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Yes, from a historical standpoint, not always from a functional or technical standpoint. Some things about technique are quirks. Some things are unique gifts. Some things are just pure accidents. In the end, just focus on the essentials. Let a high level coach fix your accidents.

Part of the problem is that we are overthinking the small details. You can fault everyone if you look at the small details, even Ma Long. What usually happens is that technical improvement is at the end of an experimental process with basic fundamentals at the start and compromises at the...

So I wanted to see what EL-P was like and put it on a Vega Pro blade in late January. It felt okay but since I had other stuff I liked, I was not in the mood to play with it. I saw one of my Yasaka Sweden Extras last week and I became nostalgic. So I moved the EL-P to it without doing a...

Tenergy 05 if you want more spin, Tenergy 64 for more speed, Tenergy 80 if you just like Tenergy sponge. EL-P is a damn good rubber though...

IF you are really desperate, people who don't play can learn to feed good multiball - it just takes some training and practice.

DrPaco, I looked at the videos. Carl gave the best advice in that you need to loop much more and play with more spin consistently. Focus on spin over speed for a while. Then when your shot selection becomes really good, you can mix it up. You play too many balls at your opponent, and it is...

Now I am even more interested in that videotape of your play. Archosaurus, take it from me that you are very intelligent, but most good players in table tennis did not get good by understanding what they do, they got good by drilling as children. As a good friend likes to say, if you ask a...

Exactly. So take it from someone who does that when someone tells you he has only played for 13 months and is playing as well as DrPaco is, the first thing you do is appreciate how well they play. Because most people were not playing that well after 13 months. Hitting the ball harder in...

Have you ever coached someone to make him or her a better player? Just curious. Over time, I think posting on this site and the discussions you will have will help you appreciate the mental side of table tennis more. Your posts don't seem to see this, maybe because you are young. There is...

I wish I could see Archosaurus play. Some good stuff in there as well as some (especially psychologically) dangerous advice. But OP is young. He has time to figure it out and the dangerous advice may be enough anyways. DrPaco, For playing 13 months, your game is excellent. There are...

He is looking at your form and missing a lot of other details. I agree with you.

The test needs to be run with a variety of boosters.

Never underestimate the power of doing two things that do the same thing but look different. Table tennis is interesting like that.

The thing about Brett is that Brett actually teaches whip. Other coaches may say things like use your wrist or loosen your grip or change your grip but Brett has an amount of whip he ideally wants to see - for me, the cue which I forgot in the set of videos I filmed before this new set (not on...

Yes, but in this case, it is not just the spin but the form. I tend to generate good spin on my serves - but in this case, I am working on a variety of technical details, of which spin is one, with Brett to get a high level serve with variations for side top and side backspin - I am working on...

Well, I haven't received feedback on this set of videos yet. The problem is that sometimes, how you feel and what you are doing don't jibe together. If you ask me whether I am getting whip in the prior videos to this, I will tell you yes. But Brett saw things he didn't like and asked for a...

Innerforce Layer are not a good as Innerforce blades if the rumblings I hear have merit. I bought my Innerforce blades used and love them.

I am getting more whip but the video is only showing 30% of it and the backswing still looks a little stiff. May resume on Friday. Or possibly tomorrow. The search for easy whip continues.

Without video, I will say that the method can tax the shoulder a lot. So with my RA also killing my shoulder, I have tried to move my whip to being more around the elbow/forearm.

Yep. I read this and I said that this looks essentially in some ways like my forehand looping technique. I think it has its power limits, and there are reasons why if you play further back that you would want to use standard looping technique, but in many ways, what Greg is saying is an element...