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Here is my advice. You already have a coach. There are no shortcuts in this game. It took me about a year and a half or training with two good coaches to break 1700, and I was probably 800-1000 when I started. Pick any blade or rubber you want, work with your coach, video yourself and look...

Finally, to get good feedback, you need to post video. General advice helps, but may never address the real issue.

Samson Dubina wrote a blog post recently that seemed like a direct response to a thread that David Song started here. While we dealt mostly on cognitive skills and anticipation, Dubina argued (quite correctly as I have said similar things in the past under the influence of the coach that got me...

Nah. It is something I am working on but think about it. I have put a slow push to the middle of the table. I know the ball is weak but I have to be ready to defend. You load up for a power stroke. Up until this point, you haven't made a single noise. Then you torque into the ball and...

Gotta hand it to Butterfly though. They discontinued a classic blade (Innerforce ZLC), raised the price and renamed it the Tiago Appolonia ZLC, and created a piece of crap called the Inner Layer ZLC for people who will spend money without ever figuring out what they did. That's why we all love...

Keenan, Great work. Did you consider playing in the Nationals? Did practice against pips or heavy backspin feature into any part of your training?

Which is why pro players complain about camera flashes and loud noises. But seriously, it all depends on what you train against. Auditory cues are part of TT and having someone grunt out my cue to time the ball inconsistently has the effect of throwing me off when he does it.

If you like a rubber, you can use it on any blade that fits your style. If you like a blade, you cab use it with any rubber that fits your style. The idea that certain rubbers only go with certain blades is nonsense. The first question is always your style and what fits that style. And even...

Sure. What's your point? That I can't be distracted by or should not be distracted by irregular behavior? If they want to grunt, grunt all the time including service.

The simplest way to return that serve (even if a little passive) is with a backhand push as the backhand naturally touches the left side of the ball. Otherwise, you need to push with your forehand contacting the left side of the ball. If you learn to create angles that stop the spin in general...

Do you play the TTEdge app? That and practicing some serve return strokes should help.

I am being facetious, but it really pisses me off when I am playing a point and suddenly, I get a grunt during a power shot from my opponent and lose my timing and ability to track the ball off auditory cues.

Practice makes perfect.

To hide the sound of their contact and throw off the opponent. Grunting should be banned, IMO.

Travelling so I won't be playing TT till Wednesday or Thursday evening. Did some coaching and practicing today. Here is an interesting point from yesterday. The old man is fast: https://youtu.be/NRH4oloV7jQ?t=492

We were not matched up - we were going to play league matches in about 25 minutes (the league was delayed 15 mins so we hit longer than we expected to). He needed someone to hit with and I needed to get into match ready shape. So we spent time making sure that we had broken a sweat before we...

Got coaching and then played league yesterday night - went 4-1. Lost to a medium pips guy that I am on a losing cycle with. Will fix it eventually but it is annoying. Here is my hit session with a lower rated player. Hopefully, Luis will see my alternative stroke and get an idea of how I...

Feeding multiball improves stroke technique and this is not that different. The most important thing is to work on elements of your form and to record yourself. IF you know what you are trying to achieve, the exercise helps. Ball timing can be fully learned in other contexts. Does getting...

As an EJ, here are some of my thoughts: Tenergy 05 is not as fast a rubber as some people think. IF you want to use an all wood blade slower than OFF-, I suspect that most 1600+ people will prefer to use T80 or T64 on such blades. That said, I think that what usually first causes the issue...

Just about any wood blade beats any composite blade, though the slower the wood blade in the beginning the better. One problem is that the faster wood blades are thicker, so compromises have to be found between comfort and speed. That said, the lack of speed is not bad as it is part of the...