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Both. You can produce a high arc with a lobbing or fishing stroke by having an open racket angle where the ball bounces off the racket surface close to perpendicularly. So, precisely, throw angle is how close to parallel compared to the surface of the racket. If a blade can flex(the technical...

Well, it sort of worked, at increasing the retail price riding the hype. Textreme is going the same route. I can tell you Stiga is not doing as well financially, thanks to these "fails".

Well, it's a fun exercise to see how predictions panned out. Frankly, many feel WJP's various comments in the past year or so on Weibo were written to please the fans seeing they had to pay to ask him those questions.

Experiments have been made with celluloid balls in Japan. Don't have the numbers off the back of my head. Need to look that up. Plastic balls have also been experimented with by JTTA, but it appears they have not released it.

Remember the craze over carbon nanotubes(CNT), which are made of graphene, at the turn of the millennium? Stiga started using it in the gluing of their hardwood blades in 2008. The trademark name is Hybtonite, by Amroy, invented in 2005. Guess what? It didn't change the world.

4/2: Haifu TT Realm Issue 197: Michael Maze - Prince of Danish Table Tennis and His Legend 3/29: Coming-of-Age of the Ping Pong Kiddo(English Subbed) 3/18: STIGA VTT - Walder: My Bet is Still on ML for WTTC 2017(English Subbed) STIGA VTT Issue 101 - Waldner on WTTC 2015(English Subbed) 3/1...

Yes, for the time being, and the doubles pairing is fixed(BC v YZ). The 1st singles players, usually the strongest for both teams, will now meet in the 2nd match(A v X). The 3rd singles players will meet in the 3rd match(C v Z). That is a significant change. Like I explained earlier, under...

TIL TTD doesn't allow posting a quote only.

Oh, and happy lunar new year to everyone.

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Good question. He is officially with the CTTA now, a civilian organization that is functionally separate from the Table Tennis & Badminton Sports Management Center, the de facto governmental organ that is in charge of the CNT.

The 2018 ITTF Team World Cup is right upon us Liu Guoliang took the chance to analyze the prospect for the CNT Noting the challenges waiting ahead of us And identified those potential players of whom we should be most vigilant 我還是相信中國隊能贏的 但是在局部的場次和打法之間 如果處理不好的話，會有一些反覆 I still believe China can...

Speed: 95 Spin: 100 Control: 90 Rubber: 1.9mm Bryce

The most interesting part of the new format is the 1st singles match. Due to the fixed pairing of doubles in the new format, the 1st singles spot is now fixed for both teams, meaning the strongest player of each team is pitted against each other, 100% guaranteed. As the doubles is played first...

I will miss the day when Rosskopf made a strategic error that led to Germany's defeat to Japan in the team SF.

Update on Feb. 9th: https://www.ittf.com/tournament/2873/2018/ittf-team-world-cup/

In the latest update on the Team World Cup 2018 page on February 9th, it is announced the former TBC system will be replaced by the new Olympic test playing system. It's gonna be doubles first, followed by 4 singles, and the order of play is fixed after the coin toss, and thus no more...

I have a dream that one day the entire World Ranking list will be flooded with Chinese players. It is gonna be all Chinese, so no more nationalism. Yes! By doing exactly that my dream will be achieved.

Miu Hirano plays with the vanilla Clipper Wood. Played some of the most fantastic table tennis in late 2016 and early 2017.

Describe in one word the moment Szocs took the title. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!