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Exactly :) and yeah, I did it at the end of the video :P. I first tried that ages ago and gave up actually, then I tried it again a few months ago and just kept trying to catch it there then eventually it clicked. It's quite a nice feeling getting the feedback of the spin and the sound of it...

Thanks, I can assure you I've never practiced spinning it like that on both sides before today. I'm always messing around with the ball before my games though, like spinning it in my fingers and stuff so I tend to pick stuff like this up quickly :). Like I said I had a lot of terrible attempts...

I agree that it helps. There's a book (you might've heard of it already) by an ex pro table tennis player Matthew Syed who wrote a book called Bounce - the myth of talent and the power of practice. I really recommend it to anyone who's into sport and it tackles that exact issue. I'm glad you...

I'll take it as a complement then, appreciate it. And in my defense I am quite good at and love learning these little skill things and being able to manipulate the ball well. If you've read my post in the second passions thread you can see how it is quite similar to this ;). I also hit the ball...

Practice, take a break, practice and think about feeling the ball :P. Rinse and repeat. I had a lot of attempts where I only did 1 - 5 or the ball would go all over the place, then I had a few attempts where I'd go quite far, then a few where it was 1-5 etc. Then this attempt which was the best...

It does take some patience but there we go, I can see it getting a bit addictive after a while :D.

Is there an example video of this being done? I thought it was on killerspins channel but I can't find it. Can't do the serves as I'm on holiday and don't have access to a table, but I'll give this one a try :)

More brilliantly fake than the Bruce Lee video! ;)

Haha, I'd be surprised if anyone knew, but that is me on the right indeed!

decided to record me and my teammate warming up/messing around yesterday. I feel this is something I have to start doing more, it feels strange to watch myself play but could be so useful. Hopefully I can get him to record some actual games with me next season. Good fun to try new things and...

Hey guys, is there anyone else on the forum that's going to BUCS this year? I'll be there representing Plymouth university, if anyone is keen for a knock when we're there next week let me know! :D

I found the square bat the guy in the white t-shirt in the background is using to be quite interesting (and why is he wearing a white t-shirt, that's a table tennis sin! :D). Someone from my old club uses a square and larger than normal bat for chopping as well, I wonder how common it is.

I don't think I've ever seen a player where I play in a white t-shirt, it's understandable that it can be bothering! In the local league where I play it's illegal to wear a white t-shirt and even white shorts. A pet peeve for me are players who are obnoxious, don't encounter them too often...

This is such a good post. Such a humble player, yet a master. It's very sad to see people speculating and creating no end of conspiracy theories. It's so pointless, we will never know. Just enjoy the table tennis that these two amazing players have provided us.

So happy to see ML win, amazing performance, a bit embarrassing for the people hyping Zhang Jikes performance up so much however. Incredible table tennis, some of the points were out of this world.

This is fantastic table tennis, both are playing out of their skin, amazing topspin to topspin rallies!

I agree with Carl. I do like the way Cho sounds and I find it more fitting when it's coming from the chinese or even the japanese or anyone who's been brought up with saying it, I've done it a few times myself but I find it a bit silly. I'm half swedish so now instead I just say something to...

Thanks, it still just sends me to that video, guess I'll settle with the french one instead.

Does anyone have the BBC link for the next game? Everytime I press play it just sends me to the ping pong prodigy video.