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I agree. When I coach a player who is weaker vs a stronger player, I don't even bother with tactics or footwork per se. All I stress is proper attacking table tennis and a relaxed mindset. Proper table tennis is to look for the first opening, play the ball outside the power zones and test...

What they mean when they say deception is more important than spin is that sometimes, you can generate a lot of spin but if it is obvious, the returner might compensate easily for it. It doesn't mean that the serves are not very spinny - they clearly are. But in this case, it is more a light...

Some of them do have a backspin orientation. There is one earlier but the one at 2:24 is pretty strong. The trick is that you can still serve heavy side backspin with a vertical looking paddle if you know what you are doing. Anyone with the TTEdge app can see signs of what is possible with...

The opponents I hate playing most are the power loopers with heavy spin and pace. It's just annoying to deal with heavy topspin balls relentlessly making me move and block long. I like it when the ball slows down as my knees and my mobility are not as heavily challenged.

I tell people all the time - I built my 3rd ball skills by practicing against beginners not by practicing against better players. The next step is to develop some serves that even better players will return passively and then you can use some of those shots.

Maybe the backhand tomahawk. But even then, it is easier to get good spin on those serves than the reverse pendulum. Many pros don't do the reverse even when they are competent because they don't like the amount of spin they get.

You still have work to do pulling under the ball. You seem to want to mimic an advanced player swing but in all honesty, and don't take this the wrong way, you need to appreciate where you are in the process and reduce the moving parts to the absolute minimum. You are combining a lot of things...

The outermost ply is a soft Anigre. Not sure about the inner plies.

There was even a rematch. The pips and aspects of this 2300 guy's game are under rated. A two winged attacking looper would likely do much better against him because he would probably make the guy back up and chop more often. But our weird guy blocks too much to challenge him and the pips...

Sure. And I believe some kids will not be able to if they do the same either. If we pick 10 random kids, my opinion is that less than 5 will do it. People underestimate the importance of reading and creating tricky spins in this game. It is not trivial.

2801 out of how many registered players? Are there more players below or above him? If you coach people, you will realize that people who tend to play and train are the ones that don't give up and love the sport. And many of them do not break 1800, talk less of 2200. I am not posting for...

Mark hits - he doesn't loop.

MB has basically moved all over to his forehand side to cover your wide serve and you serve nothing down the line to keep him honest - really? EDIT: I see you focused on a particular play.

You can look at WLQ's ranking and the events he participated in over the same period. He was not in the Olympics, for example, though he was the #1 player. I am actually going back as far as 1987. Chen Yinghua said he used to beat Jiang Jialiang in practice very often - the best Chinese...

Men, you are already outdated. There is this kid called FZD who has the backhand to end all backhands... Kreanga has a special talent for having two forehands with power and consistency but I wouldn't be going around teaching his technique... FZD's technique is the one I would teach if asked...

Whenever someone says this, I say to my head: "Forehand player."

I have avoided the topic until now because I consider it a waste of time usually and the player I would pick is Ma Long. People should note that there was a period in China where they had good/strong shakehand inverted loopers but kept them under wraps. Wang Liqin actually was also held back...

Two ways to sucker me - Butterfly marketing hype on rubbers (Tenergy) or Nexy marketing hype on rubbers(Karis). Blades tend to be too expensive for the hype to fool me. Elpis didn't have any hype so I missed it (Chinese rubber, low price). I reviewed the OLAM so I could use that - on the...

Big Fatty beats Little Fatty - or is it the other way round?

I doubt he used it in Rio.