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The differences are less meaningful than many people like Yinykin often make out. In fact, the most meaningful difference is how far the USA is from where high level TT play occurs given how important such exposure is at an early age and at various points in one's career and how this negates...

I considered making it but decided to stay in my area and play Westfield. If you have been training as I have seen in the last video and you know how to play around your strengths, you should do well. I don't know whether you will be favorite in the U1300, but at the lower levels, unless you...

Yes. And those players get adjusted. And such players, when you step to the table, you may get obviously outclassed. And there are many such players I have beaten and lost to throughout my playing TT. In some cases, I have been those players. I have had periods when I broke 1900 for...

It depends. I am just saying that if he is the best player in the event, anyone who beats him has to out play him. IF you don't think this way, you will be always prone to thinking that there is someone out there to upset you. And it will become a form of paranoia. If you accept that even...

So I did some work trying to mimic DerEchte's serves today. The footage shall remain hidden from the Goon squad, but I think someone who watches these videos carefully and thoughfully will see what is happening on the backspin and topspin serves. DerEchte doesn't so much serve a pendulum as he...

It's clear from the story that you did nothing wrong - you just lost to a good player that you could have beaten. I try to find the short serve in my arsenal that my opponent had trouble returning that gave me a third ball attack.

Why not, if you are the best player in your division?

You seriously think you squatted further down than this?

I heard this story on mytt a while back so I was a little jaded by it. MY view is that you need to know the coach well enough to discuss this kind of stuff directly or it really makes no sense to ask for any form of loyalty.

The kid lost one match. Why make a mountain out of a molehill if you don't even know the coach well enough to discuss this directly with him?

Brett has done a lot of stuff to simplify serving. That will not replace the hours you need to put in to develop good serves. DerEchte will tell you the hours he put in . Mine are at least 4 years, maybe with more focused in the last year and a half. I can't count the number of hours I have...

Some players use your spin against you. This is one of the underestimated aspects of table tennis at the lower levels. Sometimes, you have to scrub it so that you get less of your own spin coming back at you. And when you can make it look like you haven't scrubbed anything, some players...

Carl is asking for the emulation because I am a coach. So he knows I will decode all your secrets so that hardworking readers/viewers can figure them out ;).

For context. When I next go to DC or something, will make sure I don't forget my camera. The thing is that serving like this also massively improves your push and your flick.

A high level coach told me that when you want to serve, most of your focus should be on where the first bounce is on the other side. What it makes you realize is that you can serve topspin short if you get the first bounce on your side closer to your end line. So for me, most serves, both...

Fukuhara was higher ranked through the qualification cycle held by the Japanese team and at the end of it as well. The top 2 played singles, the top 3 played teams. People make similar arguments about Yoshimura vs Koki Niwa but the rules are simply being followed as laid down by the JNT - top...

It pays to read carefully...

11-2 Dima.

The thing is that when Der Echte and I play each other, you just see both players missing and popping of serves pr putting balls into the net left and right and the winner is whoever gets back a few of those third balls vs popups better on that day and who plays third ball better.

Actually, I think my new serves can compete favorably with Der Echte. Part of the reason I did this video was because Brett told me I had lost the plot on my serves. I thought he meant I was doing too many backhand serves, but what he really meant was that I was doing all these large backswing...