the next Olympics but I wonder where his age stands amongst national champs in Chinese history...

The biggest thing I think is that Miwa has an XD partner that can grow with her and same with Sora - they are already one of the best XD teams in Japan.

That is something he shares with Niwa and Mizutani, lol.

Pitchford is in amazing form. But he has been in amazing form before, the question is how long he can keep it...

Hugo and Simon have been friends and club teammates for years, including this year in the Bundesliga. They even had the same personal coach for a long time. It is good to see Hugo winning these matchups but he is always vulnerable.

All Japanese, all lefties.

Thin 5 ply to thin 5 ply is hardly an upgrade IMHO, but to each his own. It is better to get a real upgrade unless it is a blade that you have tested before and like for some reason. At least you learn something about your game.