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The Chinese women pulled out. I can guarantee you that many of the people who bought tickets were Chinese. That said, it was also a weekday. It should be much fuller today.

You think people watch all those long unedited videos? You have to hear DerEchte talk and then you will forget just hearing his accent that he even plays TT.

Everyone is doing the DerEchte hustle - talking about how weak they are and spotting each other points before creaming their opponent's behind.

Don't order those things from another countrtime. You can get decent pips from colestt.com and zeropong.com. Expensive tensor at discount rates of course should be imported. All of this goes out the window if zero pong and coles TT are too expensive...

I mean that you have two sides on your current blade. Keep one side as inverted and one side as pips but change the pips every month or so. That will reduce the weight and let you have variation. You can them decide whether you want to make the short pips you main side and put LP on the other...

I would recommend you do inverted on one side and short pips on the other and continue to play around with what you want to be on the pips side. You will appreciate having the inverted to serve with. Serving with inverted is always a different level from pips, all other things being equal.

By the way, I have played at least two backhand oriented TPB penholders. It was the most frustrating thing I had ever seen or played against. I keep trying to loop into the "weakness" and I am getting punched around the table and only win points when I loop into the forehand which I perry much...

The problem is that Archosaurus wants to play like CNT. Your guy was probably just trying to get the ball on the table and make it hard for his opponent to do another shot. Given their resources, one was delusional and the other practical. But things can always change.

I would still recommend long or medium pips. But it is neither here nor there since people are strongly advocating long pips. I just think that the offense with long pips is too limited to disturb good players.

When I was coming up, it was precisely players who played like you and had bad backhand technique that my game was built to undermine. It's not just backhand technique but overall play along the backhand diagonal. When I struggle with or lose to a player at my level, there are usually two...

This is the video I remember. Yes, our levels are not too different, but what I am saying is that don't let the camera deceive you - technique is not everything. In fact, my whole point to strangeloop is that he should stop thinking about one stroke and start thinking about the sequence of...

That's really not the point. I don't like many things too. You actually seem like a pretty nice guy and you adapt to things over time. My guess is that if I gave you a screw driver to play with, you may hate it , but if forced to adapt to it, you would play well with it. It's a common...

OKay, so to help you with some context, I broke USATT 2000 in January 2015 playing a largely different style from the one I play today. IT revolved more around pushing and blocking and having a strong backhand opening and counter. I could loop underspin but somewhat inconsistently but I almost...

My opponent once beat former Olympian David Zhuang in a league match 12-10 in the 5th. He has been over USATT 2300 Since my game tends to be very strategically focused and doesn't let someone fully express himself, here is a match from almost two years ago against a younger and stronger looper...

Thanks for your post, Takkyu. Defending myself or my level would be the entirely wrong approach to responding to you as you have suggested many ideas that I usually summarily dismiss as not being part of my game or my approach to table tennis. I do find them interesting and will review them...

Nothing really new. The problem is that I have bad knees so my movement is limited. His topspin is heavy (his spin is just heavy) so I can't move much and still track it - I think there are some shots where I swing and miss the ball outright. Maybe if I played him every day, things would...

One of the reasons I like the US rating system is that you have an idea how good your opponent is or has been so you can put losses in perspective. I have also played this opponent a few times and playing him for the first time would be a bigger shock to my system though that goes both ways as...

Once you enter a club, you are no longer self-taught.

I can't use blades without grip tape any more. It's sad. They feel good in my hand, but immediately I put the rubbers on, I start feeling like the blade is head heavy or slipping or that something is missing. Then I put the grip tape on and everything feels fine. The grip tape doesn't really...