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I see two ways to go about this: 1. Treat it as practice and improve your open ups. sooner or later you will learn it (unless you're doing something wrong), so just try to loop every ball coming behind the white line. 2. If you want to win: If he just pushes, you don't have to try to trick him...

The reason frisctionless and extremely long pips are banned is the appeal of the sport. ITTF want to see long topspin to topspin rallies. And my honest take: Playing against a good inverted player is fun. Playing against a good chopper is fun. Playing against a frictionless pip player is not...

I don't see his style as complete. Last year Varga Botond beat him in a WTT Event. This event he barely beat Lei Balázs, who isn't even the best youth player here. (I don't mean they are not strong, they are among the top players in Hungary, but also, internationally pretty unknown) Faraji is...

Both are top end rubbers but you need boosting for the H3. If you liked it you can try, I adjusted very quickly.

The forum's favourite anti-boosting member posted a video recently about haveing a reactive chemical on the sponge which gets discolored when contacted by booster and the video claimed ITTF will try to implement it in 2027. I don't like the idea to having to pay more for top performing rubbers...

The Sanwei 75 is a good blade, I've played with it for 2 years, but I have to say it's not equivalent to the more expensive blades it imitates, at least mine wasn't. It's pretty stiff and haven't had to many feeling, but it was very solid, easy to block. Similar things can be said about the...

ohh, interesting. If it's in south germany there is a good chance I can attend

I don't have expensive gear and can't tell the difference between FLAC and 320kbps mp3 (can however between 256 and 320). For me the biggest game changer was to use a fairly detailed eq on every platform...music player app, PC...fine tuning my cheap equipment elevated experience tenfold.

Right now you try to hit it too early. Maybe you can try to read the spin based off how it bounces from your side. Just let it go out a little further. When looping personally I would use more power to help override the spin. There is no real shortcut to reading the spin, it's trying actively...

Most people here take a rest day for recovery. I think this is fine as long as you continuously improve. But in the summer you should take intensive training camps for sure. I am not familiar how ITDP and training camps/academies work in the USA, so I won't comment on that, but China might be a...

Short push/touch during every warmup, usually one basket (~70 balls) of various push receives. And during backspin loop drills the one who gives the backspin does it seriously. Practicing with a defender is the only time when I practice long push-long push, against inverted long pushes are 99%...

Same. And even with anti, if you can't score with a serve, you can prepare a good 3rd ball attack. As others said, you have to learn to read the spin anyway, and inverted rubbers force you to learn and help you feel it.

Playing with half power won't work against those long serves against backspin. If you don't know much much sidespin or backspin is on the ball, either step back and loop it bravely, or just contact it right after the bounce, without moving your racket (like a short touch/push). Looping is...

Good video. But I see some people who do the opposite and focus on getting points and it hinders them. The typical players who are stuck on nearly the same level despite playing 3 times a week for 40 years and the quirky play doesn't make up for the lack of basics and understanding.

Good luck on your journey, I will definitely follow you! I am around pro kids and you are on a good path! How much do you train a week?

This looks fine. I usually check it on the table, and if it looks like the left one in the picture below and dry, I glue it. I wouldn't give them another layer.

Hello everyone! I started to make an ELO ratings ladder for the WTT circuit players, to see what is the real strength of our favourite players. However, I encountered a problem: since I have to enter the results manually, it takes a lot of time. There aren't many WTT Contender and CHampion...

At this point I am not sure what we should call hybrid rubbers. I've had 2 H3's in the last year and neither of them were even tacky, one of them lifted the ball for a fraction of a second but that was gone after one or two sessions. The newer one never lifted the ball, not even slightly. But...

Try to anticipate with your mind, not your body. Often I expect a ball coming crosscourt to the FH and I move my hand to there for a counter. Even if it's just a tiny bit early, the opponent sees it and switches to down the line to the BH and it's to late to move back there, I can only lob back...

I like to anticipate every ball attackable, works like a charm. You don't need to backswing for a push, so it's much easier to go from loop to push, than from push to loop. ZJK gives the same advice in some of his coaching videos. (He also says that during serve receive you should anticipate bh...