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One day, Archo may find a real table tennis club. Then he may have millions of questions which he will have to pay a coach to learn the right answers too. Then he will remember a time when he was actually around players who were giving him these answers for free. And he will remember his...

Coaching people who can't generate racket head speed is one of the hardest things you can do in table tennis.

Thanks. I work with Brett Clarke on my serves. He has a really amazing bunch of serves and he is very much into technical detail when performing a serve - the pattern of the swing has to be right, the elbow position has to be on point etc. He just things my elbow position is subpar. That...

I am still working through my serving issues but in any case, part of what makes backspin and no spin effective on short fast serves (the double bounce short but almost half-long variety) is that most decisions to push short are made before the serve is done. So having a heavy backspin serve...

Thanks for this. Unfortunately, I didn't record the matches where this happened, though I feel that I improved the stroke a little in the second set of loops for that. But I think you are right that I should work even harder on getting my backswing even higher. I have serious counterlooping...

The 3rd alternative is to learn to ask questions in a way that shows an understanding of your level of TT. In fact, when playing better players or watching them or interacting with them, it is almost a waste of time to do anything other than ask questions. Pick their brains, enjoy yourself...

If you don't like it, you can always go back.

Many people I play are not my peers (as a Blue belt, I enjoy beating up on White and Yellow Belts). That said, if those are the people you are comparing me to, I agree. I would just say "most of your opponents" as many of my peers actually have pretty good pendulum serves.

Pgpg, nukeskywalker... where are you....

Voltron... Okay. I need to get back to playing in the Lily Yip league...

How many of you peers have you played or watched to make that kind of statement?

I saw nothing wrong with it either other than knowing who was posting it and knowing that he was repeating exactly what other people had posted elsewhere. Archo has a penchant for plagiarism that we can decide to ignore if we want to. But in his case, he probably still fails to understand that...

Other than how busy they are, one of the reasons why many pros do not interact in forums is because of the attitudes lower rated players show to them -rather than ask questions, they criticize or make suggestions. You will hear a lower rated player saying to a pro that his loop form is bad and...

Until you start posting videos, just realize I will start ignoring your posts. You write like someone who likes to pretend he knows what he doesn't and that just sends me up the wall. Here is the comment made by someone closer to your level on the same issue. Read it and compare it to yours...

Yes, everyone knows it is an elbow positioning problem, including me who posted the video in order to share my struggles with people. In fact, if you see the shadow swings, you see a higher elbow position. I also have shoulder issues from my arthritis. The question for me is why the higher...

Thanks, Archo. Do you have any video of your pendulum serve to share? You seem to be an expert on the subject so I was wondering...

Played a few matches yesterday. Got to the club yesterday as I Wanted to work on my pendulum serves. I saw a chopper there that I hadn't played in a while. Played him in the first match and missed a lot of power shots and lost 1-3 (3rd game was 1-1 with multiple deuces and it was losing that...

If you have been reading what I wrote elsewhere, the light spin on the ball can still be used by good players to good effect. Brett actually got me to confirm that his no-spin serve was extremely light topspin by the time it got to me(as in the ball was rolling forward). This was his way of...

The instruction I got from Brett was different, but there are always different approaches to serving.

But none of the options are as strong as they would be vs the spin serves they are designed for. In any case, you have given your opinion and I respect it. Zhang Jike almost never serves corkscrew serves and Ma Long almost never serves reverse pendulum. People are successful with different...