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Compared to what you previously used, grasshopper. Compared to what you previously used. Otherwise, you will picking up your jaw if you play with Tenergy 05 or Evolution MX-S.

So don't get me wrong, anchorschmidt - are there things you can do to improve this loop? Yes. You could always get lower etc. Is this loop as is going to be a major issue for your improvement? No. IF you practiced adjusting this loop to backspin, no spin, sidespin, pip balls etc., then you...

What causes the edge balls is where you aim to make contact on the ball and that has nothing to do with the backswing. If your forward swing plane is to go over the top of the ball with closed racket, you will have too many edges etc. What most better players do and what it looks like you are...

End of discussion.

Why are you trying to fix something that is correct?

If you do study those things, especially business, and you can't tell that you are spouting a lot of BS, your only excuse is your youth. When I say study, I don't mean read books. I mean actually do things as a practitioner. That said, let's not ruin knife's thread with another archo trial.

I am sure that if archo had to write that POS again based on what he had learned at TTD, some of it would go into the trash but because of his misguided sense of brilliance, many dangerous elements would remain. If I ever met archo, I would strictly give him those slow spinny loops that get...

For people who don't know, here was archo's first post on ooakforum, after watching my strokes and reading my attempt to coach someone to improve his forehand. As ttmonster is pointing out, some of this is clearly insecurity as he feels confident enough to speak about things he has never really...

This is what people who ruin the world with the lack of experience often say. It's probably the reason why you study philosophy and not something serious like engineering or science or business.

In general, the secret to stroke stability in table tennis is always elbow positioning - what you are struggling with is probably a combination of having the elbow too close to the body and it causing you to reach forward for leverage and weakening your stroke overall. Elbow position always...

I think What causes your old stroke to put stress on the shoulder is that you probably reach out too far to the ball when doing it. In general, a helpful tip Brett gave me when I analyzed someone's backhand with pips that I should have remembered from my own history with the backhand is that...

Even stomping while hitting the ball is annoying, especially when it is an unnatural stomp. On serves, the rules allow it. After that, it is umpire judgement. There is a guy who I play at tournaments who stomps when hitting the ball and he knows I will call him out on it so to his credit, he...

Must have been during speed glue era. The larger point is pretty valid.

Since you have the rubber on one side already, you can simply turn your racket over and play with it for a while. While I haven't used Rising Dragon, I have used hard rubbers on both sides before. I believe that equipment issues are personal. The bad (softer) plastic balls often require me to...

He came out of lurking to post that...

THe thing is that at the highest levels, all they are often doing is playing with fast heavy spin and their athleticism allows them to generate so much power that they can spin the ball heavy and fast. Us amateurs can't do that so we gave to settle for slow heavy spin. But if people knew how...

It's not about swinging too hard - it is about learning the right contact and mechanics for generating spin and stressing the rubber to its limits. As you get better, you have to learn to stress the combination of rubber and wood to its limits. If you can't create that friction with thin and...

I think it is clear that OP is trolling and is pushing his leash on charitable interpretation to its limits.

It's his relative inexperience. He hasn't played long enough to be able to read spin off people's strokes and the ball trajectory. So he misses a lot of balls in matches by not adjusting his stroke to them. The other things that hold him back are minor compared to that. Part of the reason I...

So the World #7 plays the world #5 (who he has a superior head to head score vs) better than the World #35 plays the world #5 and you think it is technical as opposed to being about the relative levels? Again, you don't have the same problem as a World Class player playing an even stronger...