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You will be, you just have to be around the right people (you already have one) and change your approach to how you hit the ball. I used to wonder myself how I would ever get good at table tennis and what miracle would be required for me to break 2000. Keep that in mind when you are saying...

I can't see the disagreement. I made very specific points and you are agreeing with many of them, but using different words to describe them. OVer 75% of your post discusses the pro level and that is far higher than the 2250+ level at which the article I posted a link to says footwork is...

No, it is not. If you have the right background in the basics of statistical variation, it is not. And it is fair for all the footwork that those guys have been through, or we would see Ma Long and Wang Liqin having Fan Zhendong thighs and Zhang Jike thighs, and they clearly do not. But I...

What you just wrote brings to mind an important thing my national coach friend (I am referring to Brett, if it isn't obvious) said: "Good coaches can disagree." So it is possible to get another coach with a different perspective on the same issue talking sense. But the problem is when everyone...

Happy you got it, instead of assuming I was posting it because I can only move one arm and half a leg.

SugaD is obviously in a grumpy mood today. At this level, it makes the most difference because what they struggle with the most is not what kind of spin is on the ball, but how much spin is on the ball. And this two-toned ball reduces the effectiveness of no-spin and backspin high toss serves...

Why the assumption that I am trying to view things from my own perspective, especially when I am the only one who posted a paper from an expert in table tennis to substantiate his view? And maybe others can talk about the national level coaches they have discussed this with? Or because maybe...

Two toned ball kills service advantage. That explains a lot...

Usually, the level of player who needs to work out to improve in table tennis has players around him who can give good advice on such stuff. Most players asking these questions are better off just getting better at table tennis. The shadow drills you presented are pretty important and are...

Let me play the Grinch in another way - if he won the match 3-0 playing that way, then I am impressed. Otherwise, it is just another random highlight that we all ooh and ahh at that will be as remembered as Patrick Chila is in a few years.

Why so serious??

This is so deep I don't get the point. Well done.

If you are over 2000, sure. If not, good luck with that. http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/18114663/1288823123/name/champion_physical_training.pdf

Here is one of my favorite looping videos. You can see how late I am taking the ball and how relaxed I am. I also have videos where I take the ball earlier (vs Brockington, for example). But I tell adults all the time that if they can't loop like this, they will be under pressure all the time...

Watch the video that Carl referred you to. Watch it carefully. It explains the seduction if cookie cutter training. But it also explains why the skills don't translate to matches quickly. One of the things I have to do as a coach is get people comfortable with training ugly. They get...

The best exercise to improve table tennis is more table tennis.

You just have to learn to stop dropping the paddle after you play the first/opening loop. Most pros stay low and lean forward so even their adjustments to their swings to go back to front look like they are swinging from down to up. Your paddle will always go up if you finish at your...

Have you ever tried to swing at a ball in a way that you have never swung at it before under pressure? Have you ever tried to greet your girlfriend in a way that you have never greeted her before? We are creatures of habits. Changing habits is hard. You go up 2-0 in a game playing a certain...

Why leave TT when Patrick Chila and Adrien Mattenet and lots of other Frenchmen still play? Xu Xin is entertaining. Ouaiche is a sinner.