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Because some guy from the CNT will knock them off the team. Who was going to do that to Waldner? Fabian Akerstrom?

You could also make a case for WLQ and his 48 months continuously ranked #1 in the world. People forget how nearly unbeatable he was in his prime. He overlapped with an amazing number of great players.

I have quite a few serves like that, opponent has to be at a certain level to be fooled by them. People below that level don't know what they don't know! For the lower players just serve basic and play a half decent third ball that is not telegraphed.

I also love Waldner's fakes at the end of the motion. I am going to go watch some more videos of Mitzutani to watch his serve in real matches.

NL, you are right, maybe I am too dense to pick up on the dry satire. Apologies if so.

Very Swedish point of view but a pretty good list. I would have put Ma Lin higher maybe. As for Waldner, there was so much more that he was doing besides just hiding the serve.

Very basic level. I think it is easier for people to learn how to get lots of spin and placement variation from the regular pendulum serve before trying to do reverse pendulum serve, which is a much harder motion to do.

I use something called gaffer's tape that I get from Amazon in a variety of cool colors. Sticks great, provides excellent protection, is cheap, and doesn't leave residue behind when you remove it...

NL, Perhaps you noticed the short lived minja incarnation known as laabkuf? Somebody else had to point out to me that I should spell it backwards. If only I really was a Canaanite fertility deity. :cool: Anyway, just like that ---- poof --- he was gone. I have to give Dan here about 1...

XSF etc. truly have no seams. They are truly seamless because their manufacturing process is radically different from what was used for celluloid. Nittaku Japan 40+ have seams but they are very small and hard to see. They use some new method to put the two halves of the ball together and they...

A couple of nice matches. Hidden serves. Small balls. Speed glue. 21 point games. I used to try to copy Gatien's serves.

A couple of days ago I was pretty close to packing it in.

Some threads at TT forums get taken over by armies of squealing Orcs.

I think I know the dude in the cave!!! ;)

Sharara would look at that and want to slow the game down more. As for me, I am speechless. Amazing.

Is there a Las Vegas betting line yet, an over-under on how long this thread will go? 12 pages already.

It is pretty interesting how knowledge of physics and math does not always lead to knowledge of chemistry (or how to evaluate the human mechanics of a table tennis stroke). Substances that cause oxidation of metals are in the vast majority of cases not going to cause oxidation of rubber and...

Peter, the problem you face is that you posted a video of your shot. People who have played a lot of table tennis in their life pretty much don't need to know any physics or engineering to be able to evaluate your stroke. I can see why T25 is ok for what you do. For people who actually hit a...

Brilliant distillation.

Bear in mind though, in the Korbel example, I believe it was the routine Ma Long goes through on his own serve. Correct me if I am wrong about that.