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He had to find the feeling to avoid the Pitchford return game with quality.

Maybe, but i am.not one of them and I know people who use Sriver and Mark V. None of them are power looper. None of them focus on playing topspin loops repeatedly. When you play topspins loops with unglued Mar V or Sriver, you need to loop upwards to add topspin. Strokes that combine spin...

I could understand it to a good degree in the cell ball days when the ball was relatively easy to get moving and might have been harder to feel with carbon. But with the plastic ball sometimes I feel like I am playing tennis...

The materials that go into rubbers are relatively cheap so the marginal return on sales is likely very high while things like marketing and manufacturing are likely largely fixed costs with the incremental costs of materials relatively low vs what users pay for the rubbers.

Yes, the second time he said it, it was the Butterfly promotional video. But he had expressed a similar idea in his book that compiled his interviews over the years when speaking about rubber thickness for young players. He encouraged people to start with 2.0mm sponge at the minimum to Max...

I never submitted the poll lol. But I was pretty sure I was at 11/12 but I wasn't sure who won their internal poll lol.

ZYL was more of defender herself when she played, I suspect she will be fine. Yangzi Liu had a fine win over Lee Eunhye. She seemed to let go of her nerves down 0-1, 7-10 in game 2 and then played well after that.

LLMs are known to hallucinate lol...

Kanak will learn but he threw away a great draw.

To be fair, his original advice was given in the context of rubber thickness but he did extend his logic to rubbers like Rozena vs Tenergy etc when the question was posed to him later. The cynic in me says this was partly inspired by his sponsors, but regardless, given the role of adaptation, I...

Best episodes ever from what is a good youtube channel about a fit adult learner trying to get better at table tennis:

A reminder to the people who think using pips is some kind of voodoo - when you get to practice against them regularly, your advantages tend to show up - they rely upon your instincts being slower/wrong against their balls to do maximum damage.

This is really a matter of framing and judging using standards that do not promote adaptation. I had a coach once tell me to push topspin serves into the net and push backspin serves off the table. He believed doing this would encourage me to understand my ball control and strokes better. It...

Looks like Duesseldorf gave Stumper the experience of leading the team since the result probably doesn't have any meaning on their playoff standing. Stumper lost to both Kanak and Ruiz but the hero was Rassenfosse with his insirped win over Boll. Jha could have made it a surprising 3-0 but...

At 2-1, 10-8, Ioneacu serves into the net and goes on to lose the match to Togami and given how Hugo was playing effectively ended the match right there.

Thanks. The funny thing is that I watched both matches live and my ignorance of German makes me unable to tell the difference between the cup and the league lol.

Both players are using the hardbat in hardbat competitions - short pips no sponge with an all wood bat. The rallies look spinny but relative to inverted, the ball is really dead.

K3 Pro, which is more like Jekyll and Hyde 55. Not really a bad rubber, and given the durability requirements of pros, the boosted effect doesn't affect them as much as amateurs since we don't wear out our rubbers every week or other week.

Then who knocked out Fulda lol?

Who knocked out Duesseldorf?