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Carbon doesn't magically make a blade faster. Thickness and overall blade design still matter.

The mistake I made was to switch to my back up Vega Pro to get more experience using it. The blade is much lighter and different. Now I am back with my original, I am fine again. The one thing I am noticing is that I like a narrower neck. The Vega Pro and the Tibhar KJH are similar in that...

You have to learn to loop over the ball with fast strokes . It is the biggest problem that makes people back up so much. Their racket head speed is slow so they need to play upward strokes.

Unless you loop with power, and sometimes even if you do, it is hard to hit elbows or wide angles when you are 10 feet off the table. The opponent can see your shot coming a mile away.

It's hard for me to give advice to people who habitually back off the table to loop, especially when their opponent is not looping. My game is serve and attack or serve and try to set up attack, not serve and push or serve and lob or serve and soft loop or serve to rally.

If he is taking your #1 to 5 games playing legitimate matches and you are #4 and truly believe that you are the same level, then someone is being hustled.

MichalZ, That's obviously a good player.

This is like looking at the 6 months where Federer was playing badly while injured and focusing on that. You seem to forget that he was injured during the Olympics. All these results just come after and his focus is really on WTTC. It's like looking at Federer in 2016 and saying he should...

That's what happens when you don't have a club any more - your game goes down because you don't get to play the good players anymore because they don't come to your club. And my health hasn't encouraged me to travel out. I basically coach two hours twice a week these days and that is it. The...

Mine looks really bad. But it plays really well. BTW, it plays extra awesome with Dandoy Bioboost. Don't ask me how I know, I just do. ;)

It's a basic fun warm up and they get more accurate as it goes along - there is never a super high level of intensity.

But I also get the impression that the increased surface friction and less spin potential make the used rubbers usable for longer. I can loop with rubbers that I would have discarded ages ago with the cell ball. Or maybe my technique is just better and I am overthinking it.

Federer did not win a big title since 2012 - no one other than the Chinese has won big Titles since Samsonov in 2009. You think the fact that Federer got luck in 2017 now makes you right after the fact? Or you would have been wrong in Samsonov had beaten Mizutani despite being injured? When...

What kind of hair spray do you use for protecting yours?

Haha... IMO, Korbel has better balance than SPW. I could only use Hexer confidently on the SPW given its weight.

The big difference is that in internal tournaments, they have coaches by their side. In international tournaments, they do not. That is why FZD struggles against ML internationally, he doesn't have a coach to reassure him on the tactical and psychological front. Whether this tournament or the...

Yeah. He is still playing great table tennis. Still capable of great results. Just has more bad days because of his age. I have never understood the argument that playing past your prime hurts your legacy.

Running shoes are bad for TT. Cross trainers are better.

I am switching to the Korbel. There is something about the head heaviness and the weight that makes it feel better when I loop. Hopefully, my shoulder will survive it.

The thrill of victory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2gxQ0l6kuc&feature=youtu.be&t=163 The agony of defeat: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1C2DORnfI&feature=youtu.be&t=1297