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No, even on pushes you can curve the ball around the side (not just chiquita), it produces side underspin and because your dwell time is increased you get more control. It is basically the only way I can short push reliably even against half long balls of ambiguous spin. If you watch the pros...

With ambiguous no spin or pure underspin serves, best to contact a bit more towards the side of the ball, it will help you control the ball a lot more in pushes as well as flicks. Try to make the dwell time more. If you contact purely at the back of the ball then your margin of error will be...

😂 lol I simply think you would play better with long pips on your BH, given that you're not taking advantage of the best that shakehand inverted BH has to offer (namely chiquita, spicy BH loops and sudden switches down the line which are the cornerstone of the modern TT BH). Almost all of the...

Zhou Qihao doesn't disappoint 😁

Inverted RPB is a solid option for penholders, but the true darksiders use long pips on the back and twiddle for max disruptiveness :)

Against modern style high level players you won't even be able to prevent the serve from being attacked directly to all corners of the table. Short balls will be chiquitaed and FH flicked, long balls will just be looped. :) If you can't beat them at their game why not just put a piece of long...

Played today and didn't do as bad as I thought I would. But still somehow the spin feeling in both my FH and BH loops is a lot worse compared to 2 weeks ago for some reason. Thanks to a lot of the footwork training I've been doing, I was in position a lot of time even in a lot of wide angle...

It does but not the parts you think, all those good TT players have quite good lower body agility and strength even if they look "fat". Upper body is not that important imo. Wang Hao even at his fattest had immense lower body strength, those legs would easily do 100-200kg leg presses for eg

Damn I haven't played in 2 weeks due to a work conference and am itching a bit :( The only thing I did was a lot of the recovery reset shadow practice, it would be interesting to see if I can incorporate it when I play tomorrow!

What is not subjective is the power of $$$, which old ppl have way more compared to young ppl 🤣 any sport would be dumb to drive away the old ppl as they have a lot of disposable money!

I think this is a snarky and nasty post on this forum that is really not needed in our sport. I'm sorry but even if you are a pro player, words like this are unhelpful and discouraging.

If his opponent is like my penhold practice partner, high arc loops no matter how spinny they are just too easy to deal with, he would be able to angle block or punch it or heck even sidespin chopblock them with ease. Now if they were ultra spinny and low trajectory with varying length (like...

I know these types of penhold players who idolize He Zhi Wen with their angles, it is incredibly difficult to stay in the rally against them without good footwork. Basically you should serve long most of the time (with some occasionally short serves to keep them on their toes). They can give...

I think the hard part is if an opponent actually intentionally or unintentionally varies the length on this serve - you really have to be watching the length of the ball like a hawk. This is why I think the reverse pendulum/tomahawk/BH pendulum serve to the short FH is quite deadly against...

Flicking a ball soft and short is indeed quite a devastating shot against those who kinda step back after a short nospin or topspin serve to prepare to loop hard. It's one of my fav flick variations especially if they prove they can deal well with the nospin and sidespin flicks first. There's...

This is one of the best videos I've seen on the FH flick, it would be good if someone who knows Japanese can give a better translation. Although even without the translation I think just watching this has given me a lot of ideas.

You can try the nospin straight FH flick to his BH (it's called 推挑）, it produces a very dead ball and that usually causes a lot of trouble especially against ppl with bad BHs, sometimes you can even add the fade component to make it even trickier with heavy sidespin. I find that flicks without...

With the amount of anger that OP has, it's no wonder fun isn't in his dictionary!

Apparently after some discussions here on TTD, it is the tangential coefficient of restitution of the rubber - so the more energy that the rubber returns to the ball after being stretched the spinnier the rubber is. The tackiness is just there to prevent slippage, that's it. That's how the likes...

Tbh Ma Long is more talented than ZJK who sometimes resorts to sheer physicality to win the game. Ma Long also has way more stroke variety and ball control skills. Can't deny ZJK had more of an impact on the game though with his innovative BH chiquita game followed by very aggressive but safe...