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It's a natural consequence of not getting early training in rotating the shoulders when powering a forehand. Regardless, anyone serious about their table tennis should spend extended time mastering close to the table play as you need it against the pips and deadball players. The problem of...

For what it's worth, serve return was one of the worst aspects of my game and in some ways, it is generally below my overall playing level even now. I tend to only be able to play someone if they have basic serves or their serves are mostly the same spin (and in that case, mostly backspin). I...

In an ELO system, all that matters is your strength is measured by who you play against. So if a 12 year old plays anyone in any event, his strength is measured. In the tennis system, all that matters is how many ranking points you have accumulated. So even if you are playing level wise the...

Gergely is a good looping blade, hinoki outer ply,anything you use on it is fine.

If the rubbers play well, ignore it. If not, reglue.

In practice, spin blocks can be extremely annoying if you need to do drills and warm up rapidly. Credit to Ilia and the penholder is they want to become better practice partners for each other.

Sounds like a $10 increase. London Bridge is falling down, my dear Andy!

Come on Buddy. $31 or $6 more is not the Apocalypse.

Golden Tango is relatively cheap at TTnpp.com. Not sure why pro will be that much more expensive.

LGY doesn't have overwhelming power and benefits from facing CNT power regularly. FZD has overwhelming power and will do very well against most players who don't see it on a regular basis.

Carl, Rainneverever, Please you are both valuable forum members speaking past each other. Any chance for a truce?

All Chinese rubbers have QC problems in my limited experience with them - it's not necessarily that the rubber will not play Well, but that you are not always confident it will play like the last sheet did or that they didn't mess up the sponge hardness or that a sheet won't bubble etc. That...

I doubt we are entirely in agreement when you post advice that I have never heard a good coach recommend and consider it level appropriate for a player who I am fairly sure is below my playing level. Wanting to maintain privacy is fine but it makes no sense to be so quick to offer advice to...

Understood. I think in general that giving TT advice needs a certain level of experience and lots of things people say should take into account the level of the person they are giving advice too. Too often, I have read many internet experts give lots of advice without being willing to share...

What level.have you played or coached at? Is this how your coach taught it to you? Just curious.

Yes. It costs less than an hour of cheap coaching.

This is what unless taught as well. Unfortunately it seems to me that some of us like to dispense advice without ever discussing our qualifications so that advice can be placed in context.

Again people forget when Dima was complaining about this system because it would have ranked Boll 44 in the world or something. Timo played enough to get ranked #3. Dima is not complaining about that anymore. Now we have Ma Long fans complaining because their man cannot remain #1 playing once...

Timo Boll would have been world ranked 47 or something had this system been implemented in January. He is now world ranked #3. He played more this year than he ever has. Why isn't anyone discussing that? Why are we all focused on Ma Long who played less this year than he could have, low...

That's not how professional tours are built, that is how rating systems for performance measurement are built and the goals are different. Anyone can track player strength by putting results into Ratings central. But what we don't want to see on a tour are how strong the players are - what...