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This is incorrect - when looping backspin, the looper has to go with the spin as well. This is why spinning up balls with backspin creates balls with extremely heavy topspin (they add to the incoming backspin to get heavier topspin). It is if the looper chooses to loop backspin by going...

Yes. Always compete to get a realistic assessment of your strengths and weaknesses.

If you read the full source article, Timo Boll made some very powerful points. I summarize: 1. He can't get the rubbers that the Chinese team uses in commercial stores. 2. He uses rubbers that are 100% commercially available in commercial stores (he has said this before in other contexts but...

I remember playing a lower rated player I train with fairly frequently - maybe 150 pts difference, not an incredible gap. So he is getting closer and closer to getting his first win. And one time, he is up like 2-1, 5-2 or 6-2 and then I change tactics and take spin off my stroke and he...

I use Tenergy 05, BS version - and you all know what BS really stands for...

Kreanga - it won't even be close.

These tools are not new - these things are just becoming more commonly known and put on video tape and shared on youtube. Think about it - isn't this the same general idea as the golf forehand topspin? Or resistance training for tennis?

Wow, Mima Ito is signing T-shirts already. She is now a vet!

You must mean the finals.

Those are great questions. 2.0 MX-P weights the same as 2.1 T05. So maybe I could get more spin using MX-P max. Must try this sometime if I can handle the weight ;). It's a bit of a throw and backspin attack thing. While T05 shoots out the ball more, there are those times when you feel...

Exactly - he didn't even try. A friend feels that he could tell ZJK wasn't trying after the first 3 points and that if ZJK was playing Timo Boll or a non-Chinese, he would have played much harder. But I think in any case, it all comes down to the injury.

Wow - this is terrible news for me after I just went back to Tenergy 05... :(

Yes, and that's because losing is a big deal to ML. So the big deal influences how he plays. Like I said, if he lost more often, we would all make a smaller deal out of it, and so would he probably.

I got what he was saying, I was saying that as much as we all called Ma Long a choker and there is evidence of a damaged mental game, it was his consistency elsewhere that brought that upon him. WLQ for example never won a World cup or made an Olympic singles final. But no one would call him a...

I honestly don't know if ZJK is clearly better. It is partly the standards that Ma Long has to live up to that cause that impression, IMO. When you win everywhere else but not the big ones, people call you a choker. But ZJK wasn't winning anywhere else but the big ones and he became a big...

Can anyone even say that Dima played better than Groth in his last two matches vs Ma Long?

People don't get it (not speaking to you, Giangt). JG made the main draw of the German Open. Look at Par Gerrell's blog if you don't see that his loss to Ma Long doesn't mean anything. Ma Long is simply an excellent frontrunner like Federer in his prime. You have to shake him early or you...

Looks like Timo would crush them with his right hand though...

Yes, and footwork last, strokes first, unless the movement and balance is so bad that the person just needs to have their legs broken and refitted.

The best part of this video is having an idea of the ratings of the opposition (many 2200-2600 USATT) and seeing their faces when he wins the point. He reminds me of every time a 1400 or less player plays a shot against me or blocks my killer loop and I am like "Damn, he did that. Effing...