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Everything made by Adidas TT will show up as another brand within a year or two. Big deal.

BTW, one of the sad things about TT coaching is that some coaches are willing to take your money while not improving your game. In PNUT's case, that is probably a good thing. As they say, a PNUT and his money are soon parted. I guess that is what happens when PNUT takes lessons from some...

Smart guy - you want me to learn it so I can reteach it... I got news for you - if I learn that, I ain't teaching nobody... so there! :mad: :p:p:p:p:p

UpsideDownCarl, Seeing the spin on the ball is in part youth at work, and it is one of those abilities that players who started as children tend to have and do not know how they acquired it. Yes, we do get better at it as we play more, but despite all the video I have filmed and watched of my...

Have you had formal coaching? The thing is that TT, as much as it has a theory and a science to it, is a sport of action/practice. I was at a tournament yesterday where a very experienced 1800 rated short pips backhand blocker asked me how to play long pips. I will tell you what I told him...

90% is too kind.

Shiro, What is your USATT rating and what is the rating of the pushblocker? I am curious because sometimes, we make these issues about equipment when they are actually about the players. If a rated - 1300 player wanted to learn how to play against short pips, I wouldn't send him to get killed...

Yeah. Things like this explains why PNut thinks he is looping when he isn't.

To be fair, at that level, their spins are faster than my drives.

Nah - this came out of the T25 thread on mytt where pnatchwey was slapping the ball over the net in his video to prove to me that you can loop with T25. Someone referred to her so I googled her and saw the same upward looping and smashing game that I couldn't live with.

To give you a funny related story, when I tried Evolution MX-S for the first time, I felt it was too fast. Then I bought it in 1.9mm and it felt right. Then I compared the weight of the MX-S in 1.9mm to Big Dipper and Tenergy 05 and it was in the same range. Yes, we are creatures of habit...

Hahahaha - maybe this explains why I am seeing so many Stratus PowerWoods all over NY...

Table Tennis lesson 21st July 2015 Part 3 - the beginning of the video In that video, your forehand is beginning to look like the forehand of a good player (again, if you rotate your core more rather than leaning on your right foot, your balance will be better and the shot quality will improve)...

How much thinner? And do you mean APW46?

The main person people talk about is Adina Diaconu. She is a Romanian prospect who uses T25 on FH and T25 FX on BH. Here is John Bozi's video - you can see his stroke selection to get a gist of what T25 feels like in the hand of a looper. To quote Bozi: " After a week I found I had to kill...

Koki Niwa is using 05 now. He had to change as 25 was too limiting as he improved. You can see the change in his stroke selection and some of the bad habits that T25 encouraged in his blocking.

Thanks for the kind words, bro. Seriously, T25 was recommended to me when I was playing around 1700 level. The guy who recommended it felt it would help my close to the table game seriously. I kinda thought about it but couldn't find any players using it so I never took it seriously. One of...

The rubbers are fine. The blade is probably too fast, though he has to want to swing at the ball. The boy needs to learn to make the first topspin when the ball gets pushed back. He gets a push to his backhand and rather than spin with his backhand or pivot and use his forehand, he is pushing...

This isn't true unless you explain what you mean by control. And again, how many basement players (which is the style you are describing) will buy Tenergy? And how many serious attackers will pick a rubber for how well it chops and blocks rather than how well it loops and then how well it does...

So you are saying that only top players can loop or can appreciate the importance of looping and counterlooping? So you are a top player and the other players who are not top players and hate using T25 are idiots? Just trying to make sense of why you think T25 is a better rubber for most...