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Father time is undefeated. But I will fight... :ROFLMAO: I got to around 200lbs during Covid... this was 3 years ago - most of the weight gain happened after I had kids and started eating junk with my wife and playing less because of injuries lol... But then I started trying to build muscle...

Mark was around 1800 then (his max was around 2000), and I was around 1500-1600 after about a year a few months of training - this match was in October 2012. He is around 1500-1600 now but Father time is undefeated and the cool thing about TT is that it keeps you going. Living in Philly and...

No, I don't think he was. My teammates and coach were watching so you can see me motioning towards them a few times. Berg beat me in a rematch later in the day in another event. That was the last time he beat me though, I later could beat him in a variety of ways. I would probably topspin...

It is a good example of how conceptual and technical transfer from forehand to backhand can make a stroke better. It's one of the reasons I recommend using the same rubber on both sides while one is in the Larry learning stages up to even USATT 1600, so that this technical transfer is easier.

It was the original official location of a club called Trolley Car table tennis Club in Philadelphia. They moved to a different space in the same location that wasn't as great. But it is still the primary full time club in Philly though some other places are available to play.

Since you asked: The opponent uses worn out inverted on forehand and anti on backhand so his balls don't really spin. Therefore, almost all the balls you see in that match are flat. Also, this was the 40mm celluloid ball and you could get away with much more without using the body correctly...

Yeah, 09c requires bigger swings on the backhands, the kind of guy who uses it there is the kind of guy (like me) who would like tacky rubber on the backhand, definitely not for everyone. I am sure if I trained a lot more, I might get out of tacky rubber on backhand to be honest.

I don't have that level of insight, lol. When it comes to blades, I am pretty unsophisticated, I just know whether it is generally an attacking/looping blade or a smashing/blocking blade or a chopping blade based on the speed/frequency. I just put down the differences in a specific blade made...

Super ALC - why go ALC when you can Super! Why be a man when you can be a Super man!

Not about how it looks, but about how it plays.

In table tennis, even with limited practice time, there is nothing wrong with messing around a little if you can afford it. A serve is a serve, as long as you practice it and can get good results with it, it doesn't matter what the serve looks like. The key thing about most good serving is...

It isn't heavy topspin. It is just topspin (or more often sidespin or side topspin) that stays short and because it stays short and has deceptive fakes invites naive people to push it like backspin. Wrighty can share a video for sure. There should be decent tutorials on the internet as...

Thia is tough. A reminder that celebrities are regular people in many ways.

Now all you guys who made fun of Boll's short push will fun to watch...

Cleaning would work fine as well, the rubber just needs to age a little. But It plays better with use. It is just hard to br patient. Some people boost it once and never boost it again and get to a good place. But the main thing is to just get it to soften and not be as sticky as too much...

The real key is to let the tack wear off. It's really having too much tack that causes problems. If you are patient enough, and glue it generously, it becomes playable with a bit less stickiness.

1. Yes, but not the way you think any more, especially in today's game where the players are more balanced. Very few backhand dominant players these days at the higher levels. The main advantage of backhand serving for a backhand dominant player is that you are already in a ready position...

Haha - I actually talked about a stroke having a force vector and a spin vector and that the turning effect of a stroke is what creates the spin - that's obviously the torque. I don't use the word/phrase torque because my goal is to illuminate, not to obfuscate or make myself sound smarter than...

No you are not a simpleton at all, I played like that for years, especially with the old ball. Enjoy it while it lasts, when they get better, the ball comes back with interest because the footwork, the ball quality and the opponent positioning means the blocks have to be higher quality, better...