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Yes. Played a match a couple of weeks; won the first game 11-0, playing focused. Somehow lost that focus in the second game, arrived at 4-11 before I could even think "blueberry pie" and then had to struggle to regain focus, slowly, through a series of idiotic halfhits and unforced errors...

My club (https://tielsetc.nl) was founded in 1935 and has been existing, thriving at times, ever since as a separate, autonomous entity.

Who ruined what? It takes a lot of pieces, all fitting, to dominate the top level. I think it's pretty much common knowledge (and obvious, looking at recent past match history) that a part of the CNT dominance is in preparation/practice (something deeply involving coaches), and in being able...

I think Adam is enthusiastic and often funny, but he's also constantly over the top. That gets real old real quick, and starts to remind me frightfully of the videos my youngsters watch now and then of youtubers shouting their lungs out while gaming. Every now and then we have a commentator...

I do wonder, though, why the conic shape I got to be so fond of now only lives on in OSP blades, and kudos to R. Palatinus for that.

Justjazba, your goal being a spin-oriented game from second position, I would say: go for 2.0. This is an advice based upon caution. The step up from your current setup is significant already, and in my experience playing max thickness can be rewarding, but only when the basic techniques have...

Swift and frictionless contact, arrangement and delivery. Very good!

Opinions differ. I like 1.8 and 2.0, due to the flat hit options. If spin is all, max woukd be it.

Sounds like Timo Boll ALC to me.

That's exactly what I mean by selective bureaucratic rigidity. Rules abound, and many of them get broken more or less on a permanent basis; note, the underlying facts referred to by the rules are often muddy judgement cases. When to apply a rule strictly, when to enforce, there is ample room...

Yes, I received that disgraceful message also. Shame on you, ITTF, for the backhanding, the weaselwords, the selective bureacratic rigidity, and most of all for the lack of empathy, resulting in stern words of dubious intent expressing utterly displaced loyalty. Shame on you for even mentioning...

So. Played a doubles tournament last saturday, after playing a competition match in the small hours of friday night. The doubles tournament used the so-called Swiss system, in which everybody starts playing everybody but as things progress you get to meet opponents with about the same win/loss...

Great! And then I'll show you mine, and we can compare ours do Dima's and we'll reconsider whether or not his is any good, right? :cool:

Rain, you are truly a gift to this forum. Thank you.

Now show me yours. :rolleyes:

Hm. All too easily complex decisions get offloaded as if they were simple technological challenges. So, advanced technology for net hits, edge clips or side hit detection. Audio clues? Trajectory and velocity, spin extrapolation, baselining, anomaly detection? Sure. And if a player were to...

Yes, that’s how much of a nobrainer this should be. For the sakes of all concerned. I also happen to consider attempts to claim such lucky points to be in poor form. Conversely, though, I have no qualms about pointing such out on my disadvantage, sportsmanship in the end being a greater good...

Yes, I know. I can also use a socks proxy, terminated over an SSH session to a DE-based server, I know. It's just so saddening, this kind of childish, futile harassment, that knee-jerk anally retentive game of trying to micro-control access to content — after making it publically available on...

Seeing the zoomed-in slo-mo footage, I think it did graze the table very, very lightly. When viewing in real time I didn't think so, and had I refereed it the point would have been LSW's — based upon honest human observation.

"This video is not avaiable in your country." O tempora, o mores…