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No, he wasn't referring to you. And don't worry, we like new members of all kinds (except the ones that come to cause trouble and you clearly aren't one if you are trying to meet other members on the forum in person - the trouble makers don't do that). It's the old members that don't let go of...

I am good against most styles but trick topspin serve and attack players are the ones that frustrate me especially if they smash. I like to play at my own pace so I hate being rushed.

The ready position you return to looks very different from how you would set up for forehand. But it might be the same. Just make sure the starting position is similar or you will be rushed in transition.

Point the racket more upwards at the end of the backswing and try to more aggressively hit the left side of the ball with your stroke. You might be struggling because under pressure, you don't expose enough of your racket to the ball to feel safe about the contact. The stroke looks fine in...

Yes, that was one of the reasons I stopped using Big Dipper - I used ALL+ blades, but the problem was that the rebound didn't let me block weak loops and I wasn't good enough to counterloop all the time. The thing is that some Euro rubbers have strong catapult. That is obviously not what...

I felt physically good that day. I unfortunately don't feel that way all the time or long enough to usually build on it.

Yes, but he is boosting heavily and using a Viscaria. I know how Musaab feels, it is when I play people like Leshinsky that I learn the limitations of taking strokes that you can't recover quickly enough from. Musaab can get away with it now at his current playing level but over time, it will...

You couldn't control it because you were focused on getting the ball on the table and your muscle memory could not adapt. Like I said, the solution is to learn now to do this by broadening your concept of ball control using the racket, not to try to go to slower equipment necessarily, but...

This is an important point, but I will make it in my response to Musaab as many people give bad advice on this subject in my experience as they don't know the difference between *hard sponge* and *tacky rubber* from a practical perspective.

Champions league RR stage. Orenburg and Sporting Lisbon have already advanced so it is more for show.

Sometimes, using cheap rubber is part of the problem as the rubber is not responding as well to the stroke in a way that encourages you to improve along the right path. So your perspective is very limited by your experience and is not relevant. The simple question to ask is which world class...

You mean vs a coach? There isn't a professional league in the U.S. Smaller sports have supported professionals so it is partly about getting the model right. But I think that given that more kids from wealthy backgrounds are playing, it ia a matter of time. If chess csn supoort professionals...

They increased their money when they built out a professional tour with a ratings system that they could sell that required players to play more events to keep their rankings. There is no other sport where someone can play the schedule that Zhang Jike played last year and remain top 10 in the...

Give USA time. The USATT has good management and good things are happening. We are hosting Vets next year and will put in a World Championship bid, not sure for which event. If they can penetrate the US market, that will be more than anything out there. There are enough millionaires...

I can't say that there is one tried and tested path to getting good swings and I suspect that there might be a case for using slower equipment when learning as an adult based on my experiences using slower equipment as an adult. Since I had excess power, I fell in love with hitting when using...

TT is a popular sport with nerds and nerds are some of the richest people in the world. There is frankly no good reason it should be doing better from a financial sustenance view. IT just needs the right approach to be found.

Red flag...

Yeah but a lot of his play is close to the table looping so any point where I manage to survive more than two shots tends to count. His backhand has gotten better too so I now have no hiding place.

Its for a variety of things including spin evasion.

Yes but this ignores the fact that the same issues were in badminton as well until badminton also made its rankings more dynamic to support more player participation. The other point is that sponsors do ask the things I ask when deciding how much they can give. It is easier to market or plan...