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You can generate a great deal of deceptiveness in spin, trajectory and placement. That is more important than absolute amount of spin, but also you might be surprised how much spin you can get. These days I use variations of this on about 2/3 of my serves. Top Chinese women have been using...

Read the Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey. You may be thinking about this too much.

Mine costs less than a dollar. She is really nice to look at though.

Heavy spin is one way, it and it is definitely useful, but it is not the only way to stop that. Low is sometimes more important than heavy. I have learned to keep serves low enough that professional players cannot systematically flick them at me. (Of course these players are much better than...

Agreed. The thing is, the spin on the serve doesn't need to be vastly different than it appears to be to get the receiver to mess up. It just has to be somewhat different than it appears to be. If you try to go for super heavy serves, like a ghost serve, it will probably be really obvious to...

I am glad that one of the handful of Grand Slam winners in our sport gets to defend his gold medal. There will be time for FZD. And XX has never accomplished as much in big events.

Yes but nothing stopped them from expanding the draw. It was a transparent move to keep China from sweeping medals and it flies in the face of what sports should be about -- especially individual sports like table tennis. Let the best players play.

Go get two chopsticks or wooden pencils, and a large clip that is used for holding large documents together. The clip needs to be large enough to be able to attach the chopsticks or pencils to the net posts. Tie a string between the two chopsticks. You can vary the height of the string by...

Any serve can be effective if it turns out to be something that is different from what you think it is. One of my favorite playing partners tends to serve conservatively and very low at a fairly optimal depth, and it's not easy to do much with it except when he occasionally sends one too...

I probably would have stuck with what was working but it doesn't matter because i seems to me that you got exactly what you wanted with your long serve when you opponent more or less popped it up. You executed it well and it took him by surprise. Don't second guess it now. Stress-level was...

have to say that I admire someone who actually took the time to check it out. I hope you are right.

Maybe now that is the case, JSH is not young anymore (36) and has also been battling some severe health problems that reemerge periodically. XX never made it to the singles final of a grand slam event, and JSH did (beating Ma Lin, Kreanga, and Chuang Chih-Yuan). He had a win over Wang Liqin...

Yes, I was just about to write something like this. It was what I was getting at when I asked someone to identify for me just what they thought was a blocking rubber vs looping vs driving, etc.

G40+ is on average 2.75g, exactly the same as XSF. Nittaku Japan are the lightest at around 2.68 g. Chinese seamed ball weight depends on when they are made, older ones around 2.80, now around 2.75. Funny thing is that how "heavy" they feel when you play with them doesn't just depend on how...

Please give examples of what you think these are, especially for looper, driver and blocker.

I don't know about tournaments in Europe, I've never attempted it. I found it easy to find places to play in Sweden, Lithuania, Germany and UK, mainly through contacts on table tennis forums. German play seems to slow down a lot in the summer. There are clubs everywhere but most are open...

And bankrupt every small table tennis club in the world who would now forced to replace all their tables? :mad: Also, good luck reaching to a net ball.

Yes, that is what statistics say. With that said, even though I am pretty tall, I don't have a problem with current table height and it would make it a lot harder for kids to play.

If they do this mind-numbingly stupid rule change, we will all be studying old Appelgren videos. Suits me fine. Bad for the sport as a while.

I addition to everything Tonys said (including the net height stuff), I would like to add another way to look at the "half of the clubs" analogy with golf. If, like nearly all good defenders, you use a markedly different rubber on one side -- typically long pips on the backhand -- you have...