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No system is going to get you everything you want, you need to decide what you are trying to achieve and see which goals are more important. No system is beyond criticism. Are you trying to ensure people play to maintain rankings or trying to measure player strength more accurately ?

If you translate the Chinese for loop, it means to "pull past". So the Chinese define the loop as a stroke where you can't stop at the ball. That is part of the reason I ask the question because sometimes, people mean different things from what they think they are saying so I try to understand...

Thanks but there was a specific reason I asked the question. We see TT differently. Sun Wen won quite a lot of points from service winners and serve return winners. Is that in your analysis as well? And are those also weaknesses of Harimoto? Isn't it easier to conclude that in many ways...

If you play your forehand, do you stop your stroke after you hit the ball? Just curious.

Do you have a similar analysis for Ma Long or Xu Xin or Fan Zhendong? If you did, maybe it would help you see why your approach to this issue is limited. In fact do it for ML FZD all 3 matches this year.

I believe he was 3rd (Haha zeio reminds me I am getting old) place at the last games so upset is relative and maybe partly driven by new ranking system considerations.

Will do. I was a bit too sensitive to what I perceived to be bad coaching. Everyone has a right to post what they want and I should let the reader judge (after all, I didn't end up in hospital after taking all the bad advice seriously, though my TT did get derailed for a few years).

Solja loses deuce in the 7th.

Nah, noticing facts makes you guilty of dehumanizing hate. Just pretend it is all European TT so we can all live happily ever after.

Let's give an example not related to Ito or Harimoto. Quadri Aruna had a backhand so deficient 6 months prior to the Olympics that Chuan Chi Yuan beat Aruna so badly (in Aruna's words, CCY brought his own ball and didn't let Aruna play). At the Olympics, CCY was asked how he lost to Aruna 0-4...

Re deploy, Redploy!

I don't think I ever said great player. When I am being reflective, I really mean that critics should give some evidence of their play or some perspective of their experience so others can see where they are coming from. I will accept coaching experience too, I have seen adults who can't play...

That is fine. I am always a fan of reality. As long as you don't ignore facts, please tell any story you want.

Yeah but their names tell a different story. It's not like Japan where you change your name when you become Japanese.

Well I also feel inclined to make sure that most web coaching on TTD is done in a manner that encourages people who put out their videos in good faith to get comments from people who have at least demonstrated some willingness to discuss their game a significant amount so people understand their...

Dima is out. Oh well... so has Groth gotten better or has Dima gotten worse? Or some mix of both?

Dima doesn't seem to agree. At least Groth completely disagrees as he is up 3-0 at the moment.

What does slower really mean? And why do you think you need a fast blade?

Solja pulls it out. It would make zero sense to have Han Ying as a teammate and lose that match. Zero.

He has posted some of his whole matches a while back. I think he played Xu Hui in one of them. But he can post them again. I think he is somewhere around 2250 based on my estimate. My estimate may be off of course.