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it has been known but often forgotten, DPRK national teams regularly trains in China, thus inherited Chinese fundamental technique and playstyle. It's a match that Hari and Hina were surpassed in both strategy and technique

That's the importance of fundamentals, I felt like Japan has only been excels on tactics, landing points and pacing rather than footwork, force exertion and stroke efficiency. DPRK often practice in China's provincial teams and it's obvious to the eye that their fundamentals are solid, I just...

I'd prefer changing the racket to a slower one and work my way up from it, clipper structure blade is a good starting point. Master all your stroke with it and then when you can exert force properly, increase your rubber hardness.

ah that's just an idiom for "an important rule to remember", not table tennis-related

I also had those problems before and during multiball practice I asked my partner to do these following exercises: - stand on the backhand size and do a fully extended forehand loop as the partner feeds the ball to the forehand corner, without moving your body past the middle line. This helps...

https://4years.asahi.com/article/15112499 I've just came across this interview of Togami's mother, looks like the nickname "anemic prince" that the Chinese dubbed him is spotted on.

so basically its concept is the same as an inner fiber blade, quite interesting

I'm also using a V5 on my bh and ran into the same problem as yours, but I think the cause might be from the dead feeling of the sponge. Tornado V5 works wonderfully on the fh side (probably the best & cheapest fh rubber imo) but for the bh I'd choose Rxton 1 over it regarding same price range

that's what makes the different, Harimoto can use defense shots to his advantage while Uda and most other JPN players struggle in this area. Beside, he has improved his forehand immensely in this string of tournament to close the loophole

Uda came back from injury and gave Harimoto a run for his money then whooped Shinopi and Sora butt lmao, I hope he does well against Lin YJ tonight

Tanaka with a solid 3-0 win, except for Harimoto who has already debuted in the previous generation he is the most consistent new gen player I've seen in JNT. Can rally at pretty much any range, even lob quite consistently when needed plus good transition between defense/attack

Uda's run from 3-7 to 12-10 in the last set is great, Joao's backhand caused some serious trouble for him

atm he has only lost to Kazuki Yoshiyama at the teams event, that should say sth about his formidability. Yesterday he even won a Korean 3rd player 3-0 with the final set being 23-21

best non-(CNT,Togami,Lebrun brothers) player lmao. But on a side note, do you have any info on Togami withdrawal from the two final wtt tournament before the Olympics, did he run into some health complication or just withdraw for closed training?

Players with great forehand is harder to come by than those with good backhand, but since Japanese tt philosophy is speed over everything it's understandable why BH is more favorable. To me Uda is a lone samurai from now on lol, I hope he can find a good coach to develop his playstyle further...

In the last two sets, for a moment I've seen the glimpse of that 2019 Uda's forehand coming back. Dude pulled a Ma Long on Shinozuka, completely locked away his backhand and set up deadly forehand attacks. Please Japan, make more forehand-oriented player like Uda

I think it's because Uda did a lot of short arc loops against backspin to open the rally. Simon by instinct often fell back expecting those loops to go deep but due to them being short he couldn't defend well thus causing the return to have high bounce for Uda to push him far away from the table

her consistency is starting to look more and more like a Chinese player comparing to her peers

he's making the scenario where Japan activates his P-card in the team event more and more plausible. Although all his recent match (except for the lost against Cho DS) were uphill battles, he's proving his tenacity when being pushed to the corner. He has a clear intention when serving, he knows...

Actually I think letting Sora take a longer road can be beneficial. He has more time to grow under less pressure and complete his tactics, LA 2028 should be his main stage rather than Paris