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Then I will push the hate button, This trying is not good enough.

Debate clouds the mind. Argument focuses it.

No, they are not all opinion based. And sometimes, opinions can be very half-baked and misinformed. So if my opinion is that I am the greatest player of all time, you think that opinion is just as respectable as considering Waldner the greatest player of all time? Really? But if we were to...

Debate is for sissies... Argument is for hypertensives...

Oh, and stop using a Viscaria! I am allergic to Koto!

Then 1. Be more direct when commenting about things you do not like. 2. Fix my serve!

One problem is that you continue to speak in elliptical phrases. I now understand what you are talking about - those old "Best Player ever threads". Man, there is a reason why I don't even post on those threads. I would probably strangle Carl for his opinions. But the problem in part is...

Ma Long almost never serves reverse in matches. I already have a pretty decent punch serve, and the first serve I learned from Brett was actually the reverse. It just fell into disuse and then I hated the quality more and more vs my other serves so both by backhand short serve and my reverse...

There was a time I was massively into reading about evolutionary psychology and philosophy. One of the things I learned was that arguments are really about persuasion, and that facts are facts regardless of what you argue. One of my favorite examples was from 2005 when I thought a movie was...

It's all African table tennis, I tell you! Ma Long the newest African Champion! Okay, I am making bad jokes...

I would have recorded everything. Is her friend Jiaqi Zheng?

The saddest thing in a sense for me is that I never got to actually play him. I kept on thinking that eventually, I would get good enough for it to happen in the league, rather than just asking for a match and doing it.

A story for you, SchemeSC. There is a guy who I played a lot who is now in college. He plays a lot of players there. One of his opponents is a really powerful 2000+ (probably over 2100 but rating not fully caught up yet) looper. When the college guy pushes or spins a straight ball to the...

Good stuff. The real issue is that you didn't reset after every feed, so you got closer to the ball and could take it earlier. Also, AS should mess around with your brain a little more. He should dink the ball softly with little spin, do a hook sidespin serve or a backhand serve that barely...

Nothing wrong with this, backhand looping against topspin consistently is one of the most difficult shots in table tennis. Most people do a short counter/kick topspin, and it really isn't a brush stroke as topspin is not easy to brush unless you are something thick on the contact.

Yes. In my head, that is how I open 95% of the time unless the ball has backspin in my optimal range and I can feel it. You need to practice that kind of loop while moving, when the ball is falling off the side of the table, when you are out of position on the forehand side, and even against...

Yes, but it is rampant lying, DerEchte. Fostered by internet facelessness. I know we all committed similar internet sins but we can't encourage it in the young... But my point is that Archo can be dangerous if not confronted. I was actually speaking about the good side of Pnut, the side that...

Yes, and the good thing is that if/when he gets emboldened to repeat his old posting patterns, you will be aware enough to see what is happening. All of this seems excessive now, and there are a couple of times when I find the piling on Archo to be gratuitous, but I avoided starting my fair...

Maybe he didn't cause any real harm because some of the egos he supposedly damaged took it upon themselves to stop him before he damaged someone's table tennis? I think this is what I meant when I said that you think I am a petty person. No, he didn't just hurt some egos, if he ever developed...

Tip 1: Don't do it. Tip 2: If you have to do it, set aside 2 hours of your life. Tip 3: Use acetone and lighter fluid carefully to see which solvent affects the glue. Tip 4: Get to work!