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There are lots of skills/drills with general applicability and to be honest, even a well trained technically adequate forehand topspin can be user to return serves, hit cross court, down the line or into the middle and sometimes counter of the bounce with touch. My main point is that working on...

So general drills or the theory underlying general drills can be used to fix or enhance specific problems. So for example, let's say you want to play forehand after serving. Maybe the footwork for pivoting might ne helpful and worth drilling as part of a third ball movement. Or you might fo...

When a team has a budget that allows it to build Ira own replica of the playing hall and get tournament balls in advance for private practice and fly out a boat load of training partners, you know it is playing a different game from everyone else.

Yes but I would separate the drills you do for fitness from the drills you do to win points and improve in matches. They don't really translate and one of the common causes of TT frustration comes from players who add up all their training hours thinking they do instead of focusing either on...

I agree with a lot of this. When learning with a faster blade, most of the practical drilling should be focused on range training to develop a lot of feeling. Drills that test your ability to play different quality shots with the.balde should be a huge part of your training. Because the lack...

Since I try to help adult learners play reasonably efficient table tennis based on the struggles I had as a learner, for those who don't want to move too much, one of the things I try to teach early is how to play with your backhand and your forehand out of a similar stance which requires you to...

Rakza Z is definitely high arcing and relatively slow and hard to drive balls with. If you take a step or two back and like to spin and remain consistent, it does extremely well. If you want to loop the ball past your opponent, you are probably using the wrong rubber. But that said, I would...

Now I see that the creativity in attacking Hayata is not just a zeio skill, but a Tieba/5ch zeio quotes mindset.

We are always reminded that the JNT is not a team in the same sense that the CNT are a team. One of the primary justifications for wanting a Harimoto- Hayata pairing was the belief that Hirano gave them the best chance for two singles wins. Look how that turned out. Of course, we will get the...

You are a TT player. Have you ever lost a match quite like Hayata and Harimoto and not feel you threw it away? I am not saying Hayata did not lose the match as much as that the idea that all she had to do was keep the ball on the table and that would have changed the outcome runs counter to...

I looked at the 9-5 points all the way to the end. All that Hayata did was take risk to win points by going down the line when arguably she should have more safety going cross court. You have to believe you have earned the right to do this. Also, her play against SYS and SYB in singles was...

Okay. Did she have all the misses from 9-5 in the 5th? And what changed other than the score? She just decided to start pissing away points?

"Keeping the ball on the table", which Hayata does well against just about any player not on the CNT to extend points when defending, is now supposedly what she cannot do at deuce. The problem is when you face a better player, when both of you keep the ball on the table, the better player's...

China MT will be fine. Not as reliable as with FZD but with WCY leading and LSD and LJK and LGY amongst others (XP, RW), they will still be the favorites. The problem ia that the other teams are too lacking in depth. Sweden may be the closest to having two players at the required level though...

Thanks. Thankfully, her weaknesses in 2016 were set in stone and despite beating players she struggled with prior, we can see that she never adapted, losing to pips players (which by the way also includes choppers) whenever she met them for all time. What a dumb bronze medalist!

The victory will feel sweet no matter what.

The novels are becoming slightly more interesting, unfortunately the endings are entirely too predictable.

That's entirely fair but photos are not it.

Hayata the selfish continues to play...

But they gave the Tieba users what they wanted. So now it is time for Hirano to deliver.