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We've gone through this elsewhere too often but developing a better player is sometimes about selection, not about planning. And having the resources to invest in enhanced healthcare etc. is something some other countries do with their basketball or baseball teams, not their table tennis teams.

I disagree - the main thing is the investment in resources in China pales Europe or even the rest of the world including other Asian countries with the potential exceptions of Japan and South Korea. All the other stuff is not that different.

It's an issue to me because some coach decided to hail this guy as someone with the X-factor for beating the Chinese.

Someone, please remind what is good about playing like this again?

Picking up the non-racket leg is actually a sign that you aren't getting the right kind of weight transfer (well, if you aren't going from one leg to the other through the stroke) and is one of the reasons a coach I respect doesn't teach looping in terms of weight transfer.

They can reduce the quality after Weikert wins reelection.

Kewei Li is one of the few players in NA who has actually beaten Eugene (Zhen) Wang of Canada in a match. LPs rely on unpredictability and unfamiliarity so anything that contributes to that is appreciated. I just want a ball that plays consistently. Lower bounce helps my serve but the other...

The unbreakability is underestimated. It is really going to change the game.

Baal, you hit with Kewei Li, Viktor Subonj and Niraj Oak at your club. They also gave their opinions. Does it require Dima to show how silly those guys are? Guys who have never shown video on how they play yet repeatedly make silly statements not worth discussing?

I think so. China has managed to reduce the cost of many thing - TT Balls are no exception, and they didn't come up with the intellectual property for this. The re-branded ones will be close enough - V40 is cheaper for example, and I expect others to be more expensive but close. And once the...

Prices will exterminate the other balls. These balls are as cheap as 55 cents per ball.

Suds79, We are not professional athletes doing squats on a daily basis. If you want to play lower, do some exercises to develop quad strength (inner and outer) and get lower. If not, do your best and let it be by having a wider stance. People talk about getting lower as if it is the holy...

Sure, I wouldn't start anyone out on a Gergely Carbon or a Sardius or even a Timo Boll ALC. But I think this misses the point of the original post and also misses some subtleties about blade rubber interaction. And there is some stuff that it is easy to be mislead about in the absence of video...

Slow doesn't mean what you think it does. After all, I am not using traditional rubbers and I could very well be using a boosted version of H3 or Baracuda or what I am using right now. Slow means that the rubber is relatively linear and not so bouncy. I would be very good with speed glued...

Everyone was saying the same exact thing last time...

LGL already stated his terms in his speech: you had to seize the title, he was not going to give anyone a spot if they couldn't take it from those with a legacy of winning. What I don't understand is all the people who thought Xu Xin would not make the team, they seem to have totally...

I always shake my head at his stuff. At the level he plays, it's just another way of losing the point without admitting it.:confused:

They are not as unique as you might think though you may be right that my considerations are more in tune with a certain level of play. Think of why the CNT use Chinese rubber on the forehand. Even when I have used Yasaka Extra and T80 for example, if I was healthy, I would prefer IF-ALC with...

The funny thing is that the backhand I modeled the most (Henzell) doesn't consistently do this. I just prefer to get a feel for the whip in the shot and go from there, though what you describe if done with whip is the highest level of the shot.

I am sure that I could find pictures in my shot selection that look precisely like that Archo, so it doesn't tell me anything. That said, if you want to look at a good backhand loop, here is a good one to model. It's not the only way to approach the shot, and probably not my preferred way, but...