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You are swinging shallow during your footwork drills, Carl. Don't swing across your neck, try to get to the eyebrow!

Okay, I think I better understand you now - so you like really hard outer plies (like walnut or rosewood) since I have never really considered koto soft. How far back from the table are we speaking about here and how often do you end up there when rallying?

When I have tennis elbow, I tend to massage the muscles close to my tendons pretty hard and it tends to go away pretty quickly. I also have had a lot of good success using the Theraband Flexbar to do the Tyler Twist.

IT's hard to recommend stuff when you don't know the player and the playing level. Sometimes, footwork is not what you need to improve but everyone will tell you it is. If you do need to really work on footwork, what is not important right now are the actual steps but learning to move into...

If TBS and TB ZLC are too slow for you, you are probably too good to be posting here.

2-1, 10-8, yes and definitely at 2-1, 10-9 after Liam served long into a Mizutani loop kill. That was the most perplexing thing - long serves are usually a sign of nerves. I think coaches are different and use timeouts differently. And Cook knows Pitchford better than we all ever will. All...

Carl, I know space considerations made it difficult but a view from behind is helpful as well. It would also make your grip more plainly visible. A camera on the right side is better than one on the left side because it is closer to your racket arm. I have made some changes to my grip to...

Exactly. At 10-8, I would have called timeout just to call the plays. Whatever happens, live with it. But after that serve at 10-8 that got looped for 10-9, no excuse.

Carl, I wouldn't be concerned about the wrist thing for now. The key would be whether you play a good backhand out of the same grip and would be willing to do the movement or grip changes required to hit certain shots like flicks, fades and pushes. But as a pure loop it looks decent. It's...

You are very polite...

Niwa is still a top 20 player who lost to another top 20 player.

How people answered so confidently before seeing the 1-12 draw is beyond me though I might not do better having seen it. Men 1. China 2. Japan 3. Korea 4. France Women 1. China 2. Singapore 3. Japan 4. Hong Kong

It's not the twiddling but really your inverted level or short pips spin level. Practicing with twiddlers is an antidote as is the random multiball by your coach. If the twiddler is a better player than you with inverted, the problem is not the twiddler but the player's overall level...

Carl, I raised the issue of speed first, not Archosaurus. He was actually more impressed with it than I was. I usually do backhand flip/loop that ball but it was so high and my opponent was not in my rating class, so I decided to make the safe play.

Table tennis punditry is not easy my friend. But we try to be nice and not name people. That way, people can think they are like Lord Voldemort and we fear them...;)

It's a high ball from him - he has no right to know where my return is going or complain about the outcome of the point. I was going to flick it to his backhand but he was so frozen and the ball was so high that I changed my mind. My shot likely wasn't good enough for a faster opponent so I...

This one is for you, Carl. 10 mins, 14 secs in.

IT's not so much struggle per se, but what they are able to do. Can they attack all kinds of balls with their pips or can they only hit one kind of ball? Or can they control all kinds of balls or can they control only one kind of ball? Usually, most pips players live off the unfamiliarity of...

But nothing you have said applies to the defender's technique...

OK, since what I said and what he said are both half-truths, let me write a bit more on it. There are players who went to junk rubbers (I am not a fan of the phrase) because they realized that it suited their game in one of a few ways: 1. Their coach trained them to use it, or it just fits...