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Actually, something that often helps me is to watch videos of top players here for about a half an hour before I go to play. I have all sorts of theories about why this helps.

I wonder if Timo felt like he was playing himself.

This is a tough one. For me it's not just getting my body warmed up. It is getting my eyes following the ball and my timing settled down and reminding myself of whatever technical issue is emerging on that day. I don't have a solution.

Ok. But it is two different claims. 1. Top players get special rubber. I do not find that hard to believe, as your source says. That has been mentioned on forums for years. 2. Butferfly makes special Tenergy rubber in Europe. I would not buy that without A LOT more evidence than some guy...

Tough to top that one.

Really? My understanding is that ITTF now requires that manufacturers state country of manufacture of rubbers on the packaging. I haven't seen a Butterfly rubber that says "Made in Germany" or anything like that.

One thing I should say in favor of Xu Xin, he is maybe the greatest doubles player of all time.

I do have some insider information on this. Provincial team level professional TT players and beyond don't really go to school, and I will never believe for a nanosecond that Ma Long has the equivalent of a college degree. I don't much care mind you, but as with TTRogue, I find the propaganda...

I do have some insider information on this. Provincial team level professional TT players and beyond don't really go to school, and I will never believe for a nanosecond that Ma Long has the equivalent of a college degree. I don't much care mind you, but as with TTRogue, I find the propaganda...

Yes, fast twitch muscles tend to be bulkier (compare sprinters to marathoners). Elite table tennis players often have relatively bulky legs and are pretty skinny everywhere else, and usually are quite lean. Power and racket speed in a stroke is not really coming from the arms. It is coming...

ALC blades like this can support a wide range of rubbers and there is not one that is "best suited". This blade is very similar to a Viscaria and also the Timo Boll ALC. ZJK uses a Hurricane on the forehand and a Tenergy (T64?) on the BH with the Viscaria. Timo Boll uses T05 on both sides of...

Totally carb free diet could only be proposed by someone who missed some of his biochemistry lectures where they covered fatty acid beta oxidation. You actually need some carbs to metabolize fat. It is insane and prettyy much unsustainable.

From a spectator perspective live, mens doubles is amazing. Only idiots would think it is a good idea to not have it.

Suga and David are fantastic human beings and my next trip to Germany I'm going to make a point of spending more time around Frankfurt! Suga moved mountains so we could play, and conditipns were great. I am really grateful for that because my other attempt to play in Germany came on a holiday...

Back at my desk now, after attending a few days of the WTTC and it is easier to not post on a phone. One thing I hadn't mentioned is how absolutely and incredibly obnoxious the ZJK fan girls were in the stands -- a kind of rudeness that you see a lot with large herds of adolescents only...

I think this is interesting too. I don't have data like this for Waldner, just faulty memory. But Waldner could lose sometimes to people who weren't at the same level as he was, especially in tournaments that weren't so important (but sometimes even in WTTC team events). Ma Long is in my view...

Suga and I recently had the opportunity to discuss in Germany all sorts of "national" products. I am writing to remind him of this. And to state that I will be back!

This is an important point one I can speak to with some authority (on account of my age ;)). With aging you have good days and bad days, and as time goes your bad days increase in frequency, and a lot of this is just physical. Fatigue, pain, injury. But on good days you can be really really...

Interesting. Maybe it is from DF. I havent tried those yet.

Oddly enough there is such a thing. I am talking about lotions for a$$ pain. These things are sold to cyclists. The most popular is called Butt'r. If you take up any sort of serious cycling (it very much helps my table tennis) I strongly recommend it. I dont think it helps on forums though...