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Abe, You are also young. When you are young, many things are much easier to learn. IF you look at how the ball is rotating, you see it. Adults have a much harder time learning such things. Being able to see the spin on the ball is the most important thing by far and way. Trust me on this...

No need to apologize man. IT's your thread. Just get the right kind of video and let's get back on track.

I declare war on hijackers!

Today for me is unlikely to involve any actual table tennis. That said, I strongly recommend cherry juice to people who want to recover from a day of TT. It's done wonders for how my body feels. Today, I am likely to go see X-Men Apocalypse instead of play. Yesterday, I Went to the club to...

ttmonster, I am pretty defensive about how I play as well. The right kind of critic/coach hasn't pushed my buttons here for you to see it, that's all. I know most of the people criticizing me so I can put their comments in perspective. But even then, if someone gets to me about something I am...

The principle is to be ready by the time the ball bounces on the opponent's side to play the shots you intend to play against most of his responses. How exactly you achieve that is up to you. In the videos, Shuki is almost always square to the table ready to play a backhand or a forehand. MAny...

Here we go again, archo. Shuki's recovery vs. who is playing with is largely excellent. What are you talking about?

Come on buddy... someone is telling you something that if you understand it can improve your game. You just need to figure out what he is really saying and what you really need to get out of it.

Come on buddy... make a distinction between the serve motion and the recovery.

I wouldn't expect most people to serve any differently unless they have been taught how to serve by a good server. And since he cut the video to only include serves that were not missed, I can't tell whether he served some real backspin serves or not. IT might amaze you but I have seen better...

Multiball is usually how some people avoid this. That and hard training of course.

To post videos over 15 mins, you have to agree to something on youtube. I can't remember the process but that is all that is happening.

Stiga has made a spinny rubber????

How long is the whole video? And I don't mean the whole video, just the points is okay too. It might be file foremating as I have videos as long as 90 mins on youtube. Or maybe you haven't registered or done the things that permit you to put longer files on youtube.

One of the great things about TT is how so many people enjoy it no matter how bad or good they objectively are. Those of us who have pushed up the improvement cycle sometimes forget this. And we aren't professionals so enjoyment always comes first. So I think Andy's classification of the...

I think you've done pretty well. I wish I had the last video to see if I was overthinking this but the back to forth motion of the wrist looks much better and the arm on the whole feels much more relaxed as I watch it. How do you feel? The backhand looks much better. The forehand could do...

I would argue that it is really more about changing from a results driven mindset to a mindset that rewards hard work and process mostly and results secondarily. Once you praise people too much for how well they do as opposed to how much effort they put in or how they do it, you are setting up...

Tony, in anything this complicated, you know that there are a lot of hidden and emotional assumptions underlying any argument. Feng Tianwei for example speaks about the attention and good that her bronze medal did for her and the sport as it was only the second Olympic medal in their history...

Tony, The standards are not the same for every country. But if only China is winning the medals, then no one else is really investing in the sport. And while you may not agree, other countries winning medals and China getting shut out is healthy for the sport even if only in the short term...

No, you didn't say anything wrong. I was complimenting you. I think any disagreement you get from a player over 2000 USATT around you would be relative and not absolute - I would go as low as 1800 and I am pretty surprised that anyone around you would disagree - they may not be as aggressive...