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This is true, kind of what I meant to say. Hanging with the speed is tough. And the speed does not bother them, and there is a great deal of sensorimotor adaptation that these really good players have. Consequently the 2100 just can't pressure the 2500 player very often. Somebody pasted a...

You hear this a lot on forums; "I' m not getting enough spin", and then the questions about technique vs equipment start in. I think more often the problem is people at the level of the OP just can't keep the ball on the table for any length of time with consistent controlled topspin. Once...

Somebody had one the other day. Not too bad.

Yesterday I was hitting with a partner using my bucket of training balls because I was working on one very specific thing that required a ton of repetition. It is about 98% XSF, a few Nittaku Japan 2-stars, one ridiculously worn Nittaku Japan 3-star 40+ (very very shiny with too many hours of...

Yes, they know the likely patterns that is big, but I would also add that on top of that they see trajectories really early (which I think may be related to starting the sport very early in life). So it is really hard to make them feel pressure, so then lower level players have to try to hit...

I think so.

In Houston at my club we have been mostly using XSF balls because they are cheaper while still decent. The other Houston club always uses Btfly 40+. (Not G40).

At one point we used to have a pretty good 4-start USATT tournament in my city, and we would usually raise some funds to pay the expenses of a world top 100 player to come play. One year I recall like it was yestereday that Thomas Keinath was our guy (because I contributed quite a bit, I got to...

That's one thing for sure, but there is a lot more to it than that.

My advice is for the time being don't worry about it. That will come with consistency as you progress. Right now you are thinking too much when you hit the ball. Relax. Concentrate on making transitions from forehand to backhand while still being able to hit controlled topspin shots. It is...

One thing 2100 players will notice when they play 2600 is that at the end, the 2600 guy is barely sweating. Lots of people have commented on this, it is almost a cliche? Why? Because they never have to move fast. Because they see everything much earlier, like I said they seem to move in slow...

This is going to sound obvious but I have to say it anyway. Everything is different. USATT ratings are not linear scales really, so the difference between 2600 and 2100 is greater than the difference between 2100 and 1600. There is no one single aspect in which a 2600 player is better than...

No, I think the answer is shear trial and error, so you figure it out yourself. That comes from multiball drills where someone feed you balls of various spins and speeds. As time goes on they feed you more varied balls but initially they concentrate on the balls you can make; then the balls...

One of the 2400 plus players at my club is constantly varying the speed of his loops, and the height and trajectory. You never feel comfortable. He is in his 40s now, but back when he was in his 20s he was just shy of 2600. Played the same way then only he moved better. As for the original...

If your mobility is reduced, the best thing you can do is improve your BH, so you can play more in the center of the table. Part of the reason Primorac was able to stay at such a high level so long. But you don't want either side to be a complete liability. For me, FH was always more natural...

I am inspired by this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No way to know without playing with it. I once hit with a more obvious fake that was nothing at all alike a real Viscaria.

It is slow but it is a really good blade, fantastic feel and weight distribution. There is more to a blade than just overall speed level, and the Appelgren All is one of the classics, deserving of much more widespread use. It is the same reason that a Viscaria is not just another ALC blade...

1. One thing about balls is that the overall hardness can affect how heavy a ball feels. Either very soft or very hard can feel heavy. (Imagine kicking a partially deflated football, it often feels heavy even thought it is actually a bit lighter). Also of course diameter and smoothness...

Clear fake. Note misspelling of word Arylate. Some of the older genuine blades misspelled performance as "pefomance" but never to my knowledge as "peirformance", and the ones with a serial number that begins with N spell the word correctly (those are somewhat newer). I'm not sure about the M...