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IT has been EOL for over a decade now - the thing is that the design is classic and people in Japan keep it alive because it is so good. When Boll signed mine, he went out of his way to say it was a great blade. It is a hard and fast blade, but *relative to its speed*, and that is the important...

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Hahaha - when I try to do footwork, while the technical movements are important, the key for me is stable elbow position. That is why I think you need to develop a backhand stroke because it will affect your forehand as well. When you develop stable elbow position, then you try to get into...

I'm late to the party but for an advanced player who is addicted to all wood, the best blade with the new ball is the Butterfly Mazunov. The only issue is the head size/weight might make it harder to use with modern rubbers for some players but if you can reduce the head size a little on the...

People keep underestimating Kanak to their own surprise. They keep refusing to accept that he is young and improving and delivering on the predictions that he could be top 20 some day which was expected when he was very young given some of the results he showed. In this case, Karlsson's...

World Table Tennis Youtube channel. You have to look for the live stream as they hide it after.

I agree a lot with Takkyu, LDM7 has an adult learner game where the arm is always adjusting to the ball position because the footwork isn't putting the body in the right place for the strike zone to give good impact. But we are all there but unless you realize that you need to try to play the...

There is no easy answer - a lot of it comes together with years of practice and experience as some muscles get stronger and other things become natural. backhand. Elbow position is the key to a lot, even more than the grip. And racket head speed beyond that, The thing about grip is that if you...

HI, LDM7, Have Der Echte serve you long serves for an hour or two, both good long serves and lousy long serves. Almost all no spin and topspin, both weak and heavy, maybe some light backspin. Your requirement is to play a stroke on all those balls. Not a block, not a stab, not a push, a...

You make a good point which gets into the subtleties of equipment - Butterfly had a very good video comparing the 05,80 and 64 pimple configurations that was one of the best tutorials on how some rubbers support brushing/looping better than hitting/blocking and vice versa. Of course, with...

Questions like this are usually best posed to good players around you. In general, if you need more arc/spin relative to your equipment, brush more. If you want more speed relative to your equipment, drive more. A lot of it comes from practice and training and trying to see what happens with...

Maybe I didn't sufficiently convey my happiness at being able to play again. I underestimated the muscles I used to play TT, having played for so long and then not played for so long, this is the surest I remember being after playing ever. But for me TT has a massive dopamine release, I can...

Best loops against a chopper are to the middle. But it isn't an easy thing to do in matches as most of us are used to looping cross court and down the line almost all the time.

I remember retiring in early 2021 or something as a result of my nagging shoulder and back problems in addition to my global arthritis. And of course, the kids. Young mouths are expensive to feed and I fear it is not going to get any cheaper. So I didn't go to the club to hit a ball for most of...

As someone with pretty harsh arthritis, I have found two things helpful - muscle development to stabilize joint and eating a lot less sugar.

The funny thing when I read all these comments is that I remember someone who I used to hang around with who was a CNT fanboy of the highest order. We hung together in around 2015/2016. He felt that Kanak had perfect strokes and the best technique in North America. Technique is so...

I echo what DerEchte said but I would put it differently, I think you were trying to play a specific style because of the pips though I would argue that that style made you miss too many forehands by taking them too early and made you feel you had to rush the opponent. Pips are still effective...

I agree with this, my view is that if Gozo finds a ready position to play out of faster out of which he feels comfortable playing both forehands and backhands and returns to that position (or something that feels like that position) after every shot, he will do better. Some of this comes with...

I wouldn't say shorten the stroke so much as complete your stroke faster. By saying complete your stroke faster, I mean get back to a ready position from which you can quickly transition to play a forehand or a backhand because you should be playing in these drills out of a ready position of...