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I didn't play in the hidden serve era. I have a love hate relationship with the pendulum serve as well. I took me a long time to start accepting that I should be contacting the ball over my left hip.

This is a sensitive game, especially for us part timers. We form habits based on limited practice hours and probably even more on match play. IF you are taking a long term view towards improvement, it's best to do what you want to do better even if it costs you matches. The time spent doing...

You probably wouldn't notice it because in a real match, the recovery that most players use to complete their serves would be part of my motion and that would move the free arm away as the serve is completed. I don't start my serve in a position that impedes the view of the receiver so the ball...

The bigger issue is what happens when this serve stops working at some level. Are you then going to get better at serving it and in what way?

I disagree but to each his own. If what I am doing has issues, then the pendulum serve is fundamentally illegal.

Do you have any others? It's not about getting called for it. It's about following the rules. Some of us may not care about such things but I do. I know it is a good serve but that is not the point. My body orientation on that serve was pretty extreme.

That's a bad toss chased but maybe I should practice that for left handers. But if you are where a right handed receiver is, you will see the ball. What's the time stamp for that serve?

Thanks, Pricey. The serves are far from optimal - this was mostly a consistency of spin generation exercise. I think when I start serving to hit precise trajectories, points and depths on the table, I will be challenged more by the things you mentioned. My coach criticized the consistency...

Did Joo really play Shibaev? I have heard reports elsewhere that the match was stopped at 6-3? I would pick Shibaev in that battle but not by 3-0. The Asia team this year was really good. No Dima or Freitas - shows you what Europe was thinking...

It's partly the angle of the camera, which is clearly a little to the right of the centerline, but I have never had someone tell me that I am hiding my serves in my life, though I have sometimes in annoyance vs people who hide theirs but never consistently as I don't practice it and it hurts my...

Here is is my latest backspin serve practice video. It may bore you but it is good stuff and fair warning should you be pushing my serves in the near future.

Thanks. Would have loved to see the Aruna vs. Pitchford match.

By the way, why did I make a big deal out of this? Let me explain a little. I am not saying you should kill the ball early but I am saying that you should strive to put spin on the ball consistently, which is something you do not always try to do but which should be a part of your style at the...

The backhands were good but the two first strokes were lazy relative to those backhands. Something to think about. All balls without heavy topspin can be approached with shots similar to those backhands. That will raise your level if you get it right.

That's what drove the rule, so trust the ITTF to go in the wrong direction.

Here is some of my small knowledge on the subject: Some of the quads support lateral movement, some of the quads support staying low. All other things being equal, the lower you are, the harder it is to move laterally. The benefits of staying low are not moving faster but that being lower...

You don't move faster, you can cover more table in a certain context.

Currently sick of table tennis if you can believe that. Trained a lot and learned a lot over the past week and a half working with Brett and watching him work with others. The sport is extremely fascinating and you can only marvel at how little you know compared to what you thought you knew...

Even if it goes well in Germany, how do we know Germany is like the rest of the world?

It's a terrible rule.