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That's because they aren't using whip mechanics, and whip mechanics, as I use the phrase, are more about being able to make the arm a Kinetic chain that takes the energy the body transmits as opposed to being the focus of effort. There are many ways to describe good table tennis and teach...

Try cracking a whip or hammering a nail some time. It is very similar to these videos.

Not really. The main point is that using pips that have more grip (going from long pips to short pips) is similar to going from Hurricane to Dignics 05, in that thr strokes that might have worked seamlessly before need to be retrained. Long pios being less grippy obviously means they react...

I have beaten many players who use pips or dead ball strokes when I struggle to beat players at that level who use spin strokes. The issue you are describing goes both ways. Playing flat tends to affect people who want you to spin all the time, pips just make it easier to play flatter balls...

Seth Pech has a great new video on YouTube on the 14 mistakes of the forehand topspin. He also has some great advice about improving and correcting technique. Sometimes you have to exaggerate what you are trying to do to get your body to accept it. I tell people that you have to get the right...

Something like that is how your elbow and wrist should feel when you are swinging at the ball on your forehand and your backhand. That let's you get good and fast racket head speed which you can work on controlling with timing and practice. It's easier to use this whippy technique to loop...

Hey, Phil, have you ever cracked a whip before? Or hammered a nail?

So here is the video of the second match of the final - some points are probably missing as this is my first real attempt to use an editor to remove points and I am learning Lightworks. But at least, I have done one, maybe I will get better with time doing this. Thanks for watching. And do...

It is interesting, but it is already a well known attitude. This video describes it well:

A lot of stuff depends on your playing level and ball quality (spin, speed, power, location/placement, deception). There was a time such players used to give me fits. Now, I can sometimes serve to them a whole game and they won't return one serve. Or they can return some but they will be...

You know you were my inspiration lol!

The draft is more ceremonial than objective. Seeing Kou Lei picked in the second round convinced me of that. Just think of it as a made for TV spectacle, something other than how you usually think of as a draft actually created the teams.

I didnt give the burden of judgment to the LP players because like lefties, the lp players are the minority so they don't have to adjust to the majority the same way the majority has to adjust to the minority. How does that support your argument again? And since their effectiveness is entirely...

No, my logic isn't, and no your conclusion gives too much credit to players who are adapting to players they play repeatedly and not going out of their way to compete and challenge themselves. I have seen many 1200 players beat pips players of equivalent level. If the return was as devastating...

The difficulty of the chiquita is built into the level, risk and reward. The most effective short serve returners are not pips players, maybe in your world they are, but in reality, none of the pips players are considered threatening because of their pips. You can put the ball on the table...

Yes, but you also have to balance that with how likely the return is to win the point when it lands. Since you went there, finish the analysis. Anyone who lives in a world where Lp returns serves 100% of the time is playing at a really low level.

So we played the African TT Dallas league today with 7 players. The one player who would have been clear favorite was out of the country (not that he is unbeatable strictly speaking but I haven't beaten him yet and he would have been seeded #1 by rating). As organizer and top seed, I got a...

So the supposed stability of the receive makes it more devastating? It's almost like you believe your arguments to the point you really believe a long pips return puts more pressure on a server than a Chiquita.

You seem to think most skill is athletic. Do you really believe a long pips push is more devastating than a banana flick or a short push?

Maybe you have this perspective because of who you play with but that is not my perspective at all. LPs cant produce much variation on serve return and if you lock into the ball, you can attack it almost every time. Of course the inordinate amount of practice against inverted makes this feel...