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Do you think you will ever beat those players with the pristine technical path you are on? Why or why not? Everyone including Ma Long and Timo Boll has lost to someone with worse technique than them. Table tennis is not a beauty contest. But what is the purpose of good technique if it isn't...

lifting is a concept that gets people into trouble. You rarely need to lift backspin. You just need to "shape" it or swing round it and see the effect. Most heavy chop (and even heavy topspin) is looped with some sidespin to avoid the main spin. In fact if you loop closer to the tip if...

It's really funny, but this was the video I was trying to find for you at the time and I finally found it: Obviously, we all want to and ideally should play shots in balance, but balance is not the same as being in a set position and being precisely ready. Balance means having good posture...

The biggest thing that helps is getting the right coach or mentor - most people who don't play well or get better don't have someone who cares about their game. If you find someone who cares about your game and is often willing to train or hit with you, it will often get better, even if all you...

At the risk of completely derailing this thread, I posted this match on another thread. These players are both over 1600 TTR. You can spend a lot of time with technique and not beat the winner here if you just can't play effective shots.

This is an amazing post. It is very zen like in its construction. Technique has a goal - to help you generate quality balls. If you can generate quality balls (with the necessary recovery if the ball comes back and no need for recovery if it doesn't) and your motions do not cause injury, no...

Again, without knowing the context of your training, that is too tight to be called a full swing. I try to cushion these comments because very often, we struggle not because of our capabilities but because of our imagination. A full swing will often end up on your left hip as if you are...

It isn't really the racket speed, and it doesn't quite work as you said. In fact, with a slower racket, you can challenge your opponent with less aggressive play because your touch game could be better in some ways.. The main issue is to work on your backspin game, it isn't that hard to hit...

No you aren't, your shot is as legitimate as Wang Hao's. There isn't a single way to hit the ball in table tennis.

Guys, China trial is a match without stakes. People should always know the difference between a match with stakes and a match without stakes. It helps understand the motivation of the players to win when things are not going their way. Trials are not for the core players per se, they are...

The stroke is good for what it is. The muscle sequencing is much better now. You will probably need extremely good serves to get a ball that you can apply this to on a regular basis. But as a stroke, I don't see anything significantly wrong with and am intrigued as to how it would look in a...

Bigger swings are good close to the table as well, the question is what happens if the ball comes back, but just about every Chinese player (and many top non-Chinese players) use this stroke close to the table. But of course, on a ball that is not designed to come back.

IMHO, the Chest facing left is actually correct, it would be a much bigger problem if the arm came across the body and the chest wasn't facing left.

I read some comment and I shake my head. Reminds me of the mytt days where people would write some very elegant posts full of scientific knowledge about how racket angle should never change and couldn't hit a backspin ball to save their lives. Everyone should be forced to post video of...

So I will say this: amateurs, especially though who haven't developed technical and spin awareness on a great number of strokes, overestimate vastly the technical control they have. So when they miss, they often cannot put it in a box other than say they are not playing well. As you play more...

I am not claiming I always won, but trust me, I would argue that I won (and lost) some close matches due to cheering myself (and crowd influence) because I definitely felt better when I spoke to myself out loud in competitive situations where the crowd was hostile. Crowd sometimes is coaches...

If he is winning, for the people who get nervous, it won't matter. BTW, another thing I learned, which I know is controversial, is the power of people cheering you on and the power of people cheering against you. When I went into hostile crowds/clubs to play, and people were cheering my...

You probably know this, but just about everyone at the amateur level has an imbalanced game. No one can learn everything at once, and we are forced to learn what we don't have other time if we want to get to the next level or even maintain, either to prevent people from exploiting our...

There was an overpriced book called "Get your game face on" by Dora Kurimay, but it was only overpriced relative to expected value in pages. For some people it may be too cheap. But it takes you through how to build a standard preprint routine.