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Soft rubbers are not spin oriented and hard rubbers are not speed oriented. The reality is more complicated. Carl gave a good summary but the best article is on thoughtsontabletennis where he explains the kinds of things that can affect looping arc. At lower impact speeds, all other things...

The summary has some issues or Timo Boll would not use Tenergy 05 and his technique is great and his loops are extremely difficult to counter. Same with Dima and many other top pros.

They removed separation by association in the new tournament seeding system for tour events.

Ask EmRatThich.

Then why bring it up? Just to troll and derail the thread?

That was my first thought but knowing him, I realized he was just being him. Even the top kids who try to get into the NBA sometimes hardly go to school to be in school.

Er... is the sport school thing a table tennis thing or a Chinese sports investment thing?

A American player once said to separate the men and the women's tour and have the men play round the world more often because he felt the product was really special. Take that to ITTF since you are so eager for change.

It is a 3 way tie so head to head no longer matters. The Individual ratios are Steger 6-5, Xu 7-6 and Pitchford 5-7. So Steger 1, Xu 2 and Pitchford 3. These things are commonly debated and confused with people trying to bring back the head to head after it is already out of the picture in a...

Fewer games lost means a higher ratio (6/5 is higher than 7/6). This is the documented method.

He couldn't beat Bastian Steger. Steger is tough, man.

His grip.

There is probably an opportunity to create a club around the public facilities. In fact the public facilities are a great thing. The problem in the US is not the existence of amateurs, it is finding good places to play because the rent is too expensive to support good clubs in the cities given...

The group mentality is also human nature. We had to create rules in most TT clubs in the US to prevent this kind of stuff. Sometimes, there is a club appointed supervisor or kind helper who if he is correctly motivated helps with players who need to find matches - I for example will just play...

The USATT felt that moving the site into a more modern age was more important than making sure that what was good in the old site was not lost. I didn't agree, but it is moot now. Since the people on the USATT are working very hard to improve the sport's profile in the US, I have generally...

Thankfully my club has a web camera and it is very helpful for us annual members. We see who is training and how full the club is and we can call in and ask people when they are leaving and decide whether we want to go in or not. My own thing is that find things you can practice with worse...

OSP using the old man's trick - play the opponent until you wear him out and he loses because he is tired of playing and playing you. LOL

TT has fallen asleep a little since he had his decline. We need him to come back and wake it up a little.

He is not on the first national team, could have been his first or second time seriously playing Boll in his life. And Boll is not the kind of player you like to learn to play in your first national championship final. He would likely have played a little better on a less bright stage. And...

Kilian Ort must have drunk the Magic potion...