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All the blades are great. Get the most expensive one if you want that as it will have the best resell value and will turn heads in your club. Again, nothing we tell you will change your mind.

Buy anything you want. You won't use it forever and you will learn from it. Usually, I advise people to buy something in ALL+ to OFF- all wood as their first blade, but it doesn't matter- they seem to know what they want and buy an OFF or OFF+ blade with very fast rubbers. So the correct...

Yes. For me though, the fake action ball always looks funny. The contrast ball (light vs. heavy) is harder but then I have to study racket contact point. The good thing about service return is that, like everything in table tennis, as one gets better, some things become unconscious and this...

Learn to produce different spins with your serve and watch the ball path as the ball goes through the table. It helped me. The other thing is that if a fast racket motion produces a ball that comes short, that ball is loaded with spin. After all, if that fast motion didn't produce a fast...

How many lessons have you received from your coach on how to serve? That might help make my point even clearer.

Sure you do.:cool:

I doubt you will find anything else quite like that specific to table tennis.

All wood is always good - just ask Samsonov ;).

It's probably been reviewed and suggested elsewhere, but Tahl Leibovitz's "Ping Pong for Fighters" is excellent as far as tips and mental approach go.

The biggest thing you need is a video camera. That will allow you to share your matches with other players and to review your own technique. Ultimately, you can't tell how well you are doing what the coach tells you unless you can see yourself. Get a camera and some spare batteries and a...

I've used all the balls for quite a few months and UpSideDownCarl's experience is mine as well. We differ on whether the NP40+ plays better than the XSF ball, but that is neither here nor there. I prefer the bounce height of the XSF.

1. Why didn't you get sponsors (I personally would have liked Matt Syed to put some money behind some of his biased writings in "Bounce")? 2. Why didn't you have Sam actively competing during the challenge (maybe leagued matches)? After learning basic strokes, my experience is that most of...

Zhang Jike and Ovtcharov. The most versatile backhands in the world - no weaknesses. The most powerful element of their backhands is that they can increase pressure at the table if you are looping to them. This is what puts them in a different class from the others that look similar but...

I learned a lot in 2014. I had to to get better. I think the biggest thing that I learned that I didn't know beforehand was the value of serve instruction. If you can, take lessons in how to serve properly. It is at least as valuable as all those lessons in forehand looping etc. From a...

If you think you are spending too much money to get quality rubbers, give this a try. It's more a looping rubber than a hitting rubber as far as spin is concerned- you can brush just about as hard as you want to with good results. I use it in 38 deg because I came from Tenergy 05. It has good...

Oga Quadri, you have done Naija very proud o! I am in the US and really looking forward to seeing you play when you come to MD/DC for the North American teams (will try to get your autograph). The thing that impressed me the most was when you guaranteed that Nigeria would win a Commonwealth...