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Thanks all I tried a bit more earlier and gave up and just glued rubbers on anyway, there isn't much left on there but it's annoying. Never had anything like it. Even with extra glue layers on some weird glue is still left after taking it off. I also tried rubbing with left over rubber pieces...

Does anyone know of a trick to remove tiny bits of residue glue from blades? I borrowed some glue a while ago that was really thin and it has been hell to remove. I've scrubbed for ages and got most of it out from the middle, but there is still like a very thin layer and residual glue...

They don't need to slow the game down, they need to focus on marketing and creating table tennis culture. I don't think there are less players these days because of any ball or rule change, it's because the culture around the sport has changed and because everyone's attention is being torn...

I have a bunch of clips on my channel - some multiball practice, messing around clips and highlights, I have matches too but they're unlisted and most are older as I lately don't tend to record those. Here are some of my videos: This video shows where I was at around when I started, though...

I had quite a tough season except for the last matches before the season break. I thought I found something with my backhand a while ago, but it has been so inconsistent that I've had to avoid it in most of my matches and mostly play FH. So most of my focus has been to be more consistent in...

Several reasons as others have said. If you followed every player close enough you'd notice every single one has at least some patches of downswings, it's pretty normal. Harimoto has been going through it, FZD has been through it, ML went through it, Pitchford, Falck.. so many players that I can...

I don't think I've seen BB say anything that's untrue, I find it hard to disagree with what he says. Though he does express himself in words that are quite unfamiliar to myself and others that aren't as versed in science as he is. In the end I really think most of us are saying very similar...

Awesome, you'll love it! I went to WTTTC in Halmstad with some guys from my club and it was such a nice experience. We went from Thursday to Sunday, the only regret I had is that we didn't stay the whole week. I also wish I could've seen the pros train. There the group stages didn't have much of...

Yeah I totally agree and I hope my post didn't give the impression of being rigid, it's rather the opposite. My point was really that what if a coach came and started criticizing his technique just because it didn't "look" like a pros and then started to mess with it just because they were...

Experience and very good feeling for the ball will often beat "good looking mechanics". I say good looking mechanics because there are players that mindlessly copy the technique of pros (for the sake of looking like them, not for the efficiency of the technique) without understanding how they...

You should be feeling it mostly in your dominant leg, quad and glute muscles (for the FH). It's no surprise that the pros have such big quads and strong legs. And their movement is so efficient you can hardly tell. That's what makes this so difficult, a lot of it is difficult to spot even when...

Played a tournament for the first time in 2-3 years yesterday. There were some nerves.. but they calmed down later in the day. I lost in the quarter finals 2-3. But I'm still happy with how I played, it was quite an epic match, got some nice points out of it, this being one of them:

This advice feels a bit outdated. These days To be able to quickly switch to backhand many players play FH even with their feet parallel. But it depends really from where you're hitting your FH and the type of ball. There can't be a hard rule on how to exactly position your feet because there is...

I honestly feel like I'm just plagiarizing Brett Clarke's work so all the credit should go to him. I really recommend checking his stuff out. He has a video of me where he helped improve my FH against backspin.

I was rotating like a madman to get more power in the second video and I'm seeing a physiotherapist as I did get some problems with my right hip from around this time lol, I can't remember it feeling strained but it wasn't good. So yes - you are correct!

Thanks for your comment, always happy to hear your feedback! Yeah, you're right. And my non-playing hand has always been awkward, in my older videos I have it completely down by my side and it looked very awkward, I've been trying to fix it by raising it to keep the balance a bit better. But...

I think it's more that I sometimes don't anticipate where the push or where the next shot is going.We're playing for fun and don't always go full out on every point, we get a bit lazy and mess around like you saw in one of the points. We've played each other a billion times. Right now I train...

Glad it helped! A few years ago I'd also have some occasional back pain from practice, I think because I was twisting my waist and doing some odd things with my back a lot. I remember Nextlevel said I played a lot of "upper body" table tennis. He was pretty spot on. Funny how I've wandered...

Yeah you need to find that feeling. I think it's important to do things in the "right" order. This channel talks quite a bit about that, I've found it useful: There are many ways to do it, I just think pushing with the legs is the most efficient. Like I said, you could turn the waist and still...

From my experience, most players and coaches do think that using the legs is important. There's a lot of talk about weight transfer. But there seems to be some confusion as to how it's done and over emphasis that one should "use" the wrist, forearm etc. Maybe it's just a language problem and...