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This makes perfect sense. I would say just don't use the serves all the time but should use them maybe 5% because table tennis is about winning not rallying and you want to know what the opponent does against such serves when they come back.

Your relationship fascinates me so I will be watching closely. In all seriousness, looping backspin requires a certain feeling of shaping the ball and developing it with extremely fast rackets and confidently hitting the table is challenging and the rackets will tend to send the ball long (or...

Not sure how you are holding back as there are many ways to hold back, but a lot of it depends on whether you see your practice partners as people you compete with or people who if they get better then you get better. I personally just serve like I serve in a match, maybe I might make it more...

Serve return is the most difficult part of the game at every level in some way or the other. The great thing is that everyone gets better at it with time. The bad thing is that you never give yourself credit for getting better at it as you always seem to be missing at the level of opposition...

Yes. Hitting with different degrees of quality so your body isn't locked into hitting the ball at one pace all the time. Or you can decide to hit every ball with the same quality but then you need to practice against different incoming balls. Challenge your body to adapt a lot because people...

Trying to win matches with immature technique is tough, especially when you are playing at a decent level already. Let it be a gradual evolution as the body will naturally select what it feels will give it the highest probability of success. Your coach might have a different philosophy but I...

Congrats, winning through performance over time is always a good feeling.

Thanks for this. Gozo thinks I am joking when give him 6 months to a year assuming he works on it. His choice of equipment is not going to make his match journey easier (but not impossible either) but he chose to lie on that bed so he will have to enjoy it.

That is awesome to know. So since you can't use the rubber to its potential, why not use one of those awesome rubbers you can use? Why use and complain about this one beyond reviewing it?

Given everything you have said/written, it is more likely that your forehand technique is insufficiently advanced to use the rubber, which seems along the likes of Hurricane 2. Do you have to use it?

@Gozo So this would have been my answer in the absence of video, but you say you actually loop in practice, so you are unlikely to be smashing in practice. What is your success rate in practice? How many balls do you loop when your coach is pushing to you? Do you have video of your practice...

Without video, the only person who can help you is someone watching, especially if he is your coach. Carl and Hcl have given great answers but if you have the video, you can get better answers and often even figure it out yourself.

Thanks for the lesson. Gotta learn something new every day...😜

Take the highest peak, as that is the peak that we are most interested in for this exercise. There are other things that we probably can and should measure for understanding blade properties, but that would require some more investigation that some people have done, but I haven't deeply studied...

Tamca 5000 is the carbon in Butterfly Carbon blades. It is in many of their blades including the Primorac Carbon, Gergely, anything labelled T5000, and just about anything with the Carbon label that doesn't have another fiber (in those, it is woven with another fiber).

I know some old school topspin players who like it with inverted rubber in the old days as well. But as you said, for developing players, there are better options. But everyone can use what they like. I once used Giant Dragon Balsa blades when I was learning and even played with a Giant...

I don't even think there is a 5 ply vs Carbon debate seriously anymore with the new plastic ball. The debate is really whether one should learn TT with a really fast blade and what it means to be a really stiff and fast blade. That's why I brought in the blade frequency chart to take the...

This is true, I tend to play very close to the table so this helps me against the pips players and hurts me against the inverted players. I don't need the ball to come off to attack it but the inverted player who backs off will get affected by balls that don't come off the table.

Avoiding playing pips players with the belief that your game will just automatically take care of itself against such players is a huge mistake IMHO. I have seen with my own two eyes 2200 players lose to 1800 pips players largely because they had no clue what to do, where an 1800 inverted...

Honeymoon period! Enjoy it lol!