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I sometimes do that. However, to me that's part of the usefulness of shadow play in front of a mirror; immediate feedback while still creating autonomous muscle memory.

Translation gets me a sense of the content, but not that much of the tone and the plot between the lines. Rain, what do you make of it, all that talk of boredom, extended discussions of Ma Longs injuries in the long, hot Beijing summer, marriage, hopeful girls out to get Fan Zhendong, or the...

Not that much since Maze retired, I guess. I had to dive for a ball that clipped the net and then just caught the side edge of the table, bouncing sideways. I was halfway spinning it, but had to mend and make do and resort to a long chop. Which sailed cleanly past the net, slid horizontally...

So did Kristian Karlsson. In both games, the result might well have turned out differently. But that's the true mark of the champion — to finish first anyway in equal races.

Bad omens indeed — for the three coaches, for the three players, for the CNT, for table tennis in China, and for table tennis altogether. To me, this does begin to look like punishment. If so, the self-inflicted GAS (or is it GSA?) wounds are deepening.

Saw the Boll-Gerell match summary, and boy can Par Gerell serve, and boy that unforced errorfest. Timo head and shoulders the master, apparently.

@4:10 … just wow, dat Koki Niwa bakhand.

I ran into the following, Kalinic vs. Stojan: a struggle between two giants. Between two European penholders. Between a leftie and a rightie. It's not a match of equals (repeat after me: there is no such thing as a backhand. no such thing.), but yet I find this game suprisingly hard to read:

That is indeed the only question that should matter. Brands schmands, it's not the advertizing that determines quality.

The recent Czech Open U21 finals, especially the last two games, suggest there are two Can Akkuzus. The somewhat leisurely Can that had fun playing Dan, and an ultrasharp monster Can. It amazed me. Witness:

I find training against the robot very useful to internalize (automate) strokes and movement. Shadow training first, then a few thousand balls from a robot starting out with low frequency, upping the frequency, and then with variations in placement, depth, speed, spin — it helps to get things...

I used to play with the Carbon version of that blade, which to me resembles it quite closely (though it has a bit more kick when hitting through the sponge). I gave that blade to a friend who put Rozena 2.1 on it, and I think the combination works very well.

For the TL;DR crowd, here the distinction between active and passive play is made, and that resonates with me immediately; I actually ditched T05 because I just couldn't make it work in passive play, although it worked just fine when playing actively. When I decided I need to have both...

It depends. Which CNT?

Toying with Gewo Thunderball2 presently, and having a lot of fun with it. Insanely spinny, many gears, extremely controllable.

We have draws now?

Well… a girl can dream, as they say. I'd love to see a montage showing the evolution of the defensive style in "modern" (post-fifties). I find very little material, there; yet, at some point the defensive style was much more widely used. And at some point special rubbers got developed and...

Would there still such a gap with ML, FZD and XX out of the equation and ZJK struggling to recover?

I really appreciate these reminders that defensive styles do deserve a place in the spotlights, especially given the current dominance and prevalence of offensive ones. Sugoi!

This time I'm rooting for Ueda. For variety of life the spice is.