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I tried the long 5. The problem is that the head is too big for what I am trying to do and it feels too soft as limba is too dwelly. Of course given I used d welly stuff for a long time, this is silly but I mean it. The bigger head is the real issue - I want something that lets me get more...

So I have switched to ALC blades. What has surprised me is how much more control I have on offensive shots than I Thought I would. In fact, I think that with the plastic ball, I am more convinced that if you have heavy spin shots, convert the spin to power. In any case, so far the choice to...

Kanak Jha won the North American Cup as David Powell won the Oceania Cup as Tsuboi won the Latin American Cup as Aruna won the African Cup. Harimoto did not play the Asian Cup where Mizutani and Niwa played and while he could have gotten a special invite, I suspect the Belgians gave that to...

IF the spin is missing, your hand is too tight and you are not doing any whippy wrist work. But just post video - these things are easy to fix when there is video but are usually a waste of time when there isn't. You might be getting good speed but because you are refusing to change your...

Let's try again. No one is saying that Ding Ning's 3300 and Ma Long's 3300 are the same since the ratings are in different systems. Everyone has said that women are generally weaker than men in sports, but that if the men and women play each other in the same system and get wins and losses in...

You can only stick for years with something that has been available for years. That is the correct way to read your statement. Of course, having the best players in the world use your brands doesn't hurt either. People who try a new rubber when it first comes out are reviewers. It is...

That's the thing - it's one thing to definitely say it and another thing to speculate. We should all say first and foremost that we don't know. But the thing is that off the bounce blocking and good serving can take you a long way in TT. When the NA Teams in Baltimore featured more high level...

I don't understand where this is coming from. There are ways of rating players based on results. Let's stop the hypotheticals and rate the results. I have seen very high level men get shocked by the kinds of balls that women can block off the bounce. I don't doubt that the top men can beat...

LGL is not the only one who understands TT in China and they put the team in the hands of a technical genius (WJP) for now, so I expect everything to be fine.

Timo is just keeping LGY's seat in the top 5 warm as well.

Larry Hodges gave a comprehensive answer on his blog. Pros or people who start young and play actively with intense training tend to peak in the 20s-early 30s. People who pick up the game later can peak whenever they decide to invest the resources and train intensively and some improve...

Those guys hit the ball too hard though.

Brett has been doing a lot of videos on Ttedge recently emphasizing the role of the hips on every stroke including forehand flip and backhand topspin but obviously forehand topspin, counterhit and backhand block. His most recent video emphasizes something I tell people but some people don't get...

I travelled extremely light and my impression is that Baal is a fairly private person even if very affable so I wasn't going to take anything. I didn't even have my knee braces so I was lucky that Baal's club had wooden floors. Even then, today is not a cakewalk...

In Houston for the Columbus Day weekend. No racket but I figured it would make no sense bring in Houston without seeing Baal. So I sent him a PM and he agreed to meet me at his club despite his recovering from a long cycling race the day before. He also lent me a racket since I didn't have one...

Tricky opponent. Quadri did well.

I don't know about that. I can't remember Dima losing to Joo in any match I have watched.

Watch Xu Xin playing any chopper you will see this shot a lot. Dima and Boll use it a lot too.

To beat a player much better than You, in my experience, they need to have something fundamentally wrong with their game at the level they play at. Wrong means imbalanced. Like a Xu Xin type game with dominant forehand play or long pips chopper where the ball slows down making you comfortable...

6 to 13 months if you are in a rush. More like 2-3 years for mastery and maturity.