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You can play both and have fun. There is no reason why. I tell my students that I have switched grips enough times to know that it is not as suicidal as some think if you just have fun for a while and learn.

I achieved some of my best tournament performances with all round blades. I used an Appelgren AR Exclusive when I beat a 2100+ short pips hitter with lefty illegal serves. There are many good cheap blades out there. Go to colestt.com and get something in your budget.

The video is beautifully inspirational. I don't think I have gotten as excited watching someone loop before. When you see me practice looping going forward, you know my inspiration.

Wow - I had no clue that was Korbel - the title just said so and I didn't read it. ;) Give me a break...

Here is another guy that a coach I like proposed as a model. This is going to be how I want my strokes to look like going forward (accounting for my bad knees and less physicality, of course). The level of relaxation is just oozing from his body:

Despite what I said earlier, she is worth learning from:

I agree with everything except the last line. The thread gives him somewhere to pollute where he can be seemingly contained. Famous last words, eh?;)

It's only bothersome and tiring if you even attend to it. Pnatchwey is now the world's foremost expert on the ARB!

As my favorite TT video once said, do you win style points like in figure skating? There are some people who call Timo Boll or Mizutani or even Michael Maze's technique ugly and a chicken-wing forehand. So for me, style is in the eye of the beholder - give me points!

German national team practice session...

This has to be filed under any publicity is good publicity.

Or Karakasevic, who you often list as well. But the problem in part also is that people want to be like the current #1. And it is more exciting to loop like Ma Long or backhand loop like Kreanga than it is to loop like Perrson or backhand loop like Waldner. And Waldner is outdated mostly...

Sorry, Marc. I think I have a strong backhand but next to your cannon, mine is a water pistol. You had better go ask Ovtcharov for his cannon or some 2400 level junior.

I guess it is a matter of context. Most people who ask these questions train in environments where it is hard to access the right kind of information to do it properly. If you can, by all means, go ahead. After all, something like this is what people were doing before information on proper TT...

Ah, our apologies. So what's the latest with your blade? Any pictures to share?

What was the guy who beat you's name?

Travelling outta town next week so I had to start prepping early. Tried to reach you. Good to hear it was all good.

Against a healthy Zhang Jike, everyone's else's feet look like they are in slow motion.

With the plastic ball and even before, sometimes, you have to hit into the ball more - the pros sometimes make a cracking sound. It's just that there is a feel of spinning that you have to find and once you find it, it can sometimes feel like you are cracking into the ball when driving it, but...

OK - let me post a few links to help aid this discussion: Here is the result of my latest training. Here is a guy who calls his serve a tomahawk. I think what I am doing is often exactly what he is doing but with a different racket trajectory per Brett's instruction. Here is a match...