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Can you graze something and make it rebound off your racket? Of course not. It is really the tangential element of the stroke that creates the spin, and that tangential element has to turn the ball. The grazing is thicker than it seems to be, and thick grazing may actually get more spin if...

As long as you don't move the table, the only part of your body that cannot touch the table is your non-racket hand. If you a) move the table with any part of your body or b) touch the table with your non-racket hand, you lose the point.

I don't think rankings are supposed to predict results. Rankings should reward performance. I for one have no problem seeing Timo Bollinger drop to #44 or so in the rankings or Zhang Jike fall lower. It is part of making the tour a quality product. That said, sugard pointed out the...

What people think is grazing so usually much more than that. But there is no need to make this about language. It's really the turning aspect of the stroke that adds the spin. Rubbers with higher throw can add this turning effect into their design so you get it on hits. I prefer Rubbers...

I practice backhand topspin against chop all the time. One of my best strokes. There is a sense on which ERT is right but he didn't fully discuss it. I also find at the lower levels vs chop and definitely at all levels if power is not an issue that the backhand topspin is a harder stroke to...

Suds, though it likely applies to both of you.

You are making a mountain out of what I think is a molehill. Modern rubbers let you hit the ball when looping. I tend to get much more spin than I would like to when smashing. It comes with the territory. Though on the other hand, since you limit yourself to cheap Chinese stuff, I can see...

Yes. You technical inconsistency and lack of ideal practice conditions may make this a nightmare, but get him to put the ball into the table on his side, work up to the net bottom, then to the net green, then to the net white, possibly even off the table. The range of information and racket...

Mostly vertical is old school. Modern is sideways or diagonally upwards and sideways. Reason is that being vertical interferes with your ready position to play a backhand topspin or adjust the blocking angle as the wrist and forearm rotation in that plane is limited on the lollipop/vertical...

My latest practice - you can see how heavily whip factors into my technique - forehands the first 8 minutes, backhands the next 5, inside out forehands the next 7, mixed stuff the next 4, then a match to close it out.

You still aren't listening.. but you may have been frustrated. Don't learn this lesson the hard way. Good job! Get there soon!

We've gone through this elsewhere too often but developing a better player is sometimes about selection, not about planning. And having the resources to invest in enhanced healthcare etc. is something some other countries do with their basketball or baseball teams, not their table tennis teams.

I disagree - the main thing is the investment in resources in China pales Europe or even the rest of the world including other Asian countries with the potential exceptions of Japan and South Korea. All the other stuff is not that different.

It's an issue to me because some coach decided to hail this guy as someone with the X-factor for beating the Chinese.

Someone, please remind what is good about playing like this again?

Picking up the non-racket leg is actually a sign that you aren't getting the right kind of weight transfer (well, if you aren't going from one leg to the other through the stroke) and is one of the reasons a coach I respect doesn't teach looping in terms of weight transfer.

They can reduce the quality after Weikert wins reelection.

Kewei Li is one of the few players in NA who has actually beaten Eugene (Zhen) Wang of Canada in a match. LPs rely on unpredictability and unfamiliarity so anything that contributes to that is appreciated. I just want a ball that plays consistently. Lower bounce helps my serve but the other...

The unbreakability is underestimated. It is really going to change the game.

Baal, you hit with Kewei Li, Viktor Subonj and Niraj Oak at your club. They also gave their opinions. Does it require Dima to show how silly those guys are? Guys who have never shown video on how they play yet repeatedly make silly statements not worth discussing?