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It's a league match - I either focus on winning the match or I let things distract me. In a tournament, I grab an umpire. He is serving with long pips anyways.

It is easy to forget who you are playing and use general rules that keep you putting the ball on the wrong side of the table ;).

More league matches yesterday. I decided to play largely because I want to get my forehand concept more consistent. I will use body rotation as much as possible and try to get power almost every time on my forehand. Will help with stamina and weight loss as well. This one is for DerEchte -...

Wow, you pulled a Pete Rose there - when Pete Rose gets in the the Hall of Fame, we will reconsider you for MYTT... maybe....

Yes. Reckless play has a ceiling among players with good defensive skills, which is more often the case as you get better relative to your current level. You can hit the ball hard, but if you can't recover when it comes back, you are in trouble. I would have pivoted on more balls vs a worse...

Your backhand technique is likely just bad. Start with that and post video of your backhand loop practice. If we address that, then your thoughts about weight may go away.

You need to remember that both players are legitimately over 1900 USATT, forget everything else. I can play like Mr Vila against certain kinds of 1600 or lower level players. I was at Westchester when Bojan Tokic came. Bojan Tokic was beating most of the players by pushing and floating and...

Since you can't speak to a CNT player to get an explanation of why they did what they did but I am here to explain, let me explain so that you can see how you might not be seeing what the player is thinking. At 4:38, that ball is loaded with (side) backspin even if it is high. I can tell...

Not arguing you didn't get lucky but legit 1400 players don't get THAT lucky vs legit 2000 players - whatever I think of Mr Vila, he is a legit 2000 player - his official rating is too high as even he would admit, but he plays competitive matches against 2000 players and can obviously beat them.

Mr Archo, you act like Jun Mizutani, Adrien Mattenet, Michael Maze, Patrick Chila and Stephen Ouaiche never existed. Mr Vila's current official USATT rating is significantly higher than mine. He managed to beat a 2300+ player but I have not asked him what happened in that match. That result...

Hahaha. A 1400 beating Mr Vila. That must have made his day. Or you are not 1400 - which do you think makes more sense? :D

My back was sore after Saturday but I did some looping on Sunday to our club champion junior. After reviewing the video, I was very unhappy with with my forehand loop. IT seemed to be losing the upper body rotation that I had worked so hard on with Brett while he was here. I think part of...

OP is an inveterate EJ. Without that context, you are missing a lot of relevant information. In China, they really believe in ball bashing and softer rubbers make such ball bashing have far less predictable results closer to the table, especially vs topspin. In any case I don't believe a...

\ Softer rubber allows for slower swings to generate spin, eases pressure on the technique of the user.

Nah, he got extremely lucky. If CCY lost to Crisan by 2-4 or worse, Ma Long would not have made it out of the group. As it happened, CCY lost 3-4 - CCY could have lost the match by more and eliminated Ma Long so credit to CCY for playing it straight. It also ended up costing XX a chance at...

The cues are the same. It's really more that you are looking at things other than contact.

I used it in 1.9mm in 2014. Would be surprised if it changed that much. But maybe it did for all I know.

I never thought of Grip as very soft - soft topsheet, maybe, but I used to bash the ball with pleasure.

T80FX. All these things are ultimately personal preference.

You can make the videos unlisted so they are not youtube searchable and post for a specific audience. But if they are 100% against it, then just record for self as I think you do now. Many of the players I play against use the videos to improve their games and I don't out any tags for table...