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He switched from one sided to two sided but the problem is that the blade one-sided is a bit light. Most one-sided PH blades are heavier, so he is trying to find a balance between the weight of a one-sided blade supposed to be two-sided and his own personal preferences.

Stick a lighter pips on your backhand side and you might even use that for your forehand if you prefer it. There is no reason to go double inverted coming from a light one-sided penhold.

My friend, with all due respect, you are not being serious here. Let's look at the forehands you missed in this supposedly bad 2nd game- twice in a row, you served long and fast into your opponent, your opponent looped the ball - you missed the counterloop and you are complaining? You did not...

Archo, I unintentionally skimmed your last post. I have already told you what to do - post regular video of your serve practice. Open a new thread to do it. What you will gain from that will help you with all your strokes. When you do that and post video, I will take you off the ignore...

A wise coach once told me that strategy can destroy your focus on technical improvement and ultimately cap your level. By this, he meant that people who get away with things like pushing to weak backhands or forehands rather than improving their ability to open off backspin consistently or...

Archo doesn't realize that in the world of TT, no one does it alone. We all received help from different players during our TT growth, plenty of the most valuable help for free, some of it through paid coaching. The reward is seeing someone get better. TT is too small a sport for us to drive...

strangeloop, You have to be very clear on what you are looking for when posting these videos. What I can largely see is someone who is playing well but played someone who played better. What are you looking for? You can't solve the problem of losing. For all I know, based on the videos you...

Both these players do and they aren't Chinese obviously:

Slow loops require whip motions that are not really slow - they all require good acceleration - it's more about the quality of contact with the ball. So you need to be used to getting your racket moving and timing the ball, which requires you to be warmed up and ready to loop as if you are...

Laistrogian, You and 42andbackpains are still ball bashers. Nothing wrong with ball bashing per se, but since you both have movement issues, it caps your level since you don't recover quickly enough vs basic blocks. Embracing the rally is required to get better at table tennis for most...

The video I was asking for was video of the players he is talking about. As David pointed out, serve technique for good servers is often universal but there are idiosyncratic elements specific to each player that can be pointed out if we see who exactly he is talking about.

Yes, it definitely takes time. As Der Echte said, some people will actually tell you not to do what I told you because it loses control. They will say start with a little and add it over time. For me, it is a matter of how much you train. If you practice a lot, do it all the time in practice...

Video?

Well said. IF Archo posted a minute or two of serve practice on a daily basis or at least 3 times a week and asked for tips to improve his serve, then I can get him off the ignore list for that. Serves are something you can improve all by yourself and in fact, if you can get the serves better...

T80 surprised me enough that one day, at my level and with my slow blades, I might do T64. But the real point of this post was to say: See you there, I am going for all 3 days too. Unfortunately, your concubine, Ding Ning, and your girlfriend, Liu Shiwen, decided to pull out at the last second.

Every time I play HTSB, I go back to square one on serve return. His motion is fast enough that if you don't attention and photograph the contact, you will just not remember what happened and the ball trajectories are all weird enough that they confuse you even though the kick is there and then...

Yes, it is what I described - you may actually need to open the paddle more as you brush sometimes - I actually don't close the paddle when I Want to hit the ball hard if it has no-spin - any appearance of closing is forced by the ball height. My wrists are also quite a bit more flexible and...

Great to hear. If you want to relax more, get something even softer on both sides. I switched to T80 from T05 and I finally started blocking and smashing even better. Not saying you should per se, but my point is that you are still using some of the most challenging Euro/Japanese rubber and...

The biggest thing Archo needs is a friend who wants to get good at TT as badly as archo does. That by itself will do magical things for archo's game. A soliloquy of the sort he presently engages in only results in internal chaos or delusional order.

This is a different version of the same problem. Is table tennis knowledge about practical results, ability to teach, level of play , ability to write about etc. First of all, anyone can intellectually understand and repeat words if they have the requisite linguistic skills. The problem is...