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One of the things I will recommend to you if your shoulder can take it is to learn a proper pendulum serve. Many players, including myself and even some world class players, do not serve the pendulum serve properly and get suboptimal results doing it. The main thing is to have your elbow very...

Waiting a year to change your rubbers is kinda criminal :D. Makes me wonder how much use you give the rubblers. More seriously, unless you think you are seriously losing grip, wait it out. After you change you can tell if it was worth waiting this long. Because new rubber does play...

The saddest part is that while it is pickleball, there is enough there to point out clearly that brokenball is being silly - zeio quoted all the relevant parts and if I felt brokenball was worth taking seriously I would read the papers. "...Since rubber surfaces are outlawed in pickleball, only...

Respect for trying. Your choice of downgrade and your method for assessing whether the change works misses the point but kudos for trying. No one is saying that your loops will be faster if you use exactly the same technique with a slower blade. In fact a faster blade makes producing quality...

For the record, I had the engineering degree years before I started playing TT. You seem to have a very bad memory for academic credentials, often making them up for players you respect and disparaging those of people you don't like. In any case there is no point making up for your low level...

Seriously, you don't know how to play table tennis. You parrot a lot of things that betray an ignorance of what it actually takes to play high level tennis. Then you hide behind claims about understanding a system with mathematics that even the mathematicians who model it will tell you that...

So I have gone through a rough patch at work and school (as well as dealing with my kids' sleep issues) so while there is outstanding school work and work work, I finally got my priorities straight and decided to play TT on Friday, Saturday and today :D. I went with my new Joola setup on Friday...

I wouldn't go as far as let him win. WCQ clearly outplayed him and Ma Long knew he had no chance. But Ma Long will not be counted out of the Olympics on the basis of this result and ML winning here would have boosted his case for being able to handle fast opponents more. WCQ already has a help...

They are battling for an Olympic spot, a loss in this match would have hurt WCQ much more than ML. The next battleground is the WTTC and the draw there will be interesting.

Can you point out where you have written the equations that you claim to understand?

He has already explained what is wrong with your assumption - if it were true, then the rubber used, whether dead or not, would have no impact on the observed differences in spin production when one changes rubber. And this is clearly not what we see in the real world. No, one cannot produce...

Such changes are very hard at the top level. But I suspect if he gets desperate he will investigate. But he can't make progress with his current short game issues. But top 10 is a pretty high bar to make progress from. He is still a bronze medal candidate in Tokyo.

France and Poland have some really strong players in the pipeline and I suspect Sweden and Germany do too. But I will let the people who live there speak to them. Australia also has an interesting young player at 14 that will be interesting to see where he ends up. Currently lives in the USA.

I love and respect your coach, he is keeping it real.

This is a very important post. What isn't fully appreciated by many people, especially people who are too young (old people learn it too late after becoming addicted and hurting themselves with repetitive motion injuries) is that fitness (resistance training even more than aerobics) is key for...

ML, FZD, and to a lesser degree ZJK, XX and WH have given people a skewed view of table tennis success. I also blame the lack of young strong players coming out of Europe, a point zeio has made. I used to think the issue was Chinese dominance but when you realize that the best 3 European...

For J Bus. Relevant to my point about pushing side topspin and moving the ball around.

Because it is more about the star status and less about the table tennis.

In general it is considered almost impossible to hit the side if you play a regular shot from within the table. (On extreme sidespin shots it is possible but extremely difficult).

So I watched a bit yesterday. Do you get coaching? (JUST SAW YOUR ANSWER TO NDH). My memory might deceive me but it does seem you have improved a little bit but obviously, bad habits are hard to break. The funny thing is that your game reminds me a lot of mine and some of the things I had to...