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In general, the secret to stroke stability in table tennis is always elbow positioning - what you are struggling with is probably a combination of having the elbow too close to the body and it causing you to reach forward for leverage and weakening your stroke overall. Elbow position always...

I think What causes your old stroke to put stress on the shoulder is that you probably reach out too far to the ball when doing it. In general, a helpful tip Brett gave me when I analyzed someone's backhand with pips that I should have remembered from my own history with the backhand is that...

Even stomping while hitting the ball is annoying, especially when it is an unnatural stomp. On serves, the rules allow it. After that, it is umpire judgement. There is a guy who I play at tournaments who stomps when hitting the ball and he knows I will call him out on it so to his credit, he...

Must have been during speed glue era. The larger point is pretty valid.

Since you have the rubber on one side already, you can simply turn your racket over and play with it for a while. While I haven't used Rising Dragon, I have used hard rubbers on both sides before. I believe that equipment issues are personal. The bad (softer) plastic balls often require me to...

He came out of lurking to post that...

THe thing is that at the highest levels, all they are often doing is playing with fast heavy spin and their athleticism allows them to generate so much power that they can spin the ball heavy and fast. Us amateurs can't do that so we gave to settle for slow heavy spin. But if people knew how...

It's not about swinging too hard - it is about learning the right contact and mechanics for generating spin and stressing the rubber to its limits. As you get better, you have to learn to stress the combination of rubber and wood to its limits. If you can't create that friction with thin and...

I think it is clear that OP is trolling and is pushing his leash on charitable interpretation to its limits.

It's his relative inexperience. He hasn't played long enough to be able to read spin off people's strokes and the ball trajectory. So he misses a lot of balls in matches by not adjusting his stroke to them. The other things that hold him back are minor compared to that. Part of the reason I...

So the World #7 plays the world #5 (who he has a superior head to head score vs) better than the World #35 plays the world #5 and you think it is technical as opposed to being about the relative levels? Again, you don't have the same problem as a World Class player playing an even stronger...

Hopefully to inspire Knife and to show people that it is possible for 900 rated players to counterloop:

One qualified coach I know will simply tell you that if you want proper feedback, you have to post video. I tried to relate your post to the video but failed to find evidence of what you were describing. And of course, whether Steger's issues are related to yours is another thing altogether.

Would probably need to see the video but looping in general does not need a stable elbow. It does revolve around how you use the elbow but I have found that being too rigid with the elbow position can cause tightness that impacts the flexibility of the whole stroke on both FH and BH. A rigid...

Go to medium pips first. Try DHS C8 or Dawei 388i-c. IF he wants real SP immediately, 802, not the -40, as the -40 is a bit too much like inverted and may hurt him too much initially.

Transfer balance is a very ambiguous term. IF you bend your knees and rotate your core, that is sufficient. Up until I broke 2000, I had no forehand and my game was essentially the women's game. This match is before I ever got advice on how to do anything from Brett with my strokes - I used...

The video itself is over a year old. Knee or no knees I would probably change a few things today but other than bending lower, it is essentially correct, especially the swing around 3 mins to 3.5 mins in. Balance transfer IMO is overrated, core rotation is not. The problem with balance...

You can hit the ball out of your hand if that helps. Your timing and touch challenged by the carpet irregularity is not advanced enough for you to attempt what you are doing without supervision if you want good and consistent results. But you might be that supertalent that gets a lot out of...

So important it had to be said twice...

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