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This is partly true but I think a huge part of it is also that lots of popular TT instruction focuses on looping and very little focuses on serving. The hours spent matter but if you don't have someone to guide you on what you are trying to do, it can be frustrating or you can just be putting...

It might sound weird or obsessive, but that is why recording yourself from the perspective of the receiver when you serve is critical. Other wise, you really have no clue how deceptive your serves are.

They are all valid approaches, but some are easier to push than others and the sales job is very critical. The other thing that is critical is your backspin serve. If people don't fear your backspin serve, your no spin serve will not draw many errors. Pushing heavy backspin with a chopping...

Brett actually asked me to watch his no-spin serve once and confirm that it was light topspin. On no-spin, I used to brush the ball, but I realized that the most effective no-spin comes from hitting the ball. I don't foot stomp so you can hear the hit, but I don't serve no-spin often either vs...

Good stuff. Come round the sidetop the ball more earlier in the motion while still hitting the ball straight. You will need this contact point for looping heavy spin. IT's what the pros do, what you are doing right now won't get it done against heavy spin under pressure. The analogy I like to...

ttmonster, Only because you asked. DerEchte is there and can help you far more in person. You and Sandy both have advanced games and the issues that will be there will be hard to identify over camera. You were playing a legitimate 2000 level player with a hard to read game. You both often...

Very well said.

People let their dislike of Niwa spill over into their general evaluation of him. He still probably has the highest level serve and return game in Japan.

The camera angle is bad but all I can see is the timing and probably following through with the elbow more than necessary. Some other things are not how I would do them but who am I?

Your BH topspin issues are what they are (they are really about elbow positioning relative to the ball and taking it too far in front of you), but if DerEchte is generating backspin on your no spin with a push (as opposed to a heavy chop into the ball), then your no-spin serve is heavier than...

Your spin looks fine to me, but I guess the person who blocked you knows best. Chinese rubbers can reduce your ball quality though, people think they help give better spin but it is so far from the truth, the players I block their balls into the net the most are those that use Chinese rubbers...

There is really no need to defend DerEchte. You've seen Takkyu play and know his TT history so you know the perspective from which he makes these comments, just as you know the perspective from which you make yours.

Hirano win 11-6 in the 6th. Ishikawa now has homework!

Hirano up 3-1, 8-2 or something like that and ends up losing 9-11 in that game. Will Ishikawa come back?

Different thread: https://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?14712-West-Coast-Bay-area-Goon-Squad-meetup

Mizutani was down 0-2 to Hirano but seems to be coming back...

Many defenders don't consider Filus a defender - he is an attacker who sometimes chops on backhand and uses pips in their view. And Joo has a level limitation - his teammates usually beat him easily.

I enjoy hearing from people their impression of other people's games. Waiting for DerEchte to describe ttmonster's game and vice versa.

DerEcthe laying a smackdown on the California posse (with whom he will soon be assimilated.) Can you please describe the event, ttmonster? What was it like to face a Rambo loop third ball? And DE, how did it feel to face those bad loops (Archos said it not me) that were monstrous in nature?

It's not true????:p This is the only relevant thing you have said. But the human mind feels the need to persuade instead of look at facts...