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I spent maybe 11 hours at TT clubs from Friday to Sunday and didnt get a minute of footsge. Have to do better. Some lessons learned: 1. Need a solution to short forehand serve return. The right leg needs to function or the hole is too big once someone figures it out. Many are really...

We got one of these at the Korean club in Dallas on Saturday. Guy came in and held the table without losing once. Beat a lot of good players too. I tried once, lost 1-3 which sounded much better than the match looked, and I had never seen someone give the dead ball so consistently in my life...

Yeah but we are not the coach that will be working with the user of the equipment.

If Energy Xtra is too expensive. doesnt that rule out Rozena? You have to develop fast swings and good touch to use harder sponge profitably. It is usually best for a coach to select the equipment for the player so they can be built according to the coach's philosophy.

Anyone know which of these is supposed to be their version of K3?

Dunning-Kruger, guys. It even happens to people who are experts at some field but just don't realize it doesnt translate to another field the way they think it does. You have to have some philosophical and teal life reflection to know the true limits of your perspective. Just being a good...

Liar liar pants on fire?

So I got out of work early yesterday and went to play. Weirdly an idea came to mind - I played some of my best TT while training early during the pandemic with a Carbonado 245 and Dignics 09c on both sides. I actually shaved the handle down so I could hold it the way I wanted to. And then I...

No doubt, but you used the phrase on higher levels and you are speaking about your coach. I played 2, maybe 3 players, who used to do that shot on me almost all the time with that quality (they would cut deep and heavy into my forehand wide knowing they would get the shot). All 3 were 2300+...

Well, he had other results that confirmed the assessment, in any case, everyone has parts of the game higher or lower, I am the one that played the match, I know how much I put on that ball. Rating in the end is about your results.

Yes, 2400-2700 makes sense. Can't believe I forgot about Bilenko. To be honest, sponsors and resources don't always improve a player's level, and the ITTF system is a bit limiting on local players in the way it limits international representation, though that would just crowd out many domestic...

So who are the other names? I know Kou Lei and and Zhmudenko, but I cant remember any other Male players. I know Pesotska forever and I remember Gaponova (or is it Haponova) I think because she chops. But Women not really the focus here, trying to understand how the domestic level in Ukraine...

So how many of them are there in Ukraine? Zhmudenko is like the best Ukrainian international player?

Chess.com ratings are a bit higher than regular over the board ELO even when adjusted for time control. Zhmudenko is a master of sport? The first video is not viewable.

Ratings are a result of performance not a result of looking a certain way. But if you want to continue down this path, feel free to, though it should preferably be the context of your personal table tennis. The point of this thread even if inconsistently followed is to discuss your own table...

My response was to NDH, I know you know who was who.

You're looking at the wrong video for the 2300 player lol... the pips player is not 2300... cybershape blade nor not... I am also using the cybershape in that video BTW... I just didn't adjust to his medium pips quickly enough...

I will await the uploads but making the shot with that power is easily 2300, just about everyone I know who kills that loop like that has 2300 in them. He didn't even just counter it, he loopkilled it for a winner. BTW, he won the Missouri state championships and came out 2360. He beat Alex...

Everyone can do such shots in practice but I know my ball quality on that loop so if you can do that to that loop with that timing, then you are going to be 2300 too.

When he made this shot, I did a double take during the match in my own calm style and asked - how is this guy 2100?