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Perhaps. But in China they do things their own way and they don't care what any outsiders think.

You would think. And yet recently they hired a taekwondo coach for the women's national soccer team (who are usually a very good team). There are some really strange things going on in the GSA.

Paraphrasing giangt's comment on the ZJK fan-thread, I wonder how ZJK's dog would spin the ball? By the way, this paper was not something that was published (easily determined from Google scholar), instead it was written as a class assignment when the author was a first-year graduate student...

Head size will affect frequency. Smaller = higher

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One thing increasing clear to me about Harimoto. You better have a really good return of serve against him because his serve is really really good and sets up his third ball a lot. In his recent league match with Ovtcharov, it was pretty close until Dima figured that out and then he just...

I am just guessing here, but maybe they think it improves the video/TV appearance by not having a white line that interferes with your seeing the ball. I wonder if it would be weird to play without it?

I like it a lot.

I have tried many blades too. To be honest, we have never really tried a "scientific" approach. What have we had in terms of objective measures? Weight, and blade dimensions and thickness, and really that is about it. We also have completely subjective measures of "speed" and "control" with...

Check out this animation about vibrations of circular membranes. It gives a hint as to how complex vibrations of a table tennis racket head might be. http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/MembraneCircle/Circle.html

They are both made of wood, so maybe by "solid" you mean larger? I haven't held a Korbel in awhile but if memory is correct both handles are too small for someone my size, but grip wrap solves it. It kind of settles into an ideal shape for my hand. I buy the ones used for tennis rackets and...

Regarding the CTTA, the ITTF, and the fans, those are three entities that will have almost no influence on what happens next. The entity making decisions now is the General Administration of Sports in China (GSA) and they don't really care about table tennis as a whole. This is all about...

Easy to say if it's not your money; and of course, it depends on how much they are fined, or salary is reduced, or how many endorsements they lose.

Also, the OPs comment about handle size is important. I think a lot of standard handles are too small if you are, say, 185 cm tall. My playing level is much higher with grip wraps on my Viscaria. I think that handle was originally designed for someone considerably smaller than I am.

ALC absorbs high frequency vibrations, but this would affect timbre more than pitch I think; not the first peak in the spectrum, but the 2nd 3rd or 4th components. This method will not yield something that correlates perfectly with blade speed, but it will still be useful, especially comparing...

They can and will punish them severely without ending their career. I have no doubt this will cost them ($$ if nothing else). Their performance at the next tournament could suffer if this affair distracts from their training. Watch for upsets at National Games.

I prefer to think of it as quarantining his love/singing/philanthropy stuff off from other threads. Better this way.

Generally known simply as "Dream" in Houston (short for Hakeem tbe Dream, a nickname he got in college, also in Houston, because he was so insanely smooth for his size). One of hbe five best centers in basketball history, along with Kareem, Wilt, Bill Russell, and Shaq

I hope LGL ends up doing something he enjoys.

You going to put something on this thread about table tennis or is tnis going tl be about ZJK the teen idol?