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From my amateur point of view. No matter what your level is, you need to work on your strength and weakness. Strength is your techniques or tactics that you know you can 100% win the point against same level players. Weakness is something that you don't want your opponents to find out in the...

Yea, I think we are not just abandoning penhold, we are abandoning that style or philosophy. That is, if your backhand lacks power to attack, you can play a forehand dominating game with a smart backhand touch with good placements and variations. We can play with this style even in shakehand...

Truls' win doesn't look like a one off lucky day or being in form. He has changed a lot compared to when he was in the Paris Olympics. He improved his consistency, aggressiveness, and determination. So many good shots with power and precise placement!

You can borrow someone's paddle that is not a premade. If it feels not much different power-wise, it's your technique. If it feels powerful without losing control, then you need an upgrade.

There is still hope! Too bad that Tik Tok was not available when Ma Lin, Rye Sungmin, He Zhiwen were at their prime.

Thanks for sharing. Always happy to see someone playing with penhold. And I agree, one can become very good with the traditional penhold style. It's just not many people choose that path now. My guess is there aren't good resources to learn from.

I think it's going away in the amateur world too. I have seen and heard many people switching from penhold to handshake, but never the other way around. and most young players use handshake.

Some people pointed out that you are overthinking. But also, this just tells me that penhold is not as natural as the handshake grip, and there are not much good resources (videos or coaches) for you to learn from. I really like to watch the traditional penhold style, not Xu Xin, but the Ma...

I am not laughing at this. It's just a fun topic that you relate sweeping to TT strokes.

lol did you tighten up your core also?

This is not a valid question. They are both important for different reasons. For non professional players, as long as your blade is decent, you would feel bigger impact from rubbers than the blade until you start power looping/smashing/blocking.

All the well known players had their time and their influence. But undoubtedly, Ma Long stayed at the top for the longest. Factoring in other aspects, everyone has his/her own list of GOAT. FZD has the potential to supersede Ma Long because he rose to the top so early in age. But unfortunately...

professional goggles on the way. just more equipment sells. In a few years, there will be tacky vs non-tacky goggles lol

I have powerful FH loop, so people usually don't serve to my FH, except for occasional surprises. And my BH attack consistency really depends on my position, so being able to read the serve length is quite important to me. So I am planning to only focus on reading the ball placement next time I...

Although I don't have high quality loop/flicks, I attack a lot on service return too, as long as I am not out of position. Like you said, many serves are attackable. But when playing against people who serve long and short, left and right, I usually lose confidence and mess up a lot because I am...

I think I can read the spin most of the time, except for the occasional no toss illegal serves. It's just the arm motion right before hitting the ball. I know what to focus on. But for serve length and speed, I wasn't sure what I could focus on. Now I got something to work on.

Of course amateur level. Harimoto wouldn't come here and ask how to return Wang's serves right? XD So you would actually pay attention to where exactly the ball hits the table? not just by the feel of how fast the ball goes? I can give that a try. It sounds very different and will probably take...

My biggest problem is reading whether a serve is short or fast and long. When can you tell the ball placement? right after the paddle hits the ball? when the ball is crossing the net? For me, it's usually when the ball hits my side of the table, which is too late. I have to put most of my...

This will likely be Ma Long and Chen Meng's last competitive tournament. Hope both of them will play well and go far.

They were so excited after winning against Japan. The team lost some confidence as the result of losing 2 best players at the same time. Then 2028 will be the most stressful OG for the Chinese team, including players and coaches and executive staffs. Maybe it's time for other countries to rise...