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Like I have said, good players agree with @ThePongCommenter, you can stick with the amateur fan psychologists.. I will go with the good players. You can think whatever you want. You can be right but it will not make you a better player. These are some of the kinds of arguments that I had...

He can play his club mates who use pips so he is fine, he is just intimidated by your description and overwhelmed by the volume of discussion - it makes him want to defend himself...

Miu Hirano decided to wait though... but at least, if she does well here, we may be reminded of her ability to handle pressure since she is a chosen one...

In league in Austria, it is a bit different (so not always able to get a new event to practice at the next week) and he doesn't play many tournaments. But life is life, he will figure it out eventually if he can and he really needs and wants to improve. I agree with the rest of your post. But...

The narrative is just a typical concoction. We are led to believe that Harimoto, Hirano and Hayata were not the best performing players in Japan which limited the Olympics qualifications to just internal matches for the very reason that world ranking was hard to make fair, and that it was a...

Well Miu 1 beat Miyu 2 and Miyuu 3 has already been eliminated. So I guess we will have to wait patiently for the Miyu(u)s to be given a fair chance to represent Japan since they have been discriminated against (as opposed to losing to people at a higher clip than the teammates that qualify...

Nothing is built in a day, it is clear you want to beat good players which is the most important thing, you compete and have a rating which will keep you honest (it shouldn't be the only focus, but it will give you something to work with over the years). Good players (@songdavid98 would be...

Forget about improving then, this is table tennis 101 and needs to be done in training and matches to get to a good level. You have to recognize the play faster to prepare faster and take advantage of the opponent faster. The alternative is to find ways to handcuff the opponent so that they are...

Saarbrucken won the first leg 3-0. So if there was aggregate in place (not sure what the specific aggregate rules were), the match might have been technically over after Truls won the first match and the rest were just for fun and pride. Gauzy and FZD did a slightly better job of masking the...

Some opponents do both variations on one or both sides, so you have to read their variations. None of that really detracts from the general point that you need to read spin and you need to use your understand of spin and your understanding of your technique to figure out what must have been on...

Most of what you are looking for is found in the land of technique. Equipment does important things, but @songdavid98 is doing you a favor by not entertaining your equipment nonsense. The good news for you is that you haven't entirely wasted your time and you know how to keep the ball on the...

No, Lin doesn't. He is known as one of the hardest working players on the team. The problem is that most amateurs read stories into things they don't understand and turn a technical problem into a psychological one. Most of the players he lost to were just better players. Even in tennis...

To piggy back off this, one of the things that made me a much calmer player was coming to terms with my technical limitations. When you understand and appreciate the gap between your technique and optimal technique, you either adopt it or accept your own limitations and come up with your...

Massive upset in a match - spoiler!

Your technique is suboptimal. As @songdavid98 said, you are doing something wrong, you don't understand it is wrong, and you continue doing it. And then under pressure it fails you, but you think it is you, not realizing that what you are doing is wrong even if you think it is correct.

Okay. At a certain point you will have to figure it out yourself if it works for you. I have told you how better players think, you are free to disagree with them. This is not an unusual debate by the way, some people talk about Lin Gaoyuan's unreliable game, but some people say it is because...

There are lot of good internet coaches who if you pay them, can analyze your technique and give you recommendations. Some players who are lucky to be in good environments make fun of coaching. But whether remote or not, it is important to get someone to give you feedback on your technique in...

I know what you mean, but my point is that it is the framework that matters, but hitting the ball a lot in practice also matters because the framework can be right but without the right practice, one can lack confidence in it. Sometimes (and since you are young, you might not fully appreciate...

Here is a video that describes a part of what I think is optimal BH technique. Is this how you spin the ball? Do you feel as if you are pulling your racket into the ball everytime you play a backhand topspin? IF you do not, I would argue that your backhand technique is suboptimal. But if it...

I don't think anyone "understands" what they are doing, I would phrase this as "you don't have a good framework for what you are doing." or "your framework doesn't allow you to swing fast and add/adjust to spin, it just means either you make it or hit the ball softer". Sometimes, people play...