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The philosophy for looping with harder sponges and tacky rubbers is slightly different. There, you have to loop drive and because the catapult is relatively hard to get, you will get more spin and speed over a wider range of hard impacts than you will with softer sponged Euro rubbers. The...

It's not so much about energy but about how the contact point on a ball for a loop changes when it is on the rise, at the top of the bounce and on the fall. It is easier to show with pictures, but it is also the reason why you can push a ball with a relatively closed paddle if you take it off...

What about Tenergy 64 did you like and not like and why are trying to replace it? This will help with suggestions.

You can't make this thread up, it reminds me of the first custom racket I bought. I went to paddle palace and looked for their highest speed and spin rubbers with a low price and a cheap offensive racket. No discussions with anyone. I bought a Ma Lin Extra Offensive with Juic 999 Turbo for...

Same here.

Guys, the fact that the loop drives have higher rotations per second is not news and in fact Hurricane is a relatively slow rubber. The fact that it is the spin to speed ratio for slower balls that is higher is not news and this is how serves or sidespin loops get their best curves. In the...

Yesterday was a glorious day. Yes, I lost more matches than I won but I beat the 2200+ junior in my club in club matches after having quite a few close 3-2 matches recently. I did lose to a lefty (we split matches 1-1), but the good thing about him is that I need someone to play so I can track...

Watching the whole match, now I see why you think you played well, and you did. There is still stuff to work on, but the best part of the match for me is 22:57 to the end. The technique wasn't perfect, but I try to teach people that combination at your level all the time time (slow spin, get...

Interesting you say that. In this video though, the focus was on getting my elbow high. It's quite possibly that my wrist was slower than usual, but I didn't see that in the spin of the serves. In any case, it will be interesting to see where this all ends - are you playing Butterfly this year?

One day, Archo may find a real table tennis club. Then he may have millions of questions which he will have to pay a coach to learn the right answers too. Then he will remember a time when he was actually around players who were giving him these answers for free. And he will remember his...

Coaching people who can't generate racket head speed is one of the hardest things you can do in table tennis.

Thanks. I work with Brett Clarke on my serves. He has a really amazing bunch of serves and he is very much into technical detail when performing a serve - the pattern of the swing has to be right, the elbow position has to be on point etc. He just things my elbow position is subpar. That...

I am still working through my serving issues but in any case, part of what makes backspin and no spin effective on short fast serves (the double bounce short but almost half-long variety) is that most decisions to push short are made before the serve is done. So having a heavy backspin serve...

Thanks for this. Unfortunately, I didn't record the matches where this happened, though I feel that I improved the stroke a little in the second set of loops for that. But I think you are right that I should work even harder on getting my backswing even higher. I have serious counterlooping...

The 3rd alternative is to learn to ask questions in a way that shows an understanding of your level of TT. In fact, when playing better players or watching them or interacting with them, it is almost a waste of time to do anything other than ask questions. Pick their brains, enjoy yourself...

If you don't like it, you can always go back.

Many people I play are not my peers (as a Blue belt, I enjoy beating up on White and Yellow Belts). That said, if those are the people you are comparing me to, I agree. I would just say "most of your opponents" as many of my peers actually have pretty good pendulum serves.

Pgpg, nukeskywalker... where are you....

Voltron... Okay. I need to get back to playing in the Lily Yip league...

How many of you peers have you played or watched to make that kind of statement?