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TareqPhoto, You are like many smart people out there - you have dealt with many people who do not know what they are talking about, so you want to understand yourself, so you are doing your research. The problem is that some things in life are too complicated to research unless you have the...

Spin ain't coming back through that door... Just saying ...

He is probably asking to see how objective some of these websites are. Usually people like TareqPhoto clearly enjoy this kind of thing.

Unfortunately, my experience in blade-rubber dependency has found it mostly to be a bunch of hogwash except in some clear specialist cases. Anyone can adapt their game to suit specific setups and as long as people glue the rubber properly to give it enough spring in the case of inverted, they...

These trials are really for the players not named Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin. If the other players cannot win their way in, then their chances are much lower of getting in if the coaches have to select.

The price of running before walking... Aka refusing to trust.experts....

I think that saying what a blade is supposedly good or bad at makes little sense apart from a comparison to another blade. Same for rubbers.

Google "multiball table tennis".

Yes, amateurplayer, that is what I mean. Bego is just extending the concept to the whole setup with a different setup for playing style.

If you can't get good coaching, as long as you have lots of balls, there is always multiball.

Der Echte, Your original post rambles a bit and is confusing so I am unsure if I fully got it. For me, I find most reviews, even that of tttdaily, to be fairly uninformative with the important exception of the moments when they compare the behavior of the rubber to a rubber that I have played...

Once you play this game at a club, you will be pretty much forced to get coaching unless you have a friend who plays pretty well and is willing to coach you for free. No one who plays this game likes to lose that much, and that is all you will be doing unless you get coaching.

IF you are getting coaching, it is always best to get whatever your coach recommends, or at least APPROVES of, since he is the one going to be responsible for your results.

Love your confidence in TareqPhoto's game and potential.

This is true, but solid impact to the degree I do it now started with Big Dipper - before that, I was a brush looper to the T with Tenergy 05, but mostly drove the ball flat. Big Dipper just encouraged me to rip the ball with spin, which in many cases was even better. Westchester is not my...

That's the video Der_Echte was referring to.

Der_Echte, We 100% agree - as I argued with a famous intellectual table tennis forummer who shall remain nameless for now on the other forum, the feedback/dwell of the blade is more important than the blade speed for me and while there is a good correlation between speed and dwell, sometimes...

I love this thread. Der Echte, I hear your opinion on the need for coaching. However, I disagree with your choice of example. IMO, kids can use anything and their feel and lack of power enables them to get dip with equipment that is too fast for adults. As for adults, I strongly disagree...

One of the tricks I learned from working with Brett Clarke and practicing by myself is that the pull up trick is largely unnecessary. Just impacting the ball by hitting it flat on the back/bottom and forward will impart light topspin on the ball. Yes, you won't get that humongous pop-up vs the...

Yeah, take a similar mental approach to every point. IMO, it's even more important when you have a big lead. Some people relax too much when they are up 10-6 and have their two serves. They forget that if it gets to 10-8, their opponents gets two serves. As I've gotten better, I've realized...