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What is wrong with if the thing is for show? I have always believed that we should have a competitive exhibition aspect to our sport. There are whole competitions in billiards/snooker dedicated to trick shots. Swimmers do synchronized swimming and diving. The dunk competition is one of the...

Liu Shiwen was using HL5. Just as interesting to me.

I have abstained from commenting so far because I find these kinds of threads to say a lot about the people posting them. I remember on another forum, someone used a bad picture to argue that Dima may have swithched to T80. But if you looked at the picture, it was so hard to read the numbering...

They didn't get coached in the finals, I suspect that Dima was coached either by teammates or people from his old CTTSL club.

You are repeating ttmonster's and Tropical's point. You are simply asking people to prove themselves when there is no good reason to listen to you.

You are probably hitting too much into the ball. The videos below explain. Good luck.

As an experienced TT player, this is good literature.

Timo has a way of playing when match point up as if he is waiting for his opponent to make a mistake. It is really unfortunate as Dima doesn't misread Timo's serves. Congrats to Dima.

I actually think Weikert stepping in gives the players better cover.

He is Lei Yang, also Han Ying's husband. It is likely a tournament arrangement.

It was a good movie. But believe it or not, sometimes what works for you can be giving the opponent a version of what they are doing to you. Again, I am not speaking about players who do not celebrate. I am speaking about players who celebrate but become seemingly reticent to do so when...

I think "Tchoing" insincerely, or anything done insincerely, unless rehearsed makes one feel like an idiot. So do many things, from pre-point routines, to after point routines, to wiping the table in between points etc. These are all things that can mess up your game when you do them until you...

Verbal expression is something I tend to do when challenged by my opponent or playing in hostile environments (in a club by myself where my opponent is the home player, on the road by myself when the opponent has a cheering section). I am generally silent when I play unless when celebrating...

Largely irrelevant to the question of whether someone plays better or worse in the face of vocal challenge from their opponent by being silent or by increasing their arousal level.

Everyone has an opinion. But some world class players and coaches do share my opinion, so as much as it might just be an opinion, I think there is something to be said for it. Though of course, they have rectums as well. And in my experience competing, I have seen the effects of players who...

That is the same letter that rainneverever already posted. Kinda pathetic but understandable.

What are the contents of the letter?

This has always been true, it is just that in this specific case, the issue you speak of is one that you strongly support the protester. OF course such decisions should have repercussions. As many people pointed out, there were many ways to support or protest. Your choice will have...

None of this is relevant to the contexts and the people that I am talking about. Moreover, I don't know anyone who plays better when the audience is cheering against him mostly by being serene. At the very worst, they get their coach or someone else to cheer for them more loudly. PEople...

Just because you protest and people don't agree with you and don't want to work with you doesn't mean your protest was squashed.