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Maybe a video of your stroke or someone you have taught will help me understand this difference that I supposedly do not understand? The other unsaid reason why I don't encourage hobbyists who are adult to learn to loop like CNT players is that table tennis is not solely about who has the best...

Which is precisely the problem. You can't do it, yet in your words, "anyone can learn it as long as they perform the mechanics with their body."

Sure, we can all analyze mechanics and enjoy the mechanics. Does that prove anything about amateurs being able to loop like Ma Long? Why is this kind of thinking limited to looping? As I pointed out, why not serving or pushing etc.? I think what you don't realize from a practical point of...

Here we go. I think you would be hard pressed to find a coach on the CNT who wasn't a high level player, penholder or shakehand, in his younger days, so at one time, they were all state of the art players. But that was not what I said or meant and you know it too. I said that anyone...

As is often the case, the people who post these things never share video of their own loops. I have watched a lot of tennis and I can't play like Federer. I have served a lot and I can't serve like Ma Long. Why should it be easy to loop like him? I mean you have written something that I...

Without video, it is hard to get proper feedback.

Then ask him to apologize for it. Stop saying that because he helps people that we ARE UNFAIR. We don't know him from Adam. That you do is helpful and carries weight with us, but that is no reason for him to be rude. It's not like him and Matt are buddies.

So you've seen this kind of crap before and you think the only reason why someone should not be kind and apologize is that he has a high coaching license? It's never the intention to drive people away, or so we all say - it is to make people feel bad and stupid, which can amount to the same...

Yearh - misinterpreting the role of missing in improving your game is what causes many adults to get frustrated during these drills.

Download and play the TTEdge game - maybe that might help.

On those kinds of drills, the focus is usually on reading the ball and doing an appropriate stroke to get it back, not on doing a full stroke. I think you have to realize and accept that.

Here are a couple of things you can try. The first one is related to an idea that I am trying to implement recently is to shadow the shot you would have taken even if the opponent misses the return. It doesn't apply here, but why not keep on playing until your coach stops, assuming that the...

The problem is the way trolls operate sometimes - this is why trying to make correct connections is important. Ad hominem is important when dealing with logic but unfortunately, life is not logic. In practical terms, it is very important to show the effectiveness of what you are preaching and...

If I wrote a post like his and everyone jumped on me, I would be apologizing. Just saying. It's very simple - if something is unkind, you don't have to sugar coat it, but you have to make a connection before saying it or not say it at all.

You make all kinds of assumptions in there - have you seen my coach? As in the coach who made me USATT 2000? He currently is rated officially USATT 1700 - because of his physical appearance, most people do not even take him seriously as a TT thinker until they see his students. He is best...

IT should really be mandatory for people to post video of their play before commenting on other people's strokes.

I am going to use this video a lot going forward - thanks.

He won the Westchester final this January.

I don't think it is harder but I agree that both go together in producing the results. If you have trained as much as those guys have, you get very good at those things. And of course, we now have TTEdge software to help us all ;).

Many of us make unconscious grip changes between strokes, Carl. When you are off the table, you anticipate the ball properly and have time to consciously switch so to speak. Heck, you may even adjust your body position unconsciously to compensate even more for the shot direction. None of that...