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  1. Does Equipment Matter: Pro vs. Pro

    The choice of language and your level of play misses the point. You mean that people would just pick up and use the first blade they ever tried? They never tested different equipment to see what the pros and cons were? That's not doctoring, that's stupid. Unless there was an established...
  2. Tenergy05 issues

    Every rubber that has mild tuning, even if original, plays slightly worse over time, with 1 week to 2 months of being taken out of the package and used, depending on how you take care of it and your frequency of play. Different players are sensitive to it to different degrees. Since my game...
  3. Does Equipment Matter: Pro vs. Pro

    The funny thing is that even hard batters will never claim that everyone used the same hardbat equipment. People likely messed around with things to the same degree that they do now, only that in an earlier time with less choice for all the reasons tied to modern wealth and technology, they...
  4. World Team Table Tennis Championships 2018

    He has always had problems with injuries. He was a bigtime prodigy as a kid and one of the youngest French national champions ever, which if you know the French TT landscape is a huge achievement.
  5. Does Equipment Matter: Pro vs. Pro

    Mytt has let him back as the owner has forgiven Bmann for insulting him. So I suspect Bmann is now ready to push the envelope here since he now has another forum to play around on should he get banned here.
  6. Does Equipment Matter: Pro vs. Pro

    That you have to quote igorponger as an authority on something shows the kind of intellectual crowd your opinions party with. In tennis, there is absolutely no heir apparent to John McEnroe today. No one serves and volleys consistently, just about everyone is a baseliner. In tennis, they...
  7. I qualified for College Nationals, help

    To participate, yes. Not sure what all the rules and scholarships amount to. But they are in degree programs of some sort - again let's not debate without extra info the rigor etc. of the scholarship standards.
  8. I qualified for College Nationals, help

    It is surprising if you have the ability to go in both directions as most people believe the down the line is too risky as it leaves open a cross court block. But if the player can step back and sit on it it is usually an easy point for the blocker. So it has to be an ability to go both ways.
  9. China National Team Closed Training - WTTTC 2018

    With the weight that LJK has lost, that has the potential to change. It was too "obvious" to me that his original game was compensating for his weight. Now you can see that he is not always holding the table as aggressively to take balls EXTREMELY early - he is still taking them early, but at...
  10. I qualified for College Nationals, help

    A core strategy for playing lefties is down the line attacks. So I suspect they bother lefties substantially more, even if they bother other players more.
  11. ( Chinese ) warmup for 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    What happens when two teammates play each other - amazing shotmaking.
  12. ( Chinese ) warmup for 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    This version of LJK is just amazing. He will start trading with FZD if he keeps this up.
  13. I qualified for College Nationals, help

    My solution is to come round the side of the ball with a more open racket and close over it. There may be other options but this has been the most reliable way of countering for me. You are a much better player than I am and just about anyone here who will casually answer your question so PM...
  14. I’m qualifying for the English nationals help

    Throw a discuss or swing a golf club. Advanced players reset the feet while swinging to give them more force into the ball. Some jump or hop a little on every shot. But there is no single magic way. It is just easier to start with loading one leg and finishing with the weight on the other or...
  15. I’m qualifying for the English nationals help

    There is no perfect or correct way to hit the ball in TT, there are just awful ways and respectable ways and in advanced cases high level ways. You can use your legs all you like but without a real ball in some manner no one can tell you what the limitations you really face are. Even crappy...
  16. ( Chinese ) warmup for 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    Finally, a good looking version of Liang Jingkun. Now this guy is going to be on the men's team next time if he decides to stick around.
  17. I’m qualifying for the English nationals help

    Carl, he needs your corner of the table video for the inside out forehand loop practice.
  18. Commonwealth Games 2018

    Gao Ning was too solid. The match just confirmed my biggest fears and that Quadri will always be susceptible to balanced players whom he can't overpower with his forehand. He is better at dealing with those players now but he can't afford moments like the end of the 5th game.
  19. An idea for Dan's next video series

    Maybe a retired non-sponsored pro and not a top pro?
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