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You mean play to 16 - playing to 15 would not allow deuce to occur with both players having had an equal number of serve opportunities.

Yes, I still do especially on my pendulum serves, even though I should know better.

I don't agree that there are too many variables to mathematically represent what is going on precisely is a significant barrier to analyzing table tennis. After all, this doesn't prevent mathematical analysis of tennis or other forms of sports science. The real problem for me with people like...

Guys, You all do have to know that this is what pnatchwey does. He's a bit of a literalist when it comes to language. Lots of smart comments in this post from all parties. While technique is king, equipment does matter. If you don't think so, buy Tenergy 25 and use it. What you learn may...

Wow, Fan beats Ma! Comes back from 0-2 down too!

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/Features/2015/May/19/MCAFEES-MECHANICS-Correcting-Movement-Problems

Orenburg won 3-0.

Yeah, very sharp. Timo had some sharp spurts as well, but couldn't keep up the shotmaking ultimately.

I don't think it's fighting the follow through, to be honest. They serve differently from WLQ or Samsonov, who build in aspects of the follow through into their serve motion. If you look carefully, you will see that WLQ's pendulum has much more shoulder rotation. I think recovery after the...

Congrats, bboloiy. Always respect due to people willing to test and forge their skills in the furnace of competition!

This tends to be the bottom line when dealing with someone who is asking this question. At the level that you may need these faster blades, this question is usually moot because of boosting. Pros are on record playing with Korbels and Powerwoods so if you need something faster, either you...

I think your analogy points out something that I was trying to find out by posting the more recent footage which is whether you were another strong proponent of CNT technique/practice as being an easy test of whether something is good or not. Tony Hawk is not a run of the mill guy. William...

One other option is a Nexy Dual impact blade. You can look into Peter Pan or Kim Jung Hoon - the blades have a non linear response and play slower on lower impact and much faster on hard impact.

Then you are looking for impossible things - you have to realize that the whole point of composite materials is to get stiff blades with thinner heads. IF you use pure wood, you need to gave the blade more and thicker plies to make it faster and stiffer. The blade will be heavier and it will...

UpsideDownCarl, Would your criticism still apply to this video? or this one:

Stratus Powerwood or Korbel.

Not sure what you mean by this. The ready position is him standing with the racket over his right leg, ready to play forehand or backhand. He gets there pretty quickly. Since he wants to cover more of the table with his backhand, his ideal ready position is closer to the middle of the table...

Again, I personally have never considered Henzell's serve a true tomahawk. I think Wang Hao's reverse serve is essentially similar.

Yes, WLQ won at the end, but he definitely didn't quickly learn to read the serve and even after he "read" it, he mostly produces responses that if the roles were reversed would have been destroyed or should have given Henzell a consistent upperhand. That's where the differences in forehand and...

I think your general idea is right, but the specifics are not that simple. The question is what kind of tomahawk/serve, how quickly does the player recover after the serve as well as what kind of weapons does the player have to use after he recovers from the serve. In general, I think the...