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Very impressed with Tikhonov. Looks like another bomb that lost some of his prime junior years waiting to detonate with enough opportunity.

It has been interesting watching Coach Kihara at this event.

Well zeio believes the lost gen would do better if given a chance and their failure to defeat the golden generation shouldn't matter. I guess we needed another reminder in this tournament about where the problem truly lies though one could also have discerned that simply by observing that Miwa...

Since he plays for Kazakhstan, is there an exposure story there? Or Fang Bo purely plays for Kazakhstan while never training with other players from the country? Sincerely asking, have no clue.

How many amateurs of the kind you are describing play tournaments or spend hours in table tennis clubs? Many amateurs test rubbers while playing matches - it is very common. Some also play tournaments using a rubber for the first time - that comes down to how much you care about your...

Usually, most beginners are limited by cost and expectations. In reality, beginners who are taught how to adapt can start reasonably well with almost anything especially if they are young. If they are coached and able to relax and adapt their grip, they can do far better than some of the...

Or you will train more so that you can grow into what you use and close the technical gap for using the material. If you play with a slow linear bat, it can put strain on short technique and lead to large swings or tense squeezing of slow rackets to get power. It can be easier to develop good...

No, you are not changing your technique, you are changing how you expect to feel when you hit certain shots - the feeling of what happens is different and you need to adjust it. IT is like moving to a new house and then assuming you will access everything like you in your last house exactly the...

Yes, there is always a tradeoff between speed and control. People often focus on and overvalue the kind of absolute control that comes with lots of training and think about how lower rated players can get that and undervalue the kind of one shot power or two shot power that can come with using...

Sometimes, I wonder whether the absence of a global rating TTR system is detrimental to people. That said... Your opinion is broadly applicable to all Butterfly rubbers and most top end rubbers as a suitability issue with respect to level of player and price vs performance. The problem is...

Zyre is both the fastest and the spinniest rubber in the Butterfly line up. When someone uses something like D09c and like it, D09c creates a feeling of safety that is hard to beat when you put in effort. But there is also a speed loss and a spin loss that comes with that speed loss on *some*...

The jet lag continues. Hayats and Togami do not know how to play XD so far. Getting killed by a Russian pair...

His physical style predisposes him towards injury driven drops. I don't think his level is dropping, it is just the demands of the WTTC schedule require him to manage his health better, he can't play every event so he needs to figure out something. I think he needs to change his style a bit...

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it really fall? I think you are letting your biased experience blind you. More seriously, all pros can push short, it is the ones that do it to win points that get respect. If Togami was so good at it, he would go out of his way to win...

Togami's chiquita is definitely superior to a lof of the players you listed.

Maybe banana flick counts as having short game? Maybe we are focused on short push and he is focused on over the table strokes...

He gets to play in Almaty and put that short game to work...

Thanks, I think you have read Matt's comments here and come to your own conclusions as well. You created a minor stir, but the real issue is that such comments will be taken seriously by people who want to believe whatever they want to believe. And quite frankly, you made it clear that you got...

@kindof99 , @JustANoob , PM me the blade you want (which might not be the blade you get, but you will get something). Provide mailing address details. Thanks.