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A lot of these things are dictated by your ability to introduce spin early into the point either on serve or serve return. And honestly, there is no way to avoid the demands to read the ball and to learn from your errors. A good coach can simulate drills where you need to read the ball.

Then the feed isn't versatile enough or it is too slow to challenge you. You can simulate just about any form of randomness in a multiball setting as long as you are creative enough and your feeder is skilled enough to replicate it. And the goal of the multiball is not so much replicate...

Yes, 2.4.10 is not in the laws. While I don't know for sure, it's a clause that might have existed in some prior versions of the rule book, but like I said, if you don't accept the minimalist intent of how the rules are written, you might not know that the rules have a history that you might...

Can you share some footage of your play so people can see what you are talking about? :ROFLMAO:

Carl, stop being so narrowminded! :ROFLMAO:

The things you pointed out are the general advantages of working with an adult learner coach, technique is mostly taught as needed to facilitate play and solve typical problems, so you don't spend an inordinate amount of time drilling things you may never use, most of the drilling solves typical...

Point/shot of the day...

How did he get injured?

To be fair, I would be roughly a 1500-1700 TTR player in Germany and I am confident that OP would be happy to be a 1500-1700 TTR player in Germany. Your main point is correct - I don't go out of my way to correct or discuss technical issues with much better players unless there are obvious...

This thread is more about discussing the table tennis you usually play and what happened to you in TT today. You could get more responses by opening your own thread for this. And if you want great responses, it is best to post video of your play. But if not, that is fine as well. Just open a...

Trolling under anonymity is a hazard on the internet. You aren't as notorious as SJAN or brokenball, but when you abuse your anonymity using the same principles, we end up in the same place. We just try to understand why people write stuff, that's all.

You sound like someone defending the Holy Spirit of the law - what's next, you are going to speak in tongues about rubbers? Seriously, the table tennis laws are pretentiously written in minimalist fashion so things like singular vs plural nouns are very important for that minimalism. Learn...

This was exactly what I told someone who asked me what inspired most of your complaints about pips - I was like it is just his recent losing record to his penholder hitting partner who probably plays a less athletically respectable style.

Okay. And the use of the word "racket" as a singular noun in just about every match context is also a mistake? The rules were written to allow this possibility but just for some reason only focus on "the racket" and never "the rackets" because the rule writers were waiting for you to show them...

I never said you couldn't play with two rackets. You could even play with tennis rackets if that is your thing. People play table tennis with cell phones and clipboards for fun. I played with planks of wood as rackets multiple times as a child - never learned to spin heavy until I was in my...

I wouldn't recommend this unless you can be really consistent with it, it is just better to either accept the rally or to place the shot better. Unless your rating is massively different from what you have already presented, there is likely to be a gap of sorts between what you are perceiving...

Okay. You are still not citing any laws, just making up your own interpretations. I will end it here, have fun with the new style. People can read the rules and decide why ITTF consistently refers to "the racket" and "the free hand" and whether the purpose was to allow for the possibility of...

Here are the laws if anyone is interested. They begin on page 38 in the pdf. One can decide after reading them whether I am being "narrow-minded" or just better informed. https://documents.ittf.sport/sites/default/files/public/2023-06/2023_ITTF_Statutes_clean_version.pdf

2.5. 6 The free hand is the hand not carrying the racket; the free arm is the arm ofthe free hand. 2.5. 7 A player strikes the ball if he or she touches it in play with his or her racket, held in the hand, or with his or her racket hand below the wrist. You're a smart guy but if you want to...

Well, again, most of the rules, when you read them, are written with the logic that a player is only permitted to use one racket. If you switch rackets from one hand to another for example, then you are changing rackets in a way that the rules did not expect. Free hands when tossing serves for...