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With your serves, I can imagine the kind of coordination that is necessary. I have some serves that when I use them, I am scared to attack if the ball comes back on the table because of how heavy I made the serve. Makes me scared to use them in doubles as my teammate doesnt have the...

An ancient video for Dominik that hopefully shows why I think he is doing too much in his practice. https://youtu.be/Q5ZwTYRBXM8

Xu Xin got his revenge in the final though... but yes, Xu Yingbin did amazing things. Will be interreting to see whether he can reproduce this form going forward or whether he will be another Yan An...

It is not a high spin rubber. But for the level of spin it produces the control is high. I think most people who are already used to high spin rubbers will just continue to play with those.

Oh, short pips and inverted chop is a really different animal. Completely different animal.

Well I remember one NA Teams many years back , maybe 2013-2014, where I played a team that had a high level coach and two of his junior students. I was the strongest player on my team at the time. I had a teammate who had a really powerful forehand stroke. Decent defense but crappy strategy...

As for the ease of thr one loop, one push or even two loops and one push or three loops and one push dynamic that tou see with pushblockers/choppers and advanced loopers, it is really a matter of practice and your ability to regulate and control your own spin. The first idea is usually yo try...

There are many alternatives, it really depends on getting good grip/friction on the ball so you catch it, and then there are alternatives as long as you know how to generate toout own spin with your racket head speed and choice of contact point. A bit easier to do with tacky rubbers but that...

To follow up on Carl's comment - the true weapon of long pips is not really spin inversion, it is that any hit returns a largely dead ball if the pips are on no sponge. Sponge changes things a little but the key is to be able to get a feel for Joe much grip the pips have not seeing the effect...

Yeah it stays there. You are asking questions to your satisfaction which is important but is partly the problem with over intellectualizing table tennis. Table tennis is not mathematics, the ideas are to guide improvement not to prove theorems. As long you get the general idea that there...

Pretty much *BOTH* - where you are facing determines where the triangle is. The first is more typical for backhand, the second is more typical for forehand. If you stretch both hands out and touch them together like you are carrying a box, you have formed the triangle. Somewhere in there is...

Dominik, It takes time to to learn. I say this because being a fan of table tennis, so many things that appear to be similar are different and many things that appear to be different are similar. Most of what is ideal table tennis hitting takes place in the golden triangle. The golden triangle...

Everything is better, everything can be much better. Thankfully the robot is much better and doesn't have to get better. 1. The lighting is an issue. 2. Use two or three camera angles (front, side, back). That said most of us are used to look at strokes from behind or on front or at...

Some of the discussions and the way they are framed are coming from h amateurs who may not have spoken to the top players or their friends about what it feels like to be a professional. Someone on mytt pointed out that Kou Lei was a player whose game improved when he started using Europeam...

What do you think of Fastarc G1 or C1? Just curious.

Greg Letts has great articles on learning to play against long pips. https://gregsttpages.com/archives/equipment/rubbers/how-long-pips-really-work/ Relative to our playing levels, DerEchte and myself are pretty decent, DerEchte because of his heavy spin, me because I trained in Philly where...

It is an individual result of how their athleticism makes them feel comfortable generating powerful strokes after years/decades of training. Very few players can get the depth of Ma Long's backswing consistently but if you can do it, sure, go for it. But for the rest of us, we just figure out...

Nah, the full problem here isn't purely about mindset. Many people have criticized OP for training to improve. This is BS, part of the reason I started going to clubs to play was because I was tired of losing to people who I felt were not that more talented than I was but who had stepped into...

This - when you play at a level where not doing the right thing almost always loses the point outright, you learn to do it, find another way to win points or you stop playing at that level.

IT is mostly so you can direct your momentum towards the ball. Cocking the wrist back towards you isn't something you force, it is ideally a side effect but what usually happens when your elbow is close to your body is that a lot of momentum goes sideways. Part of the reason why it is good...