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I think the better option is actually to switch to D80 which blocks better but that is just me.

There is a point in returning short even if the person doesn't open up well. Quality pushes or attacks off short returns are harder especially for people who do not open up well, the real issue is whether you have the touch to return short with quality. So I would argue that what you are...

And there is also a dependence on how you like to play as well. Because if you take the ball off the bounce, you have less time to get off the table to defend. Easier to wait until the ball has come deep, push long while digging into thr ball and then have more time to get back to defend. That...

Nothing beats the blue sponge boosted. Nothing.

Yes, but the JTTA is too short sighted, the big picture is that China struggles vs pips and defense so they need to use the defenders while China still has this issue.

Don't worry, @zeio will soon run JNT and shake things up and they will get their chance...

The push as an attacker's weapon is designed to be played off a short ball. The reason is that it has a less distance to travel and often there is more opportunity to create angles, use speed and potentially keep the ball short. Playing it off a long ball takes speed out of the equation and...

Big leads completely unaffected by timeout calls to affect the momentum (because timeouts were never called) - my kind of TT match :ROFLMAO:.

Yep, this is a tactic I often use too. Definitely not as well as John does lol.

Hurricane 8-80 and Skyline 3-60 both have softer sponge if you are interested.

So this is my third match of the day and the best one that was played against an adult - it was the B vs C matchup to decide who qualified second in the group for the U2150. I tend to post the ones with kids less because they are young and don't need the visibility. Also was early enough that...

Well maybe I was wrong. I thought be was in Canada but I hear CA was really California so I got my places mixed up lol.

The backhand is not as flexible as the forehand in timing pushes, so if you don't practice backhand topspin against repeated chop or take the push off the short or half long return, it is very easy to miss by mistiming backhand topspins against pushes off long balls. It is very common to have...

Wow, Feng loses from 2-0, 9-6 to Kanak! Deuce in the 3rd, Deuce in the 4th, Kanak wins going away in the 5th. Crazy.

Of course video would have been good, but there is a reason why many people who post these things don't provide video - its because the video would show all the things they conveniently ignore to push their narrative. No one likes to lose to someone who appears to playing with less effort than...

It's definitely mindset to a great degree, everyone likes minimum effort and hates it when someone who doesn't look like they are trying is beating someone who is running up and down and looping the hell out of the ball. Table tennis is not a beauty contest unfortunately and no one wins any...

For some people who don't know a few things that might help a little: OP plays in Canada. This is a point that some people who are completely unfamiliar with Canada might overlook. With a 1950 Canada rating, OP might actually be between 2000 and 2200 in the USATT rating system. He is a solid...

To be fair, not necessarily, weirdness has hard to read elements that are just as valid in table tennis (which is psychology with strategy and tactics as much as it is athletic and technical). It just means you have a problem to learn about, but it doesn't speak to your fundamentals at all...

Togami beat Meng, for some reason, Ochenhausen plays a guy who defaults to Dima after winning the first point on serve, Kao Cheng Jui beats the younger Tiago Abiodun, and then Dima beats/destroys Togami. Lots of talent in the Bundesliga this year, probably a benefit of Russian sanctions still...

You can't go wrong with either. For reference, I use Skyline 3 on forehand, which is a slightly tacky rubber, but when I turn the racket over and loop with Dignics 05, my ball still stays on the table. A lot of the advantage of 09c is in the short game and over the table play, Dignics 05 does...