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Chen Weixeng is an over the hill 45+ year old (not sure when the match was played). Same with He Zhi Wen. Dima was world #1. Maybe you should consider that in your analysis (but I get it, pro is pro and rank amateur is rank amateur). But all we hear is about the long pips... and still...

But he is a "rank amateur" - your not knowing similar things about other people and focusing on their use of LP makes my point. You have no clue what their background is, but just want to focus on their amateur status.

Yes, definitely not the same, without those things, it is one of the most popular sports in the world. Food for thought.

For the record, here is another Chinese "rank amateur".

It is all because of the long pips!

Hardbat is a sport that when you play it, long pips has hardly any advantage when introduced into the mix of hardbat. A lot of people enjoy hard bat table tennis. There is definitely spin, it just isn't extreme. Give that some thought.

It has very little to do with LP per se, and like I said, you never stated what his training hours were or what his tournament victories were. Similar things happen in sports like golf, chess etc. all the time - there are players who play lot of hours but never were professionals for one reason...

Wait, you mean those 2600+ players supposedly struggling with LP are not making blahness's points? I thought the limit was 2200.... So you mean Chen Weixing and He Zhiwen are not 2200+ players? And Chen doesn't use LP himself? More seriously, everyone struggles with things they haven't...

Wang Xi losing to a Nigerian amateur :D.

This is becoming like ERT calling Idesawa an amateur - immediately we don't know someone's TT background or hours of play, we call them an "amateur" or a "nobody". Of course, despite He Zhuoja being a national team member, we are completely sure that these guys are mainly doing what they do...

If you are being caught with balls directly to your middle, then you are probably serving/looping to easy points on the table and not using sidespin to your advantage. It is extremely hard for a good sidespin serve (whether side or side back) to be returned with precision to your middle, same...

I have been a fan of that series for a while. It has been a struggle to find the playlist for the videos so I appreciate that link.

Butterfly Sardius as well.

Yes. Everything has its time and place. If your point is that OP needs to play third ball against any return from his coach without knowing the return and that is the irregular drill, I agree with you. The push or flick or loop can go anywhere and OP has to play the point out. But usually...

Playing significantly better players is never a good say to gauge improvement. Some of them are working on improving too. You need better targeted goals. And to be honest, irregular drills are largely a waste of time too, you need to do things that improve your play within the structure of...

That is what it mesns to produce a dead ball. Don't generate spin of your own, mostly reflect the incoming spin and usually, pips you can hit with kill the spin on the ball. So it largely produces a dead ball. Sure you can chop with long pips but you aren't going to get much spin unlike doing...

Long pips create deadvalls, otherwise most players would not use inverted on the other side. They can produce other spins largely in response to incoming spin but their primary effect is to add or subtract slightly from the incoming spin. They don't generate spin like inverted does, they...

The thing is that players who say this never want to switch to pips. The main thing that makes pips hard to play against is their ability to produce a dead ball in rallies and that most people who enjoy playing high spin table tennis don't want to read and hit the dead ball. But hitting the...

The advantages long pips offer require a lot of practice to make work, especially for someone who is in tune with inverted timing. Consistently hitting heavy spin balls is a difficult skill. Looping is definitely a more physically taxing skill in terms of pure athleticism, but hitting balls...

Cybershape Carbon is based on the Stiga Inspira CCF. Unless you have used an Inspira (and I haven't), it is hard to tell what the CC brings that is special vs the Inspira CCF (some in my club have said that they prefer the Inspira in casual conversation but no one uses it regularly). I play...