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This video is from the China Open so it is a little old, but I love the wisdom in it and would like to keep it for here. I think above all, it shows how honest a person Zhang Jike is when assessing his table tennis. It was a discussion of his loss to Harimoto.

It's also a thread for fan girls, so you should say it is a thread for fans. If you understand that both men and women post here, you may appreciate the scope of the thread more and be a little more open. Just take what you like and leave the rest.

Well played. I would like a Harimoto rematch.

I think it is game plan related for the specific opponent - lots of short balls, mostly to the forehand side. I think they have realized that these kids are too fast for Zhang Jike if they have too many angles into his forehand so they want to reduce that by keeping it on Zhang Jike's backhand...

So far so good. I am pleasantly surprised.

I hope you are right. 50 % is generous to me after seeing Harimoto and what LYJ did to Fang Bo and Apolonia.

Does ZJK have a chance vs LYJ?

The problem is that posting these questions in terms of faster loops shows that your playing experience is limited. It's the slower defensive shots or table craft shots that are the bigger concern for an advanced player. Use the fastest blade that you can consistently play all shots (including...

I used OFF+ blades and the argument against them is not that you can't get to 1500 in one year. It is that they don't let you feel the ball unless you have good touch and they don't encourage looping. And looping is the fastest way to get better at table tennis so you want something that...

A lot of the post is way too general to mean anything. 1. The general advice for a player who wants to play an allround offensive game was to start with an ALL+/OFF- blade with 2.0mm rubbers for looping. Maybe tensors in the modern era. 2. As the player becomes more advanced, they can...

Coming from someone whose coach changed this equipment after working with him for a while, Your post is interesting. I agree with your perspective but I think you are not being fair to the question.

Xu Xin wanted to be with his family.

An alternative is talking over the commentary - it doesn't always feel as authentic to some people, but it can be easier. You can also pause in between the question and response and just post a black screen with your translations. The point is not to make you work to death, your value is in...

If you have developed a serve for many years to a high level without the rules being enforced against you, it can be very hard to fix the serve and feel that it is performing at the same high level because the ball toss change requires timing changes. This is true for *any* serve. In fact, it...

https://youtu.be/0AjpZwz7Z9c She confirmed my point that when Wang counterlooped Ning's opener at 3-3, 4-5, it pretty much killed Ning's resistance.

Zhang Jike spoke about the same problem when facing Ma Long when both were younger. He said his style was always to try to seize the initiative and that Ma Long was such a good counter player that he just ran up against a brick wall. Until he learned to try to control the play enough to vary...

Now I think about it, I think in both cases what happened was that FZD didn't think that Ma Long could push the ball short, so it violated his training muscle memory.

I think with all the rule changes and equipment changes, it will be hard for someone to learn all the tricks that Ma Long picked up playing in the era of tricksters like Ma Lin and Wang Hao. So in a sad way, you may be more right than we can appreciate.

I thought I was watching One Punch Man, where Saitama (Ma Long) leaves himself undefended and the villain, Carnage Cabuto (FZD) is scared to attack because he thinks One Punch Man couldn't possible leave himself that exposed and will kill him if he attacks.

Another chapter closed and FZD still hasn't acquired the versatility and experience to cope with Ma Long. FZD needs to take a page out of LJK's book maybe or maybe it is just true that LJK does have the most powerful backhand on the CNT.