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  1. Questions for Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Lee Sang Su

    Lee Sang Su - what did you change in your game to become so dangerous to CNT players that you have won against Ma Long and Fan Zhendong? Was it the short game, BH, stability, etc?
  2. Elbow getting very sore.... would a lighter racket help?

    Agreed with the recommendations to rest. I wouldnt say that weight is the main factor. Head heavy blades are the worst - you might want to look at blades with centre of gravity closer to the handle. One thing is looking at your technique to use more body and less forearms. The other...
  3. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Lol i have the opposite, my BH is way better in serve receive looping than my FH. Esp when there is half long and short serves mixed in, the BH is just way more versatile. I try to improve success rates by focusing hard on spin with my FH which compensates for my shitty FH footwork which I have...
  4. Does racket angle matter based on whether you face underspin or topspin?

    What matters is the location on the ball of which you hit/brush the ball. If you hit the ball from below you are gonna contact it more with a more open racket angle automatically because of the stroke trajectory forces you to hit the lower half of the ball. Same goes if you come from above, it...
  5. Trying to fix my robotic forehand

    In addition to the stance comments which I agree with - something I noticed in the feet - your feet are jumping/shifting throughout the swing instead of rotating (like snuffing out a cigaratte with the shoes as some old Chinese tutorials say). I think technically it is about pronation/supination...
  6. How to monetize table tennis?

    Still, med school ppl earn the most. Im in engineering and also earn quite high, but it is nowhere as high as the doctors lol. Think of the sweet money to motivate you!
  7. How to monetize table tennis?

    If you are in med school you're gonna earn big, why would you wanna earn peanuts in TT...
  8. Is it bad to mainly focus on the weight transfer while having a fixed arm for doing a forehand drive?

    Usually FH drive is like warmup and basic countering without much spin, then what he wrote would make more sense. If he meant drive loop (think that is more a Korean term), then yeah what you said makes sense. I have met quite a few players who only practice looping and never countering - it...
  9. Is it bad to mainly focus on the weight transfer while having a fixed arm for doing a forehand drive?

    Quite excessive for a FH drive. With FH drive you should have a much more compact movement and rotation than a loop. It is a warmup after all to get the feeling of good ball contact. If you do all that body rotation and intentionally not create that much spin it is a bad habit imo, if you rotate...
  10. Need Forehand Rubber Advice

    D05 for sure. Dont bother with Tenergy. If you put tackiness enhancer on D05 it becomes even better. Mine is 2 yrs old and still serves and loops with amazing spin
  11. Luka Mladenovic EASILY beats Darko Jorgic - can you explain the power of AntiSpin?

    Luka has very good feeling on that anti chopblock and Jorgic kept doing slow spinny loops to him which again imo is a mistake. When I was using anti, I loved playing against ppl who gave me slow spinny loops lol. You could do so much quality and variation on the chopblock. Fake/dead opening...
  12. Luka Mladenovic EASILY beats Darko Jorgic - can you explain the power of AntiSpin?

    Lol jorgic's serves all had way too much sidespin which enabled Luka to make too much weird af balls. Strange that he didn't just do flat (ie pure underspin/no spin) serves and receives. His game is way too reliant on that heavy sidetopspin serve which basically is the juiciest serve for an anti...
  13. 2 Match Review (best 3 of 5). Open to tips & feedback: Lefty Penholder

    If you aim even further left, you can curve it with sidespin down the line and that is imo the most stable way to go down the line. I do a lot of BH opening loop down the line too in this way too. But with down the line you can't put so much power, you have to really load up the spin, but this...
  14. 2 Match Review (best 3 of 5). Open to tips & feedback: Lefty Penholder

    Very nice relaxed playstyle and powerful loops! I see someone is probably watching a lot of Xu Xin matches lol... Few things that I can see: You need to commit to looping the blatant long and half long serves. Pushing long serves will land you in trouble most of the time unless you can chop it...
  15. Feedback on my League games

    Videos can be quite deceiving - because Ma Long has longer arms/legs than say Lin Shidong or Fan Zhendong so even at the same backswing position his bat will always look lower than theirs. Also taking the bat low using the body and taking it low using the arm is also completely different, even...
  16. Feedback on my League games

    Hmm this is very interesting. I guess you can always brute force everything with a hook loop, but for me that hasn't worked well against clockwise sidespin serves (for me righty FH pendulum or lefty hook serves) unless I have a very precise read of the incoming serve, esp the top/bottom/side...
  17. Videos from my Training Session

    I watched a bit of the training6 video on serve receive. You do a 1 step lunge for receives of short balls. Usually the more correct way is to use 3 quick steps (right, left and then right) instead of 1. This allows you to more precisely adjust to the ball as you are moving towards it, taking...
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