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As usual, since you cited a post of mine, can you in plain English explain what I went back on (usually not a big deal in the presence of changing evidence but I digress)? At least everyone can see how you think when you attack a reasonable observation as "cringeworthy", but it is okay, I like...

Mixed Teams not so sure. CNT women are too dominant. But yes your point about it seeming to be well timed to favor the Chinese is precisely the main point. Unfortunately we were driven into a pronunciation of "potato" discussion related to it.

There is no men's team event at LA 2028!

Looks like Pitchford is back and in great form - what is he playing with now?

Crazy point - looks like Pitchford is fully healthy and that Grenzau got a steal.

Good to see Pitchford back...

So what seed do you think Japan would have as a men's team and what seed do you think it would take to have a very good shot? Historically, we never even discussed the possibility of any other team than China winning. If you agree that Japan is in the mix for the gold and they would be a top...

Many players who uses Zyre without a transition period say it feels too quick. But when you use it for a longer time and do certain things with it, you learn that the sponge can feel like the ball stays on it forever. It is something that for some players, you can't just take your feelings and...

Dima and Mizutani have similarly bad records vs Ma Long. Unfortunately, neither Team Japan or Germany learned the lesson to deny these players (both Olympic medallists) the ability to play for bronze medals in Olympics singles or get them off their silver medal winning teams simply because they...

Unfortunately, some fans are so desperate to try something different in the face of losing that they think trying something different is everything. People have bad days, things go wrong and massive surprises can happen. Even with all the competitive matches they have had, how many people...

Haha - it very much does when you get used to it - you can feel like you are holding the ball forever.

I beg to differ, some pros boost and that creates a difference. Also, some players just won't max out the potential of the sponge and will prefer 2.5. While I don't always feel a difference, I get the impression my feeling with 2.5 is better.

Chen Yi and Kuai Man are making progress. Let's see how it goes.

He does but since the team is not the same as the Chinese team in terms of command structure, he needs to justify his decisions in both the service of the individual and the team. Good results and team buy-in resolve everything but bad results will create coat vs benefit questions. It just...

Who was ZQH going to beat? He had lost to both Japanese aces recently. Honestly WRB outperformed. Without a heroic performance by Harimoto, it would have been BAU.

In life and table tennis, often what is *said* is not where the information is, it is in absorbing the behaviors and practices of the people around you. If you join a company or even train to be an engineer or a research scientist, they are always things they show you and things you learn...

You are spending enough time that most people would expect that you would take a serious crack at being the best you can be. And that if you are giving people advice on how to play better, you are giving it from a position of success and experience. So when they see the advice and the playing...

You have it wrong, the words don't make you right. The results speak for themselves. If you had it right you would play better or develop strong players. That's ultimately the bottom line. You need to actually have some success with the concept to make it work in table tennis. Because their...

How many hours a week do you spend playing or practicing table tennis? IF it is more than 3 hours and especially if it is closer to 10, it begins to be a bit defensive to quibble over definitions of serious. The truth is that anyone with a hour to four hours of recorded training from a serious...

One of the principles I try to work with when I teach adult learners (because their experience makes them have stories that inhibit the learning process - kids haven't had the time to develop those stories) is that everything should feel unsafe when you first do it, but the key is to focus on...