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German rating is different from USATT. It's not so much about the rating but having a feeling for the ball. If your blade does not promote your feeling for the ball, you will try to hit the ball the same way all the time. In general, the contrast in feeling between a good stroke and a bad...

You should start slow, the robot doesn't need to. The thing is that you need to avoid tensing up in table tennis in general and the #1 source of tensing up in my experience is trying to hit the ball harder than your technique is ready to sustain. Even when your technique can usually sustain...

JeffM, Try hitting the ball much more slowly when you begin practicing and build up every two or three minutes to higher speeds.

My approach is slightly different but related. Fix the upper arm and only move it in conjunction with your core. I also sometimes lock my shoulder tightly to my body when practicing or try to wrap my elbow to my body on the backswing. But if you have the TT Edge app, there are 3 different...

You are a 100% right and I was going to get on him about it but relative to the rest of us, he is young so it is not a big deal. When you don't get coaching or training, the only way to really improve is to EJ - even people who train find their improvement almost imperceptible talk less of...

I agree, but it is not in the spirit of what we are telling him. Equipment matters in terms of making it easier to do certain things. It is like trying to tell someone to learn parallel parking with a large SUV. Is it possible, sure, but is it as easy as starting with a compact car, no. What...

Gavin, thanks for posting. We TTD members are greedier than that. We want the secret sauce to your serves so we can do the serves like you. Your topspin kick is ridiculous. I want *that* serve. Some of us would pay to see something like this from you:

I don't think I am playing table tennis this week. I am going to relax and rest. I do have coaching today though, so that might interrupt me a little but the Cavs are playing the Warriors. Maybe I will try to get out of it.

Thanks for the kind words, strangeloop. Your wrist acceleration is really good. Aspects of your form can be improved but that usually comes with lots of coaching or lots of video practice. Have you sent your video to Brett? You can join us here (you don't have to though)...

Okay. Let's table this for another time and another thread. You seem to enjoy playing with what you use and that is what matters. If you want to get serious about improving, get a coach and use either what they recommend or an all-wood 5 ply with good feeling and soft outer ply.

I think the first question is whether you have a coach. If not, do you record yourself? High throw rubbers are good in the sense that they generate good spin and loop for you sometimes. The bad thing is that they don't challenge your technique as much and you can loop with really bad...

You seen to have become addicted to "crisp feeling" which I think is another word for what I call "hard contact". Looping is not about crisp feeling, it is about deforming the rubber and maybe the wood and getting the ball to stay on your paddle long enough for you to impart good spin onto it...

Well, there are two - there is the loop kill for an easy ball - I hit about 6 of 7 of them over two games. I used the T5000 in that match. That's not the shot I am talking about. I don't think I did the smash loop hybrid in that match. IT is more obvious when my forehand breaks down and...

Not so much higher but standard. In general, I tend to finish my loop too low. I have this smash loop hybrid shot that doesn't get much spin but can sometimes have wicked pace. It's one of the reasons why I am going to a faster blade as my first instinct on my forehand is not usually to...

I haven't tried the Inner Layer ZLC and people who have used it have told me that it is quite different in some ways from the Innerforce ZLC so I won't comment on it. What I will point out is that the frequencies dampened by the composites are often the frequencies you need as an adult...

I'm in the market for an Innerforce ZLC again if you want to sell... People using fast composite blades as adult learners need to realize that they are trying to ice-skate up hill. Getting something like an Offensive S, SPW or Korbel, helps you get in touch with your feeling for the stroke...

There is a new cherry juice brand called Cheribundi being sold at a lot of department stories, including Walmart. TRy a 32 ounce bottle of that every day (or half of that) and see how you feel. You probably also need to reduce the amount of animal products/sugar/oil in your diet somewhat but...

I know what you mean and thanks for the compliment because I know that was the original spirit. The man was once Trinidad and Tobago champ and is now in his late 50s. His style is very athletic so he isn't happy that he can't quite play to his standards anymore. He beat up on me a lot but the...

Making a (retired) 2300+ player go whoa by killing his serve has to be up there. Try hitting a serve that hard sometime.

IF the ball does it all for you, stick to the ball. All I will say is that it is hard to read the amount of spin on the ball by watching the ball if the spin is really high.