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Don't worry - I will fix the thread hijacking. Have you won the serves tournament?

People have a wrong perspective of table tennis sometimes. USATT 1900 is well above average especially if you didn't start intense training as a kid. People don't think about how long it takes to get there and think that it is a cakewalk. People who are above 1900 in China usually got some...

You aren't playing the app enough and you are focusing on the wrong things. Always focus on the contact. Eventually, even if you don't think you are seeing it, you will. It gets slower with exposure. It's like your brain builds out the systems required to see everything if you give it a...

Fantastic poster.

Why magic? Aren't you supposed to lose anyways? For me, it is simple - serve and return in ways that let you get into rallies. IF you can't, he is a better player so that is what is supposed to happen. If you can, then your chances are as good as they can get. Try to play the first attack...

Ma Long wouldn't say any different or he wouldn't train so many hours a day, would he? You're a good guy so I am not sure why you are making it sound like improving in table tennis is magic.

Great post with a fantastic analogy. Unfortunately, people don't like to accept straightforward explanations. When you can select from the best athletes, that is easy. When you have to create the best athletes with limited resources (Portugal), that is ridiculously impressive.

Coach Wu Jingping has retired from the CNT last year (he was coaching FZD and XX at the time before the Olympics) so that is likely an old photo. Seeing Jike in recent multiball and training videos, I doubt he will withdraw.

The fact that he presided over the team during its return to dominance is what gives him the credibility to make these claims, and I can't imagine being in his position and not showboating a little bit. He does create some attention and press by doing these things so it might not be all negative.

Block practice is incredibly important in table tennis and I would not recommend one skip it entirely even if one is extremely advanced. The key is to introduce or add random elements so that the brain is challenged to make reads rather than to fall into a routine where it is not challenged and...

Like I said, he didn't try to impose the situation and his fight on Dima. Look at how Dima kept expressing himself after winning points. Dima never felt that pressure from Niwa.

Watching Niwa, I can understand the precise comment that LGL was making about Shang Kun. Even if he wins this, he needs to express more at winning critical points to remind people he is fighting.

There is no magic answer here. Just play as much as you can and adjust the best you can with practice. You could play the game you want to play with T64fx, you just have to practice until you figure it out. The more traditional the rubber (Mark V/Sriver), the better it will be at the kind of...

I saw on my youtube channel that you could serve the punch serve and get people to put the ball in the net too.

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Where is Gnanasekaran? Can't find him in the draw.

Archo had a good point, but the bottom line is if you really want to loop it, keep trying. And if the ball is fast, realize that yo need to give yourself time to swing so find the right distance from the table to play (not too far or the ball will sink, and not too close or the ball will be on...

No soup for you! Just kidding - I think Freitas played at a very high level and out Mizutanied Mizutani. The 7-5 point in the first game is the kind of point that Mizutani rarely loses. After watching this, I felt that if Freitas had a regular practice partner with the power of Dima, his level...