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It's one of the unspoken secrets of TT. You have a great and tricky server in your club, and you struggle with the serves but get tolerably bad at returning his serves. Then you go to a tournament and you face a tricky server with a similar serve. And after a couple of serves, you go - this...

Your form is supposed to break down when you start anything in TT, you ae not supposed to start out being good at it, and you may never really even get good at it, you just have to get better at it. This is the hurdle people who focus on good looking technique sometimes never cross, they don't...

This is overstated. There is some value to play players below your level or players with weird styles once in a while. But doing it too often or almost exclusively except as part of regular training will degrade your level. You need quality opponents who play with the right speed and quality...

That's why everything costs money in life. Many people would not take jobs they don't want to take otherwise.

On another thread. How many threads on serve return issues do you have? Being unable to consciously read a serve is a problem, but very often, if you have a technically correct return stroke, you will find that you will return many serves when you cannot read then. This happens simply because...

Do whatever you want. What you are looking for is not in equipment. I have not drifted off topic, I have told you that taking every problem you have to the forum is a waste of time. If you are going to train with the players, pick the equipment you want to train with, hit a couple of balls...

Then your drills are poor and do not challenge your anticipation.

A lot of people told you the solution to this and you argued to high heavens with them so they left you to go your own way. You need to develop short stroke (forearm and wrist technique. but mostly forearm) that can use small swings at the ball to generate quality on both forehand and...

No, you are not brushing too much, not everyone has the same style or timing or approach to the game. Focus less on technique and focus more on what the ball quality is doing to the opponent out of a specific pattern and what shot you should have selected. Brushing and driving are situational...

No, the thicker player doesn't slap his forehand, he is big and strong so his spin is much heavier than yours, he doesn't need to put in special effort to get a quality ball. You need to understand what you are watching, even you have a higher quality ball than you realize you do, the problem...

The s backhand serves are mostly long. You will miss most of them initially when you attack them but you have to continue to attack them until you start making the attacks and force the opponent to serve short enough that you can push with quality . Adjusting to a ball is all about knowing...

You watched those matches and your conclusion was that you need to change your forehand rubber? Seriously?

If WCQ was right handed, Tomo would eat him for dinner. That is my view.

Okay. So what does all this mean? One of the things you do which I hope you are aware of is that you coach yourself in a way that is very different from how you would coach someone else. Would you write the stuff you are writing now to someone in your position looking for advice? How would...

The reason you don't get that ball as easily is that the other player is better than you. So you are not used to anticipating it and getting into position to hit it. But your game is already good enough, you just need to play more and train more with good players and get better at controlling...

Anyone who knows how to play against anti/non-topspin and can control heavy topspin, both of which the Japanese ladies excel at, is going to give Winter problems. I don't think it is a Japan problem, I think it is a "who are you going to beat to get the points you need at critical stages in a...

He keeps thinking this is the answer and that is his problem. Not the equipment. Not even his technique. He just needs to select shots and take more risks. He already plays the shots he claims he can't play.

Yeah, but to reach the finals at Montpellier, where none of the top 3 played if IIRC, who did she play? I think the best player she beat was Shin Yubin. So she would have to hope for more of such events where the top players don't play. The World Cup will definitely give us more info (in...

So the problem is how to rack up the points to get there. She will need to have more wins like those against Chen Xingtong (though the rumor is that Chen was injured and playing below par) and at the right stage of tournaments. But when I look at the players in the top 15, I don't see which...

Budget combines price and intention. Aura there is no intention and it isn't cheap enough to just buy to test. Harimoto SZLC I have played with quite a bit and I can re-sell if I don't like it. I also get Butterfly at discount.