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Kreanga 11-4

Great read. Thank you Zeio. To me it reads like a slump, especially since Lou Guoliang says "because he already possesses the skills of a champion". For sure it will be difficult for him, but I believe he can make it through. Seems much more like a mental battle to him than a technical one...

I just think he's going through a slump, just like many many other top players have. Isn't it pretty normal? This is all seems like speculation. Do we really have a clue as to what's going on with FZD? It would be interesting to hear what technical changes he made, does anyone know?

I've been using my acoustic for about 4 years now thanks to Carl who suggested it to me and I like it a lot. Mine is a bit head heavy, but I haven't been able to justify switching. I get enough speed and short game feels better than anything else. Though I will say I have not tried much else. If...

It isn't an upset. Wang Chuqin is just obviously a ridiculously good player. Just look at how he performed this tournament. After his win over Harimoto I wasn't surprised he'd end up winning it all. Incredible performance.

I'll be at Stockholm Open too from tomorrow to Sunday. Hopefully I'll be able to train at spårvägen tonight. I don't live in Stockholm but I've been at spårvägen a few times before, great club. Jonathan, when were you thinking of going to the club?

And I don't think his FH is that weak relative to his rank considering the players he has beaten (not just those in Bulgaria Open). Could it be better? Yes and they have clearly been working on that. Regardless, I think it's very impressive that he can get to where he is at if his FH really is...

I think his achievements and wins at 16 years old, with such a "weak" FH is impressive. And I don't think the opponents he has beaten so far regardless of ranking are weak. Maybe you have too high expectations of him? It will be interesting to see his FH development in the next few years. He's...

Marcos Freitas isn't a strong opponent? Zhao Zihao isn't strong? He has beaten almost all top chinese players before.. pretty good achievements for not having a strong FH, wonder what will happen when it becomes strong ;)

I really agree with this. The more stuff I know I can work towards improving the more I'm enjoying it, because then every drill has a purpose and then when I play games I try to get the technique going there too. It's a bit like everything, when you have some sort of meaning or purpose to what...

I've done some work on my bh which was non existent in games before. Lately I've put work into fh against backspin and making sure I use my body better/properly to drive my arm instead of just using my arm muscles. The same goes for bh, I want my body to drive the action more and I also...

I appreciate any criticism. Always good to get different points of view. The last few months or so my performance has been volatile as there's a few things I'm trying to change technically. TTedge and NL has helped me a lot. NL has especially helped me with my BH...

I'm trying to get rid of exactly this too. Someone in my club told me last year that I should snap my forearm more.. so I started doing that consciously and now after knowing better from ttedge I'm trying to get rid of it again and just letting my arm snap without any effort from the force of my...

https://youtu.be/aK3NaT1Fh4M?t=27 When I'm hitting the FH's here at the start other than the last one.. am I doing it correctly or should I be rotating my hips even further back and forward? Ok I'm a bit stressed for time here as I'm doing fh all over the table.. but I think when I'm hitting...

Thanks for this NL, I think I see what you mean. So I think I need to plant my left foot more firmly on the ground so I can spin my left hip back and forward.. and then not let both my feet leave the ground. I guess it should be more that the toes rotate a bit forward from the hip rotation but...

Yep I agree, are you sure you mean left foot? I often step in with my right foot and then I'm in a bad position to play the next shot, especially if it goes to my BH. I've been trying to work on it and making better use of my right hand as it's just down when I play, but that's less important...

Wow what compliments, thank you guys! Very motivating for me :)

Since I've been recording quite a lot the last 6 months or so I decided to put together a small compilation. Incidentally I also had some recordings from around the time I started playing which I put in there. Funny the way I saw table tennis back then compared to now. I really had no clue at all.

Poor Koki :(. What can he do?

It would be interesting to hear people's thoughts on what "greatest" means to them. What do people think? What's the most important factor for a player to be the greatest? If we changed it to most dominant player of all time who are the other contenders than ML? I don't know this btw, I don't...