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Carl, thanks for the kinds words, but you are making me sound like Superman. I am still a 2050-2150 player when all is said and done. Footwork problematic, strokes off balance, ball quality unquestioned. Musaab's coach is likely 2300 or thereabouts which is definitely well above my level...

So do I, regardless of whether I agree with the criticism or what he should about it.

All these ratings posts... I removed the post you were (probably) responding to and agree with your assessment of my play. I would not come close to giving your coach a match and I may not even beat the girl in red. France is pretty deep in table tennis and even the guy I mentioned had his...

That's all I am asking for.

People's personalities are different, that's all. Show this to someone in France and let them tell you what the rating of the guy who made this video is. I actually agree with the distilled message but the communication is terrible:

You really thought I was kidding?;)

Baal, you are too old fashioned. People are using blood tests to predict whether they will get a disease with good certainty. One day the TT engineers all be vindicated by an app you can use to scan a rubber from your phone and tell what the throw, spin and speed are.

I would prefer it die after he explains why he can't provide a bio.

And you thought because I answered you seriously that I did? I was trying to make a point as well. Even if these things are secrets, they still need people to be at a level to do them, and this is where SchemeSC and myself have experience knowing that the level it takes to understand and do...

One of the great things about secrets is that knowing them doesn't mean you can copy them. That's why it can be interesting to recommend things that pros do to amateurs who haven't built up the experience to use them.

You don't have you show yourself or your family and I have mentioned this elsewhere. I have never met Baal. I don't know what he looks like. I do know that he is a university professor and he currently plays at a level around 2050-2100, lives in Texas, and has hung around or worked with former...

He is making a reasonable request to you to validate your experience and his skepticism is in a part a result of your not fulfilling it.

Sure. I can always recommend selectively what you post to my students but I always try to warn people of the risks of taking advice from people who refuse to substantiate their level of play or their experience. I only started playing seriously 5.5 years ago and I know the risks of trying to...

I don't think any of these things would necessarily make the channel get a better reception.

I don't think of the flat counterhit as circular. The recovery from the stroke could be circular and some people do use circular motions on the counterhits but the stroke itself is designed to produce a flat ball, so doing it in a line is fine and probably ideal to facilitate your flat block...

Not just overthinking but accusing people of being lazy/wrong for failing to simplify to your satisfaction something you refuse to study seriously.

It would probably have been better for Debater to do those tests with a higher quality rubber. Giant Dragon has such power quality control that it is hard to know whether he got truly comparable rubbers or not.

5 out of 5 rating for Vega Tour While the Vega Pro and Euro reside in the OFF-/OFF range, this blade is definitely OFF and has a lower trajectory on blocks and loops, though not by much. The honoring outer gives it and amount of feeling similar to the Pro and more speed. Just about everything...

I just could not trust that the rubber was 38 degrees and that it was always responding the same way. It started feeling harder and more pure "Chinese" than mixed. I don't think someone using 40 degrees will have that issue and maybe they have finalized the issues and quality as it was new and...

I used it in 38 degree for 6 mths (2014 Nov to 2015 April or so) on both forehand and backhand - it was my first committed plastic ball rubber - and I learned a lot while using it. QC issues made me change.