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Oh Playing with myself... Oh Playing with myself... When there's nothing to lose, And there's nothing to prove.. I'll be playing with myself...

Yes, the point is not that the feet should not move - they almost always do. The point is that if you think of the first move as turning your shoulders, it is very hard to be in a position where you do not swing at the ball with a reasonable stroke.

Yesterday evening, I had a troubling experience. I forgot my rackets at home despite showing up with the rest of my coaching gear ( had something to do with my cleaning lady). I was lent a racket by a friend - it happened to be the racket of a friend who was now in Vegas. And who bought the...

Here is the most recent US Open hard bat final:

Just noting for the record...

Really....

If we want to get that technical, why talk about rotating a joint? You should be rotating the bones that meet at the joint...

For backhands, this is generally accepted. I guess because I had my issues with moving, I played out of an extreme backhand stance but my real issue as I figured out later in part thanks to Larry's blog was that I wasn't pointing my feet outwards and staying on the balls of my feet. but the...

Depends on how you define "amateur". I always wanted to play like a pro but my coach wanted me to play like an amateur, quite correctly because I didn't want to bend my knees as much, but quite wrongly because the real issue was I didn't point my feet outwards enough. The most important thing...

There is no one-size fits all to table tennis - there are generally accepted ways of doing things and wrong ways of doing things in the context of shot quality. But there is no single way to do something right - each technique comes with advantages and disadvantages and are tied to the goals of...

So how would you respond to this? http://www.samsondubina.com/coaching/stance

Archo, thanks, but I have this. What you are saying is precisely correct.

Yes, but very often, you may have to play a forehand topspin before the feet are ideally set. If you have to do this, which foot should be where first?

Yes. And if for some reason they don't, which is semi impossible without some defect, the position of the shoulders is the best indicator for how much you can bring into the shot. In fact, when Brett was here, he kept on telling us that even before moving for a ball, once you intend to play a...

I object to this - I think you understate my role in ignoring certain assassinations of my character..... that said, I will give you nine points. Your problem is that you will also give me 9 so we are even.

True, but the best measure of the degree of rotation of the core is the degree of turn in the shoulders. Try it out if you are still a skeptic.

It's a Chinese secret... but you have to wait for the part that applies to shakehanders...

I agree. The issue with serving is that when you have the wrong form, there is a painful rebuild to get the right stuff in place. I Want to get him to do the right serving form first with whip pattern and timing. When he has those things, fixing the serve quality etc. is straightforward. But...

PRobably a little similar to how I think people who don't bend their knees should loop.

I didn't say I had the heaviest backspin serve in the state of PA for nothing... but yes, I can do stuff like that fairly consistently. That's why I don't think that serve pattern is about talent. Anytime I hear someone is even trying to mimic it, or I am coaching someone to use it, their...