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Yep, LJK plays a bit too much like ZJK - too much late timing spin oriented balls which can trouble other players but not Ma Long. This is why they seldom win against Ma Long. To win against Ma Long you generally need to outpower and outspeed him while maintaining very good consistency, which...

When Ma Long is looking so fresh and motivated like he is for this tournament, he is pretty hard to stop. Guy is just the most complete player with barely any weakness, knows how to play every single shot in the game (yes even BH-BH and BH chiquita with all its variations). LJK is just worse...

XP BH is a bit Fang Bo like which imo handicaps him a bit way too much especially against modern BH players like LSD. He intentionally aims it a lot and there is a general lack of smoothness in the fingers/supination/wrist movement as he tries to 'fix' them too much instead of just letting it...

There is actually a way to really disgust the opponent. So it is super easy when going against the spin to produce heavy af sideunderspin (this is why ppl love going against the spin to push) especially if you have good spinny inverted rubber. The incoming spin bites on the rubber and you have...

Watched the XP vs Truls match and it was super exciting. I'm surprised that Truls actually lost, but anyone on the CNT is always a threat regardless. I really like Truls' serve/receive game, his BH variation and the big FH loopkill. It really looks increasingly Ma Long like. Xiang Peng I feel...

We will have to agree to disagree here then. I think there is a major loss of control when trying to loop going against the spin, especially against opponents with spin production as good or similar to me. I pretty much never to inside out loops against reverse spin, way too hard to control...

Yeah but against real high quality sidespin, brushing the right side of the ball will lead to a lot of mistakes and loss of control. Even when pivoting it is way easier to go with the spin and brush the left or at the back. For me I usually dont like going completely on the left, but the back of...

I used to try doing it your way, but against higher spin quality and variation it just doesnt work well. Going with the sidespin is the much easier way. In terms of placement you can always aim it more to the left if you wanna make it go more left.

Dont wanna jinx Ma Long but I have a feeling he can win this championship...

1. Heavily speed glued FH Hurricane 3 rubber 2. Baked true frictionless LP/anti on BH 3. No toss, hidden serves Is this the fastest way to win? xD

Exactly. And especially complaining about other ppl cheating when you yourself are cheating, is a pretty hypocritical thing to do. But morality is not really something that is well rewarded in sports. This is why imo Boll complaining about LSD serves, or Truls complaining about WCQ serves is...

LSD happens to win more, and of course more ppl complain when they lose vs when they win. Someone who wins or is expected to win against Anders Lind is not gonna complain too much about his serves. It's like complaining to the old grandpa whom you beat 11-3, that his no toss serves are...

Not removing free arm is completely illegal according to rules too. Just because his opponent could actually guess it based on trajectory or other things like sound, or by reducing error rates by delaying the receive timing or going for less aggressive receives, doesnt mean it is any less worse...

It is stupid to have players 'self police' the hidden serves or borderline hidden serves. This kind of nonsense has been poisoning TT for a long af time. Really it needs Hawkeye and a challenge system.

Anders Lind actually doesnt remove his free arm until it is super late. A bit like how Noshad serves. It is pretty much pot meet kettle these days....

temptation is just too big to not use hidden serves or borderline hidden serves unfortunately.... Lind himself is illegal serving most of the time anyway lmao

Practiced a bit after a long break from TT. I was trying out the PechPong idea about going backwards on the followthrough to give a soft dead block. And it works lol. So with the paddle you can go with your normal clockwise BH topspin stroke but when that circle goes backwards at the end you...

On centre of gravity, you pretty much lower it by bending at the hips. You do that beautifully for your serve movement, just need to get into that position when you prepare to do FH loop. Currently you have no forward lean at the hips when you do the FH loop. But ngl it is physically more...

I think it looks like a lack of commitment to loop all of his long serves. It was not really a technique issue but you were getting attacked all the time and under defence which is a bad situation to be in. You were sort of trying to touch or control it back, but this will only provide him with...

Damn Anders Lind's serve/receive game looks nasty af, some of those balls were curving like mad. Cant really blame Kao for missing those shots, it is not something he would have trained for. This is why it really pays off in TT to be weird lol