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Let me play the Grinch in another way - if he won the match 3-0 playing that way, then I am impressed. Otherwise, it is just another random highlight that we all ooh and ahh at that will be as remembered as Patrick Chila is in a few years.

Why so serious??

This is so deep I don't get the point. Well done.

If you are over 2000, sure. If not, good luck with that. http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/18114663/1288823123/name/champion_physical_training.pdf

Here is one of my favorite looping videos. You can see how late I am taking the ball and how relaxed I am. I also have videos where I take the ball earlier (vs Brockington, for example). But I tell adults all the time that if they can't loop like this, they will be under pressure all the time...

Watch the video that Carl referred you to. Watch it carefully. It explains the seduction if cookie cutter training. But it also explains why the skills don't translate to matches quickly. One of the things I have to do as a coach is get people comfortable with training ugly. They get...

The best exercise to improve table tennis is more table tennis.

You just have to learn to stop dropping the paddle after you play the first/opening loop. Most pros stay low and lean forward so even their adjustments to their swings to go back to front look like they are swinging from down to up. Your paddle will always go up if you finish at your...

Have you ever tried to swing at a ball in a way that you have never swung at it before under pressure? Have you ever tried to greet your girlfriend in a way that you have never greeted her before? We are creatures of habits. Changing habits is hard. You go up 2-0 in a game playing a certain...

Why leave TT when Patrick Chila and Adrien Mattenet and lots of other Frenchmen still play? Xu Xin is entertaining. Ouaiche is a sinner.

I just assumed (wrongly) that since it was Ouaiche, he ran back without being forced back to play that kind of stuff. I would rather that he lost that point trying to counter Freitas's backhand down the line back to Freitas's forehand but I can't have it all. He is who he is. The chopping...

As much as I think a lot of that rally is just bad table tennis, that is absolutely astonishing.

So I went to a club in Indiana. It so happens that the club and its residence in that building, full time, part time, whatever, has been going on over 90 years as there is history of table tennis being played in that building during the great depression. It's named after a USATT hall of famer...

Use anything you want - it might be more fun to play with but will never replace the hours in the practice halls.

I don't think there is a need to change that much, to be honest, though modest accommodations can be made for each player. The main thing is to find a stance that is comfortable and that one can move laterally in as well as strokes that work in a more vertical position. I usually find that...

No wonder I have been waiting in vain for Boogar to play real topspins. He is listening to videos that make him feel like he understands Chinese secrets. Sorry to tell you the bad news, Boogar, but the secrets are not going to hit the ball, you are, and the best stroke in the world is the...

The other thing you need to learn to do is to build out that in-between slow heavy topspin game. That's what people who play like you are lacking - you have practiced hitting the ball at 100mph or just rolling the ball that you don't know how to put must of your stroke into topspin. It's all...

The real bottom like is why you are afraid of missing. Just play a game where you lose 11-0 by hitting balls off the table. Get it out of your system that missing is the end of the world. Then play another game where you are trying to make good shots but may miss or make them. Try to put on...

Put him on 1.5 speed or more - that usually resolves the problems with the voice. The content is another story.