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Good for you, Ma Long.

This is third ball but even for serves, a high level coach told me that almost no one serves consistently short below the world class level and that you are better off waiting for a ball to come long to loop it than to reach over the table to attack a ball. The number of balls that will drop...

Ah, if you can consistently attack short heavy backspin over the table, that makes sense. In my experience, this strategy has risks, but it works if it can be done consistently. I don't seriously distinguish between half long and long - half long is actually worse than long as long at least...

If opponents are still pushing your backspin serves long, by all means, continue to use them. I did that too. But any opponent good enough to deny you a third ball on a no-spin serve will deny you one even more easily on a backspin serve by pushing short. For me, the reason why I hate...

Butterfly for composites, sure, partly because of their innovation, but there are too many good all wood blades to cede any kind of mantle to Stiga, IMO.

Nah, you are too pessimistic about float serves. I probably serve more float/light backspin than anything else because people CANNOT eat it for breakfast once it is low enough and it is hard to put enough spin on the ball to prevent me from coming behind it. Putting it short requires an...

Aren't those balls crappy?

Brian Pace is inconsistent against the ball Crisan is feeding him. I don't think that is a sign of Crisan's effort level but that is okay. I used to get that kind of comment from lower rated players when I was a blocker. They would ask why I wasn't attacking and wanted me to give them my best...

Here is the match vs Boll. One of a few. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CixobZtMLIM

I don't see him trying that much harder. I see the opponent being more powerful and consistent, the latter especially.

They are different videos - I link to the times but unfortunately, this site automatically converts youtube videos to links. The good thing is that your comment helped me notice something I didn't see before which is good.

I think sometimes, the issue is interpretation. The stroke arcs naturally - it's a matter of degree. And some people do funny things with their elbows and wrist to arc the stroke which makes it worse. But I have seen 2200 players deliberately arc their strokes by turning the wrist inwards and...

The first point, you have to go to 4:43 in to see the point. The second video you have to go to 25:53. After seeing the points, I want to ask two questions. Assume you were a high level coach and asked to analyze these points: 1. Which point do you find more impressive? 2. Which point do...

Hmmm... Seems I underestimated you the last time we played. A worthy opponent. I look forward to our next match.

Quadri Aruna, who is in the world top 30, played Chuan Chi Yuan, who has been perennially in the world top 10 (well over a decade). After the match, Aruna said that CCY didn't let him play, that CCY brought his own ball it seemed (Aruna was speaking metaphorically). The LA Open final between...

It really depends on the organizers. One Butterfly club uses Butterfly 40+ (not G40+) which is why I pretty much almost never play there though I might play their league the Friday after the coming one. Another Butterfly club uses the Nittaku 40+ at cost to the club. Two other clubs use XSF...

As a wise man once told me, you need to post video to get proper feedback. Without the video he posted for us, Archosaurus would still be Ma Long in his head watching idiots like NextLevel play ping pong.

Contact the manufacturer/distributor of your robot - you may need to either clean the balls or tweak something to get the robot to work with the 40+ balls as it was clearly designed for the 40 balls.

Here are two videos by Samson Dubina - he doesn't discuss no spin but the concept of friction he describes is helpful. This is what most lower level players don't understand and something many higher level players do intuitively but struggle to teach.