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Not sure why people say that. He played two ITTF events last year and didn't blaze any trails. MAybe he will try more this year?

Not necessarily true - some people have real technical errors in warmup loop that you need to isolate.

For some reason, the way ITTF politics works, I don't think he has a chance. I say this not because I know anything about ITTF politics, but because I know about chess politics and FIDE officials have bribed so many small nations that it is hard to get those smaller nations to vote for good...

The kids are totally different. 7-12, most of your focus is on keeping their extremely short attention span with competitions. You also will probably be coaching for half an hour and playing games for half an hour. What you do is that you use the games a carrot or stick - if they do well in...

Usually, you get better commentary if you talk about what you are trying to do. At our level, everyone's game has weaknesses. A lot of where you want to take your game depends on what you are trying to do. Me, I am always trying to get an advantage on serve and serve return and shorten the...

Your loop is fine. Don't chase your tail. The only thing I would change is that you hit the ball where most people say you should hit it while I would try to hit the ball closer to the end of the backswing. You are also hitting the loop in autopilot when you should be trying to wait for the...

I like your game a lot. You did play pretty well - why did you feel differently? Good basic strokes both sides - there is room for technical improvement but that is true for everyone and there isn't anything really wrong with your technique. I am probably watching a different match from what...

The most important things are to encourage proper technique while playing lots of games (not matches but games like target practice or hitting twenty forehands in a row or even five and having fun). If the kids don't have some fun you won't keep their attention unless their parents want you to...

How old are the kids? Very important.

Step 1: Remove those hard chinese rubbers from your paddle. Step 2: Just loop as if you are massaging your wife's back.

In TT, you sometimes need to solve the problems at your level before you start taking things to the next level. That said, I wonder what you mean sometimes when you say more body. Here is one of the best third ball attackers in the USA (neon yellow/green). Does he use more body than I do...

Well, I am physically stronger than you are Archosaurus. That matters a lot. In terms of using body, people have all kinds of misconceptions but the only use of the body when serving in terms of the quality of the serve ( as opposed to the consistency or the recovery) is how much you use it to...

Thank DerEchte. I used to be clueless about serving pips players and would mostly serve them no spin and then attack the third ball. The funniest thing is that even when I had bad serves, my only real deceptive serve was my backspin nospin serve. It worked but then the better pips players...

Gotta stick to structurally sound table tennis when playing the better players. Serve mostly short, play for first attack, and try to make sure his first attack comes from his weaker side (usually backhand from backhand side but depending on player, might be forehand from wide forehand side)...

For people who want to know the answer: http://ooakforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28641&p=325072#p325072 For people who don't want to but want to guess, keep posting.

What is wrong with this pendulum serve? How do I fix it?

There is a point to it but it of course depends on how well you pushed your opponent and whether you found a stable strategy you can do well with if you execute it more consistently.

The analysis is thoughtful. The thing though is that you have to be sure your technique is right. Sometimes, bad technique places too much pressure on your game. I have seen many people say this or that is a problem but when I fixed their technique, the problem miraculously went away at their...

The one thing I try to tell my students who use robots is that they have to record themselves. Even if just for a minute with their cellphone, they need to look at what they are doing and make corrections. Unfortunately, it is hard to get them to listen. It is easy to continue to make...

The thing is that Archo has a point - he is just making it really badly. You can't complain about what makes a player's level his level. If a player is at his level because he has tricky serves and you struggle with them, some people use that to say that the player's level is not high - it is...