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I actually didn't find this surprising at all. Liam is playing incredibly well and I thought Harimoto was bound to lose his mental composure at some point. This is actually a good thing for Harimoto, I'm sure he'll learn a lot from it. What's up with these posts trying to create drama? Can't we...

There are many but I especially love Koki Niwa!

I just got back from seeing this Live, amazing.. I've never even seen anything close to this level in real life before.

If you check my last post, that video was filmed using a gopro 3+. I didn't think it turned out too bad but there are probably better alternatives. It's easy to set up, but I'm not sure the fish eye lens is that useful as darucla mentioned. Edit: this video -

I've moved back to Sweden (where I'm originally from) and recently joined the same club as another forum member (Nicky Franck). We've had some good practice together and just started filming. I've only seen myself play a few times so its been very useful to see what I'm actually doing. Here's a...

Hey, for reading service try to pay close attention to what your opponents bat is doing at contact. What types of service receive errors are you making? Are you popping the ball up or downright losing the point on his serve? That you don't know how to receive serves you haven't seen before is...

Seems to me that he's just bringing it up as an issue and that the ITTF ought to do something about it. "In order to prove this, the Rubber has to be removed from the racket and sent to the lab. That's what I am encouraging since long ago. But the International Association considers this...

Obviously there are also another set of cues for each variation of his reverse pendulum which you would also have to learn. Some are more obvious which one picks up on first (particularly the pre-serve routine), the others take more thought etc. It was just an example. Like you said in that...

With this I feel like there's a wide range of things that when they all come together help you "see" the ball early. When first learning those cues I guess you have to pay attention to them but with time it should be largely automatic and this is how you get good at anticipating where the ball...

I'm embarrassed because I've read of enough of your posts that I should know that you're not being serious in this case ;).

Haha, Sadly not! I don't know how often Waldner comes back but Mikael Appelgren is one of the coaches here so he's bound to be there often during the league season. My dad is friend with an ex pro golfer who's friends with Waldner, the golfer told me I was gonna get to meet him but I feel its...

I'm visiting my dad in Stockholm at the moment and visited Spårvägen BTK which is the club where Waldner and Mikael Appelgren came from. The standard in Sweden seems much higher than England, at least than the city I was studying in. <blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en"...

Mine are very short and I can do it, like suds said, curl your fingers in more. I found the best way to learn was to just practice catching the ball with your fingernails without spinning it at all, then spin it a little bit and keep increasing the spin. Then you'll find after a few days or...

This is true. It's also worth saying, even though these are top professional players, playing a 13 year old boy is probably not something they are used to. They also need to adapt, be it mentally or tactically. It's easy to talk the talk, walking the walk is bound to be quite different, at...

According to a Japanese woman I've often played against in the past who follows the japanese table tennis scene closely, Niwa doesn't cho because that's his strategy. Whenever he has cho'd it's because he's been told to. Apparently he was told to cho more in the olympics for the spectators, but...

The thing is, I don't think anyone disagrees with you. It's completely obvious that no one wants to see their hero or favourite player lose. And what you're saying here seems to be direct contradiction to what you've said previously. You're now saying that you "want him to fight to death rather...

ML vs FZD has to be the most interesting match. Though I really enjoy watching him play any player, as it just shows how good his game is. It's incredible to see how he's developed over the years although I've only really followed him for the last few years since taking table tennis more...

I was just watching this, very interesting. Liu Guoliang talking about the pressures and the issues he's had to deal with. I was surprised to find out the CNT wasn't particularly popular among young people before rio and that they suddenly gained lots of popularity after the event. You can tell...

On Sunday I went to play at the usual sessions I go to but was conscious of the time as I wanted to be back for 7PM when the Harimoto vs XX game started. Of course I forgot the time and played one match too many, looked at the time and it was 7.30 or something. I decided to sprint back home up...

Nothing wrong to have that opinion but your statement is a bit black and white. Many people including me would rather see them play and enjoy themselves, regardless of results. If you actually see them as your hero or are a fan of them then you should be happy for them regardless. Of course it's...