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Of course pips are making the sport uncool, you will never see a long pips pushblocker player achieve the heights of Pongfinity in terms of popularity for eg... they are hated in TT circles for a good reason. Imagine some beginners taking up table tennis due to Pongfinity, and then losing bad...

Melbourne is the farthest place from hot lol....I wish it was actually hot!

Yes I did, still the same problem....

For those who don't think LP is a huge advantage in amateur circles (and even beyond). Chen Weixing losing to a long pips amateur: He Zhi Wen losing to a long pips amateur: http://mytabletennis.net/forum/he-zhi-wen-losing-to-an-amateur-xd_topic90392_page1.html Mind you that regular...

I had one that lasted only 4 months before it became a brick with no spin potential.... I don't think it was just a bad batch because a few friends also experienced this.

Let us know how long the high performance lasts! I'm a big fan of D09c on the FH - imo it has the most spin (other than boosted Hurricane) and still has good short game control while retaining the Dignics springe sponge which makes looping a joy with it. I only really switched due to...

He Zhuojia is also a LP player. Not saying that LPs are completely insensitive to spin but they are vastly less sensitive to spin compared to inverted. You can even do the chiquita with LP, imo it can be one of the most disturbing LP strokes during receive. Not saying that LP doesn't take...

Yes, if they have an SP or inverted side that they can attack well with, suddenly giving them dead balls is not so safe anymore.... you're talking about the basic pushblocker kinda LP style which is not so hard to deal with imo. Also LP is perfectly capable of adding quite some spin onto an...

Lol might as well play badminton if I wanted to play a spinless sport. Spin is the cool defining factor in table tennis.

Yes, what I meant is the add or subtracting from incoming spin as the primary method of spin variation in long pips. It is still spin variation, and not just a dead ball. If all they produced was dead balls they would be really easy to play against.

In tennis even the pushers or junk ballers are using similar equipment, it is not using equipment as a crutch. And all of these junk players actually have to move well in order to compete. Same with badminton - clears, net shots and dropshots are played with the same equipment and are in fact...

In any game you should be balancing at all levels not just the highest levels. This is to ensure a fun experience at all levels. Sure inverted is dominant at the highest levels where everyone has excellent spin reading and adjustment capabilities and very good footwork. But at the lower amateur...

I would argue that chopping and looping are roughly equal. Usually in hard best of 7s it's the looper that gets tired first, not the chopper, because you have to loop explosively to overcome the backspin. Also LP players usually love heavy backspin because your backspin = their topspin to use...

Yes, if I switched to pips I would lose my BH chiquita and fast BH loop, two of my main point winning weapons. I also reckon I produce more spin variations with my inverted receive than pips players. And I understand how inverted topspin makes it easier to land shots because of the Magnus...

it's not that the pipsters didn't spend a lot of time perfecting all those nasty over the table strokes - but they probably didn't even sweat to get there compared to the inverted players.... then you have to question if TT is even a sport any more, or just a game of parlour tricks. With correct...

Today I was playing against my combination penholder practice partner again. I practiced some of my improved FH receives especially the FH sideswipe. I can now control whether I want to produce sidetopspin or sideunderspin simply by the fingers and wrist now. Also did a lot of training on using...

Even Lin Gaoyuan lost to an amateur illegal long pips penholder Lei Leilei who doesn't even move much.... I heard Zhou Yu also nearly lost against another pipster And at even higher level, watch how Ni Xia Lian does this to top 20 players. Long pips also don't require that accurate of a read...

Guy's FH pendulum serve is really good and is an example of what I meant the other day about the need to read spin based on trajectory and not based on racket movement. I play with ppl with serves like that too and it is a nightmare to read those serves. His reverse pendulum is not so good...

The answer is in the short game - inner ALC is just plain superior in terms of short control. They have very good fundamentals for producing a lot of power on loops anyway.

Just stop working out on your right side for a while in the gym, you should see some better balance this way