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Do you even know how to have a civilized discussion without insulting? Btw you are also completely wrong and yet confident af (??) Have you ever served a ghost serve before? As long as your racket contacts bottom half of the ball and your force is directed forwards (even upwards!) it will...

Imo Fan Zhendong has very good feeling on the chop, he has won an amazingly high percentage of points when he actually chops the ball lol (for an all out attacker like him). But in general, players are using a lot of new strokes (chiquita, strawberry) which have their own spin and placement...

Sounds like you improved! That's the most important thing imo, eventually it will start showing in the results. Missing easy pushes or smashes can be quite detrimental mentally, but tbh I've learnt recently to respect all shots - not to treat any shot as "easy" in the game including high balls...

Wait what? For me I get insane dwell time using Dignics which cannot be replicated by any other rubber except for maybe heavily boosted Hurricane. This just shows how subjective table tennis is 😂

Main thing for me is the terrible crap camera angle. The side "umpire" view is just plain nonsense and should be banned from table tennis. Idk whoever had this stupid idea and pitched it to WTT...

Yes, one of my practice partners swears by innerforce type blades. He plays a much more control game with a bomb spinny af straight arm FH loop with boosted Hurricane 3. His short push control is definitely quite a bit better than me. The only way I win against him is by forcing BH-BH topspin...

Changed back to Viscaria + double Dignics 05 and played my best table tennis today - I felt I even had the advantage in the later games with my combination penholder partner. I feel like this setup is just such a joy to use and attack with. Chiquitas and FH flicks are so easy to execute...

Quick tip for the BH flick, if you think about rotating the entire upper body rather than the arm, you will see a significant boost in power and ability to "cancel" out incoming spin thus an increased stability. Same with the FH flick. The other thing is of course doing safer receives like FH...

There's something about the head balance of the Viscaria that makes it so pleasant to play with, and the direct approach just makes topspins so much easier to execute with less effort. My nerve inflammation issues flared up again after using the Harimoto ALC. Unfortunately I loved the pushes...

Got pissed off about my sudden lack of spin generation on the FH and decided to really take a look at it. I figured out how to reliably spin the ball with just the finger actions (first joint of index finger pressing down on the left side of the BH rubber, thumb pressing on the left side of the...

It sounds like it is because you lost the spin feeling, and you might be rushing a bit. Once you lose spin feeling everything goes to crap (I had that experience recently), because you lost the margin of safety due to the Magnus effect of topspin dragging the ball down towards the table. I can...

Even with no foreigners, it's still bad af. Player safety should be placed first, it's so easy to injure a great player for no reason...

For 1) you have to contact the bottom and back of the ball (if the sidespin is overwhelming sometimes even slightly on the right side) when you loop, for 2) you have to contact the back and maybe even more towards the right side. Use the fingers to add a lot of spin on your BH loop and body for...

In that case you can simply start farther away from the table by default, and don't bother with too much close table play, you can always lunge in to deal with short balls to send them long and then play the long ball battle. Samsonov kinda does this.

Usually they don't return my opening loops aggressively, I'm just losing to nasty angled blocks with varying spins when it comes to the topspin rally. I'm confident if it becomes a BH-BH rally festival but it usually doesn't turn out that way, the better players know not to do that and then they...

Do you think multiball is a shortcut to improving topspin rallying skills? I feel like this is where my bottleneck is at the moment, I often initiate the first attack but somehow against better players I'm outplayed in the rallying game which is really annoying for me because I initiated the...

Yeah that could be a factor, long hours behind the keyboard just results in tight forearm gripping muscles :(

Have you tried simply widening your stance instead of squatting lower? For me it is more relaxing this way, squatting is really tiring for me too. Fan Zhendong and ZJK squat a lot but they have some massive quads. Also you can bend forwards at the hips a bit to get lower too which doesn't cost...

Yes. A true competitive BH loop is difficult to develop and requires a lot of development in terms of spin generation. FH loop is comparatively easier and I see many club players having decent FH. Also Gozo likes to hit so pips may complement his game quite a bit. I feel like with inverted you...