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Aiming at the elbow or hip where the paddle is held is a common spot to aim the ball, but aiming for the other hip is weirdly problematic and more confounding than many players realize. And again, this is a tactic that works against almost anyone. I remember one day I was playing the best...

Table tennis funding is largely governmental. Tennis funding is largely corporate. Makes a big difference in the influence of national associations on the sport.

This is sometimes true, but is often enough wrong. You only want to stay away from someone's weapon when you don't know how to defuse it. Sometimes, defusing someone's weapon is about going to it, so that they can give you a ball you send to their weakness with pace or spin that kills then...

You would likely have to use a match that you play to ask for that. The problem is that you are asking for insights using players who play nothing like you. Maybe the fact that the guy has pips on his backhand is one thing but not much. So how would I play them? I would serve them heavy...

His whole game looks as if he has shoulder damage, not just the serve. Pretty good player.

Baal, he kinda exists already though not the same obviously. Nominee 1:

I don't think it is so hidden though. They probably thought through it and wanted to give people an incentive to field national teams and so that top countries would not use it to increase their medal count with collusion/bribery without cost (imagine if China paired with Japan or Germany or...

Quadri Aruna used to qualify easily. It is now mostly acceptable but still has strategic issues.

They want to give you an incentive to have national team pairings. It lets you have more players participating.

The man cannot retire, he loves his job too much...

Sometimes, I watch some of my old videos and I like to think the equipment made me play better (Hexer and MX-s, where are you?). Then I use the equipment and realize that even videos deceive me and mess with my memory lololol...

Innerforce with slight modifications unless you know what the redesign does for you or Tiago is your favorite player why spend the extra money?

The Freitas ALC is the new Maze, so to speak. You can try the innerforces as well. Blade choice is not rocket science, it's more like dating and marrying - some get lucky with love at first sight, some hop around and then commit, while others continue to date until they die, or some marry for...

Any answer other than Fan Zhendong at the current moment is purely a joke (Jike) right? There might be a few Liang Jingkuns and Karakasevic's and Jeoung Youngsiks out there, but there is only one FZD. What I find really impressive is the overall global improvement in the level of backhand...

Yeah - I kinda fixed that (Upup is close enough). Might tell Mr Lehman who gets the Spinlord short pips to get me a sheet of Dormenglanz. The guy who gave me the tutorial is a chop blocker and we used to play a lot until I got over 1800. So because of how he used to block lots of spinny loops...

Yeah. Not so much on the dark side (yet), but since I coach people who play the dark side and I am trying to help people adapt to various spins, this is an important surface to master at least up to an 1800-2000 level so that students don't get frustrated or give up once they face a good long...

I guess the software has improved - threads like these were often closed by moderators and restarted as fresh threads in the forums I used to belong to in the 2000s.

It is not as farfetched as you describe. Large threads like this usually push the databases supporting sites like these to their limits.

Went to my club today even though it still has no floor covering. One of the supervisors was giving the club owner grief because the new space lacks an accessible restroom. Well, now you know why I don't play as much... In any case, i had put together a new paddle with my old flame, Big...

Complete destruction after the first match. Karlsson fought, but he was never really convincing.