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These were my first impression - high arc in a Tenergy 05 way, but not as fun to play if you have a Spring Sponge addiction.

What country are you in, Sebas?

Is this in all countries?

I would root for my friend. Then I would root for whoever had the right approach or strategy against the opponent's style. I seriously find it disgusting that Chu has not outgrown his allergy to pips/dead balls.

You see, the thing is this, I beat him a couple of years ago when I was the lower rated player. The difference was that then, I was not a looper, I was an allround player who mostly hit and dead block, unless it was backspin, which I looped. Players tend to look good when you give them what...

Quite a few in this channel. Must have been 2013 tho...

Hao Shuai played in Baltimore at the NA Teams in 2014. The best part of watching him play was seeing so many 2500-2700 players pop up or net his serves repeatedly. When he worked with his training partners, who were lower rated university students, he had to tell them what his spins were while...

There have been threads on this elsewhere but basically, but to compare for me, I played evenly with guys like Matt Faulkner and Sanga Quamina who I know are about 2000 USATT and ranked. The thing with players like Stephen is that they tend to play pips at a lower level than their rating while...

He has been as high as USATT 2224 (which means the 2150-2250 range) according to this: http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/Ratings/USATT-Individuals-Ratings

Yes, I was a spin Chinese rubber player and I used Big Dipper before using MX-S. The main reason I left MX-S was that even when you spun the ball, the arc was never that high. MX-P had a higher regular arc. What MX-S did that was great was that when I looped hard, the ball still had plenty of...

I am not sure I agree with the arc assessment of MX-S as being higher than MX-P. You have to swing so hard to get MX-S to truly arc that it is not worth the trouble. Almost like Tenergy 25.

I have a disguised topspin serve that uses this technique. May record it sometime. Not as pronounced though.

Thanks. You don't need to go to China to get Chinese coaching in the US - lots of Chinese/Asian imports, temp and perm, in TT clubs all over the US given it is an immigrant nation. I tried my best given the circumstances, I guess, but he was too consistent. I don't often lose points after...

Yes - that is the one I was hitting when I used to beat him, but for some reason it has broken down recently as I changed my technique to do the stroke without the sidespin. So I have to rebuild it again into my new technique. That's why this game is so painful - you change something and it gets...

I need to stop playing so deep into his forehand. Need to go wide and target middle more - my spin and pace does not affect him with Tenergy 05 as the ball is still too high from where I am playing it.

Boogar, if Carl came to Princeton to play in the league, you would have heard about it.

My sheets of EL-S and FX-S have arrived. Will pick them up tomorrow and give impressions soon.

You are trying to compensate for the lack of catapult of the rubbers. Either you fix your technique or go back to European rubbers (more likely, both). You likely have to rest as well.

I never said he does, I said he can. You need to watch how those points play out to see that Mizutani has been coached to stop lobbing. And Mizutani is not relieved to win a lobbing point, he expects to win a lobbing point. In any case, hitting a lob is not quite the same thing as hitting a...

Come on Carl. You mean they hadn't practiced it in a while. Pros all did a lot of that stuff as kids. But saying that a male pro has not done everything under the sun as a trick at least once is underestimating those guys. They do even weirder stuff and for some reason they never practiced...