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Yes those comments are partly modesty. But they are partly to reduce the pressure on himself. You can disagree but other coaches have pointed this out. When you respect your opponent, you don't panic when things are not going well like Ma Long used to. He is struggling with Harimoto, he...

Not just modesty. He learned the hard way the pressure you put on your game when you tell yourself you are much better than other players. So add experience to modesty.

Since you coach you are obviously a good player. So I think what you are looking for is a justification to use a blade you are comfortable with. I would say that don't doubt your feeling. Children can adapt to anything but once you have developed a certain feeling, it is hard to change. But...

The frequency measure is not a measure of speed but a measure of stiffness. The specific blade tested also impacts the results as wood and glue are not super consistent materials. So you can be very right. The point is that usually, when I call a blade too slow or too fast, I am usually...

I would say start here - it is one variable amongst many but it lets you get a feel on what you like and what you dislike. Rather than buying and testing blades indiscriminately, this measurement lets you get a handle on what kind of vibration you like in your blades. http://www.ttbla.de/...

You mean in the China Open, right? Not the Olympics right?

Again, missing the point but that is okay. It is a good thinks it is not your job because if you don't understand what motivates people, you will do a bad job managing interests. I love watching good table tennis. But many countries only invest in sports when they think they will win medals...

So I thought about it, I think your problem on the forehand is that you engage the upper arm too much. I am not sure it is really too much but it seems you are compensating for not folding or unfolding your torso with raising and dropping the arm on the swing sometimes.

Not so sure. But I suspect at times that people with an inability to empathize often enjoy denigrating the views of others who disagree with them. Some people just like more diversity of winners. Some people like a dominant champion. Some people realize that sports are not invested in in many...

People continue to misunderstand HT, it is not about the BH rallies but about the speed of his game.

For me, it is fairly obvious that the players of today are not WH or ZJK quality for age or technical reasons. It is also fairly obvious to me that ML is a GOAT. Can we move on and stop giving silly arguments for what we already believe because we aren't mature enough to handle disagreement?

This win over LGY does the same thing. Harimoto looks better and better in perspective. It also means that even with the gap in experience, FZD, LJK and LGY might be closer together than I thought after Marvelous 12.

Lin is tilting...

WMY served the same way vs LSW as well. I think she just prefers to get returns from that point on the table. I suspect coaches will encourage her to change this later but this will likely be forever her preferred mode of play.

The last two times I played this event, I was a lower seed (maybe #4) and lost in the round robin one match and the elimination one match. So I will take the wins when I can get them.

The camera angle makes it hard to evaluate the strokes but as always, your body work is good which is what counts more. But the strokes themselves, I don't know. You should be getting more separation from your body with your backhand stroke, so you should be leaning backwards a little while...

Which Carbonado is Chen Meng using?

There.

Played Princeton U2000 event today. I had this stomach flu yesterday from bad eating and watching the China Open. I thought I was going to cancel but I felt a bit better and decided to go play anyways. So I had gone to a training camp in Florida for TTEdge and I finally learned to enjoy...

Just go back to the old blade, blade feeling is not a trivial thing and if a blade feels too fast, it probably isn't worth using unless you train 6 hours a day like a pro when every change is possible. I learned this the hard way and tried to use Boll ALC but no matter how hard I tried, I...