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So how would you return the ball? A push or a block?

Yes, the video you pointed out, which ShoutGuy provided, was extremely explicit about what was going on with no doublespeak. It is the kind of thing that shows you how intentional the mendacity is, It goes into all the nuances. It takes a special level of trolling to ignore the video's...

Interesting - what is the durability of Superselect 48 like? I haven't tried new rubber in like forever, but maybe if something is better than T05 in almost every respect, I need to give it a seat at the table somehow... I know you are speaking subjectively but can't disregard the opinion of...

I like the fact that you are also seeing how all these people watch and explain these videos based on what they think is happening without even reading the subtitles and then accuse people who have read the subtitles of being bullies and unable to understand the views of others.

Rakza 7 is also good enough for sure, just use the same thing on both sides until your technique is mature. It makes it easier to transfer stroke knowledge across both sides and to learn to respond to balls with the same intuition faster. Then when you reach a level when you have defining...

@UpSideDownCarl, I beg your forgiveness in advance. 1. No, the backspin does not get reversed. If someone played the same stroke with a hacking forehand, it would be obvious that the backspin will not get reversed as there is no attempt to come over the ball and produce topspin. This is more...

Yeah, if it didn't recommend tacky rubber for you, the machine needs a hard reset.

Anders999, Let's change topic a little, how do you use 48 degree sponge one forehand so well? Were you a Tenergy 05 user at any time?

Because the incoming serve has backspin, you can keep the existing backspin on the ball. It is like coming up the front of the side of the ball, similar to a heavy backspin serve. It is not the same as playing over the top of the ball, similar to the loop vs backspin - this is more like Hou...

The original point being made is that one can misinterpret the video but that there is enough basis in the video for it being interpreted as delivering a ball that is not a topspin ball. The physics claiming that you can't deliver an underspin ball with that swing is just wrong. It was...

That's all I am saying. It's just what a TT player does - figure out how to return it using a mental model that works. The hardcore physics you figure out later if you give a damn, but I have seen lots of people with screwed up intellectual physics, myself included, return balls that they just...

Serving/receiving is different since the ball is slow enough to be deliberate about where to contact it. In serving as well, it is easier to do things that give the ball a mix of spin and force vectors. In rallying and receiving, given the limitations often enforced by distance and incoming...

The ball moves (and spins) in one direction and when it hits the table, if it has a significant amount of corkscrew, it kicks in the direction that the corkscrew element takes it. If not, my experience is that you need to treat it like topspin or backspin with a mild sidespin adjustment for...

You aren't, the problem is that you are focused on the physics and blahness is focused on the table tennis. How would you return the ball? How would knowing it was corkscrew given how the ball is travelling affect your approach? If you pushed the ball, could you return it? If so, what is the...

The original super team is Shandon Weiqao on the men's side. How they allowed Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Zhao Qihao and Yu Ziyang to be on one team together still boggles the mind. Thanks would like that team, 2 first team players, one borderline first team player and probably the best lefty...

Going to record the matches some day but it is out a pendulumish sidespin motion. But the topspon ball definitely moves differently but the speed of the motion is hypnotizing and once you push it, he comes in flat if the ball is short so you are pretty much toast.

Usually, the better the player, the more aware they are about the limits of what they claim to know, even when they know a lot. It's not really about the playing level but about why you feel so confident arguing with better players vs understanding their perspective. Better players have already...

My usual advice is to get something like Rozena or Fastarc C1/G1 and use it until you think you know what you are doing. Because I know 2000 level players who have used them profitably, but if you decide you don't like them, you have developed your strokes using something that can support...

There is a guy in my club who has a nasty one but not off the hook serve. The backspin after fake is great and the ball is slow but heavy. And he has an atomic forehand so if you don't do something really active with it, you lose the point to the 3rd ball. Once in a blue moon, I can loop kill...

Probably the wrong person to give advice but for Vegas, all I can advise you to do is graduate! Especially since you are using it on the forehand.