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Arrgggh... can't edit... You can also keep your current blade... your real issues have to do with unfocused technique and soft contact. Your strokes are not punchy - they are more like love taps.You don't push your elbow through your power strokes so you are left with floppy light wrist and...

Get a Tibhar Stratus Powerwood and use that until you are closer to 2000.

I have always wondered about this - why does the server always have to wait for the returner to be ready, even if the returner is taking a ridiculous amount of time? Shouldn't there be a maximum time between points for umpired matches at least? Or will that just cause trouble as another...

Can you feel it, Can you feel it, Can you feel it!!!

The ITTF already allows booster oils. They just ban them because they want to make money of people who follow the rules and buy new Tenergy rubbers every month.

I used to think this shot was impossibly difficult. But having worked on shoulder rotation while moving with my forehand, I can see how the right backswing feeds into this kind of stuff as well as the fact that many table tennis players are used to hitting the ball without looking at it. It's...

Casting pearls of wisdom at swine...

I think people are overestimating what it means as a post. The advantage Der_Echte has is that he speaks two table tennis crazy languages well enough to follow the technical videos of high level players like Werner Schlager and Kim Jung Hoon. Part of the reason I post so much video is that the...

You are being assimilated, my friend.

With Xu Xin, I think the Chinese withdrew him to give Fan more international experience. They have done this kind of thing a lot in the past - there are strong rumors that ZJK has always wanted to play every World Cup he was eligible for as WTTC Champ.

Germans seem to be pretty sore about Kallberg getting the wildcard over Timo Boll. Just saying.

It's like learning to play short pips or long pips - you tell people all these things but you can't really do it or understand it until you can do it repeatedly. If I understood it the way you do, I would serve the way you do. You've always talked about Rich's hand pressure - we never...

The Dark Side is a powerful force... sometimes, you just have to yield to it...

Exactly - that lets you know that you made spin contact even if you didn't make the shot. Now while I am not looping against a heavy backspin ball (the balls I am looping are closer to no-spin), here is a video I made to help SchemeSC on another site think about putting spin on the ball rather...

Watching the ball is to use your eyes to track the ball when tossed. Watching the racket is to keep your focus on the racket even when the ball is tossed upwards and shifting to the ball upon impact. Even when someone is doing deceptive stuff with the racket, the most important thing is to...

You again have failed to define what you mean by "matching the spin". Define "matching the spin" in any response you want to make going forward. Then, we will use your definition to interpret your response. On why you are clearly killing the spin, let's try again - you may not realize that...

I actually disagree on watching the ball - I think watching the ball is actually a waste of time until after it is struck. And if you only watch the ball, you will be unable to take the ball early when the spin is obvious. Start by watching the racket because at some point the ball is going to...

Most people grip their rackets too tightly anyways. In general, the thing is that accelerating the racket with the wrist tends to force that grip pressure change anyways or the racket wobbles too much in your hand. Swinging at a more even pace doesn't wobble the racket as much. On your...

I've always considered that guy the person that Pnatchwey and AgentHex wished they were.

I think I do that naturally because if you practice serving a lot, it comes to you as you look for ways of generating more spin, but the more interesting part for me is the effect of *not doing it* and being able to control that effect. And to know the situations where you run the risk of your...