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Just because of the long pimples? You have an interesting view of TT. EDIT: I had a friend text me this week that he had just heard of a guy called "pushblocker" who could play with long pips at the table and was 2300 and asked me if it was true. I responded that the guy's highest rating was...

The main answer to your question is that to register for an ITTF event, you must be approved by some national association. If you watch ITF (tennis) events, nationality is often factored in (Grand slams, Davis Cup). It is ATP/WTA events that are less reliant on nationality.

I have kinda told you before that this is not how blades work and that this path is going to hurt your table tennis in the long term. Most pro males started out with 5 ply blades or a blade used by a pro they admired and just train with it. If they determine that on their fast shots, they need...

Come on, he is most famously known as the terrorist on the 4th season of hit show 24. Everyone knows Adonis Maropis.

DerEchte would rather we trust him instead of our lying eyes.

It really depends on who is speaking. The Chinese language for table tennis is extremely rich and not all nuances survive translation. And the same is sometimes true for other languages. Some people consider hits, counter hits and drives to be the same stroke while some will consider counter...

You can also try Xiom Vega blades depending on what you like, or Donic blades. More ZLC out there these days than people realize, though not quite the same as Timo ZLC.

Great post, Carl. Thanks for sharing a lot of it. Pingskills had a recent video that showed clips of Sato playing during the World Championshops he won, and you can see some in different places. When you look at it, the guy wasn't doing anything special at all. Just pushing and chopping...

I figured out what was happening. The rubbers were light. And it seems that they almost don't make the lighter rubber (Narucross GS Supersoft) any more. IT's a bit of a bummer as I would seriously have considered buying a ton of it in both colors. I used the soft one a while back, but I hear...

I traded a Vega Europe that I had brand new for a new Garaydia T5000. I wanted a modern Schlager carbon and Butterfly blades keep value better, even if I obviously prefer the blade I gave away for my style.

Says who? Isn't it obvious that my forehand is a carbon copy of Zhang Jike's?

Oh Playing with myself... Oh Playing with myself... When there's nothing to lose, And there's nothing to prove.. I'll be playing with myself...

Yes, the point is not that the feet should not move - they almost always do. The point is that if you think of the first move as turning your shoulders, it is very hard to be in a position where you do not swing at the ball with a reasonable stroke.

Yesterday evening, I had a troubling experience. I forgot my rackets at home despite showing up with the rest of my coaching gear ( had something to do with my cleaning lady). I was lent a racket by a friend - it happened to be the racket of a friend who was now in Vegas. And who bought the...

Here is the most recent US Open hard bat final:

Just noting for the record...

Really....

If we want to get that technical, why talk about rotating a joint? You should be rotating the bones that meet at the joint...

For backhands, this is generally accepted. I guess because I had my issues with moving, I played out of an extreme backhand stance but my real issue as I figured out later in part thanks to Larry's blog was that I wasn't pointing my feet outwards and staying on the balls of my feet. but the...

Depends on how you define "amateur". I always wanted to play like a pro but my coach wanted me to play like an amateur, quite correctly because I didn't want to bend my knees as much, but quite wrongly because the real issue was I didn't point my feet outwards enough. The most important thing...