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This is true but besides the point. Rubbers are different but not so different that you can't learn how to adjust to them once you get a feel for what the rubber is supposed to do. Tenergy 64 is more speed oriented but it is still a very spinny rubber. It blocks and pushes well. I believe...

At that time he should have beaten Lee Sang Su.

The backhand is like a penhold backhand. You can see it from the way Boggan blocks. The shots in first point in the match against Dubina are backhands. The anti is for variation, usually to try to block the ball short to being the opponent in or to maintain position at the table. It is not a...

Great stuff. If he is willing to figure out LP or MP by himself, you have given him the best response. A bit hard without a coach but not impossible.

I rarely ever analyze anything other than footwork and body rotation from the back. Hard to make serious comments about your technique from this camera angle.

Losing to young improving players is part of the cycle of table tennis. Even if you improve he will probably improve more. If you are USATT 1100, there are many ways to improve, the problem though is that most of them require you to find and play better players and to learn and understand...

I find for me that revisiting bad footage allows me to put the play on perspective and find my own story. It may not happen immediately the match is over but I find a time to do it.

Feel better. Not sure whether I told you I played JT at the Cary Cup.

I wrote a long response to this before I had to do other stuff so I never posted it. Zeio translated LGL saying that one of the reasons that ML perpetually struggled with WH was that he didn't position himself properly from a mental standpoint and it affected this technical execution. ZJK...

MY club tournament was today. Ever since my club down sized to a smaller space, they have not had good tournaments, only for players U2000, which means I am only eligible when I am playing bad lol. So since I lost a few points at my last 2 tournaments, I was eligible again. All the other...

Boosting is not was what people think it is, the main purpose of boosting is to make the sponge more elastic/compressible. The effect is temporary but may get you through an initiation period. I would just get the sponge hardness you really want and just rub a thin layer of oil on the sponge...

That royally sucks. Good luck finding a new coach. Is your coach moving to a far away place?

Just record the session. Usually that captures the information and you can then review, learn and fix.

You are a very good player so the advice is a bit more difficult. I will give you my prescription. 1. Stop using the robot. Use multiball. 2. Backhand play is very different from forehand play for most players. Backhand is good against quality ball. Backhand is not so good against a...

It is something I concluded and I doubt that Niwa would have felt the need to play well vs someone he has lost to almost every time he has played that person if not for that fact. Sometimes, it is the nature of the circumstances that causes these issues.

Yes but top athletes are often also realistic and usually set incremental goals. You don't hear most countries going after Olympic gold in singles, they talk about getting a medal because they know they are thinking about silver or bronze depending on the event. Koki Niwa cares, and I never...

What part of my statement is not factual? That he would have been less embarrassed if he was playing this match in Hong Kong?

So I have played quite a bit and lost a lot of matches trying to get my tournament form back and I can see that my physical effort is not there largely because of my right knee and I haven't really decide what to do. It is so much harder to end points on third ball everything is rally now. And...

Wang Nan is on the short list for the greatest female players of all time. Koki Niwa is not on the short list for the greatest Japanese players of all time. Apples and oranges.

Again, he was playing in Japan in front of his people against a Chinese player and was embarrassed by his performance. This context is missing when evaluating his statement.