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Great post, but you weren't disagreeing with anything I said. Part of the disconnect, and I have to stress this, is that my posts are usually directed to adults who are learning the game and not people who were lucky enough to drill and train for hours as children - children need to learn...

Thanks for the kind words. Let me take the opportunity to add a few things for Liten about the players. By the way, that is one of Alex "Breaking 2000" Polyakov's best wins. Wetzler is the current VICE-state champ of PA and I think he might have won last year, though we sometimes get the odd...

Since just about every expert player here is unable to grasp what you are saying, they are either all stupid or you are just a compound, stubborn fool. You probably don't realize that it is possible to hit/smash backspin, but if you did, then you might actually get a better idea of what your...

I'm not surprised no, because I watch myself a lot. Movement in the sport is more than a little overrated at the lower levels. The reason better players do is is because their opponents force them to move. Also, they have played a lot and trained a lot of footwork so they know where to move...

Join the club...

Tournament will probably end too late for me to hop over, more so because I am not coming alone. Will do it some other time.

Ah, so that's where PNatchwey gets his inspiration - The Princess Bride - he thinks I (or we) committed a crime against his family! Meet the real Pnatchwey and see why our arguments have no effect on him!

The Korean flavor was perfect.

All I will say is that I need to be forced to avoid anyone's backhand. My game is about inviting a backhand battle. The way you make me avoid your BH is to go down the line. Otherwise, I will go to your backhand and exchange with impunity. Pushing to anyone's backhand can be suicidal - it...

Will be at the NYISC tournament tomorrow - will definitely see 42andbackpains. Can Carl make a special guest appearance?

He also pays many of them too, including the coaches who he says tell him he has good serves.

I fully agree. In fact, I like to say that if you don't have a good stroke, don't teach it. I have seen 2400 players get help on a specific stroke from a 1500 player because that 1500 player had excellent technique that was taught to them by a 2700 player (second or third hand but you get the...

I used to be a ball slapper - in fact, the juniors I play against used to make fun of my forehand. They had all these spinny loops and I would slap the ball with my blocks. Then the time came when it was too hard to slap spinny loops. It's been hard trying to learn to counterloop with crappy...

When you learn as an adult as after playing basement for years as a kid, your game has to be crap in one way or another - just saying.

As you get better, you will find that you can create a similar trajectory with any rubber - as loops become more advanced, they tend to have more sidespin or corkscrew spin anyway and this keeps the loop at relatively the same height. Also loop drives tend to have different arcs, but there is...

5 out of 5 rating for Big Dipper This is truly an excellent rubber. I use it in the softest sponge available though I have tried the harder sponges and believe those will appeal to people looking for something more on the hard sponged Chinese end of the spectrum. It's an interesting mix of a...

"Is that Par Gerrell over there?" Good stuff!

He lives in the right country for all these blades...

While you do that, I would like to bring back... the ball whacker... ball slapper... ball whatever!