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Thought this might be helpful to explain why good players do this impractical drill

Good. Placement over power for point winning drills. Because of recovery demands, it is better to hit with power if you are hitting away from the player or to a disturbing locarion but to hit with spin when you are playing to the player. Not 100% but it usually makes sense. Because as you get...

Just don't get so locked into each other's quality that you aren't challenging your self on 20% of the practice points. As in, while maintaining consistency, do sometimes push for max power or max spin or max placement. Also, do a few drills that are focused on doing things that affect the...

When I broke USATT 2000, I went back to the basics for 6 months to fix my forehand. That gave me a different respect for control and fundamentals. I already had that respect, but it made it a bit harder for me to understand the attitude of people who hit balls during practice but spray the...

Yeah, prepare for the short serve and be ready to step back if it is long. This makes more sense than preparing for thr long serve then having to come over the table if it is short. Obviously the first bounce of the server determines this as well as their serve speed

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Still pretty high, though Suthasini is more realistically closer to the #2 player than the #3 player in the group. A lot will depend on Sawettabut-Wang, if Amy wins a game or 2, Mima will be fine, Mima will only be under pressure with a 4-0 win by Suthasini as Mima should easily beat Amy, who...

Yes, it is exactly the ratio of spin to speed that affect the angle of incidence , so the contact gets too much topsheet and too little sponge and the reaction sends the ball upwards. I now have opponents who have played me enough that they often push to my forehand and immediately I loop the...

Different but related organizations. I have made the analogy before that the ATP and WTA is to ITF what the WTT is to ITTF (limitations around prize money and true source of money in tennis vs TT notwithstanding). While all ATP events are ITF events, not all ITF events are ATP events...

To counter some misinformation - the reason why slow spinny loops are hard to block, especially as loops against backspin, mostly for new and intermediate players and depending on quality, advanced players, are because of the angle of incidence of the ball into the rubber tends to mess up the...

She got the thumb injury during the match. But regardless, you can't blame Hirano for playing to her level when they allow players who are clearly nowhere close to their world rankings to get world rankings based on continental results. The result was obviously coming once I saw the draw.

Ito has done equally cold blooded things. So for me, no confirmation, though I knew Hirano was going to do that before the match started.

Seeing videos on youtube for this.

There are definitely pros to brushing and spinning more. I play that style so I should know, but as everything else it has its cons. I think you others have pointed out the main point of the video, that brushing so much you raise the risk of whiffing the ball is bad, but the reality is that the...

Do the weights affect the frequency?

The thing is that with even when someone like Timo Boll drives through the ball more, it still looks like excessive brushing. In the end, just focus on your consistency and ball quality, the technique doesn't always look like you think it should. I mean can anyone tell when Kanak is looping...

Language can be an impediment to learning physical actions. Just try whatever you think you understand from what he is saying and if it improves your stroke, awesome. And if not, keep doing what you have always done. I agree that in principle, your stroke needs to expose as much surface area...

Group 5 - 3 lefties in one group.

People keep drawing analogies to other sports without understanding the similarities and differences between table tennis and other sports. The biggest difference is the table tennis tour is not the primary source of most player's sport incomes. Of course, everyone has sports contracts and...