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Baal, great posts, but I warn you again (I know the posts were for the benefits of others, but in case you were trying to speak to kowabunga): Again, anyone taking kowabunga seriously is better off scratching a kettle with their bare knuckles.

There are more exceptions than you think. We really don't know what is out there to be honest. Quadri Aruna uses Joola rubbers, for example.

Again, anyone taking kowabunga seriously is better off scratching a kettle with their bare knuckles.

My feeling exactly. Baal is letting his personal experiences bias him too strongly. The Chinese approach should have settled this already.

What drove the observation?

Found the link and video. http://www.samsondubina.com/videos/80-mph-forehand

Not playing well is not the problem with lower rated players giving advice. Pretending they know what they don't know is. We have all done it, so we know it. But the danger is that when players pretend to know things that they do not and are not parroting better players, they end up saying...

Samson Dubina has a give-me-your-best-shot drill that you might like. Someone serves to you and you pop the ball up and then try to bring the attack back. Maybe that is what you are looking for,

IMO, you are diagnosing the problem wrongly. The real issue is either the predictability of your attacks or the unpredictability of those of our opponents. First of all, no one should be bringing back a powerful third ball attack. Otherwise, it just wasn't that powerful. The exceptions are...

David, There are quite a few higher level anti and pips players than Mark Berg.

No, I have not. China still gets three gold medallists in the team event and are still the top nation, so the total number of medalling athletes is the same. The sport is getting killed by more prestigious sports and computer games. I have generally understood why people say that the Olympics...

Stop acting like a snob. Start with someone whose loops you can block properly and earn your way to the top.

I think that idea was also considered and I am not sure what came of it. In any case, they would have to keep China out of that as well and that would not fix the problem. Some things required to grow a sport are not fair to specific individuals. IF Lebron James was paid his true value as...

Kids not going for TT has nothing to do with whether one or two or three people can get to Olympics in singles. I wrote elsewhere that it will be interesting to see whether TT's popularity can survive its decline in China. But that decline will have little to do with the number of spots in the...

Nah, he flips the video recording to reverse the images.

Given how most countries handle Olympic budgeting, this can hardly be true.

The Japanese coaches laid down the qualification rules and followed them. Most of the contest was last year.

Low is far more important than heavy. I have found that the worst thing you can do is give a higher level player a line of sight angle into your side of the table. You just coughed up the point.

You really mean a cheaper version of this:

This was Brett's first video on serves and is still one of my favorite. Takes you through the whole process of building a serve. Combine it with this contact point video here: