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German national team practice session...

This has to be filed under any publicity is good publicity.

Or Karakasevic, who you often list as well. But the problem in part also is that people want to be like the current #1. And it is more exciting to loop like Ma Long or backhand loop like Kreanga than it is to loop like Perrson or backhand loop like Waldner. And Waldner is outdated mostly...

Sorry, Marc. I think I have a strong backhand but next to your cannon, mine is a water pistol. You had better go ask Ovtcharov for his cannon or some 2400 level junior.

I guess it is a matter of context. Most people who ask these questions train in environments where it is hard to access the right kind of information to do it properly. If you can, by all means, go ahead. After all, something like this is what people were doing before information on proper TT...

Ah, our apologies. So what's the latest with your blade? Any pictures to share?

What was the guy who beat you's name?

Travelling outta town next week so I had to start prepping early. Tried to reach you. Good to hear it was all good.

Against a healthy Zhang Jike, everyone's else's feet look like they are in slow motion.

With the plastic ball and even before, sometimes, you have to hit into the ball more - the pros sometimes make a cracking sound. It's just that there is a feel of spinning that you have to find and once you find it, it can sometimes feel like you are cracking into the ball when driving it, but...

OK - let me post a few links to help aid this discussion: Here is the result of my latest training. Here is a guy who calls his serve a tomahawk. I think what I am doing is often exactly what he is doing but with a different racket trajectory per Brett's instruction. Here is a match...

That ball is actually not below the table when Boll plays it, though it is on the fall, yes. And just about every loop should finish with something like a 90 degree forearm snap so that is not the point. The real point is how fast your racket is moving and how much brush you get on the ball...

Fantastic match.

In my mind, the serve I am trying to do is exactly the same as the serve you do - yours is just better than mine - for now... :p

Sometimes, you have to win when something is really on the line for people to take you seriously. The real battle here is for the 5th spot in the WTTTC. The top 4 just proved what we already knew, and I think some people are taking all this too seriously. The main thing people might have...

I am sure that FZD's coach requested some kind of change in approach or something. It's unlikely that this is FZD just playing the way he does and losing so badly in matches.

I have a friend who spends his time trying to emulate the forehands of Ma Long and Wang Liqin but lacks their training and athleticism. This is the story of his life, though he thinks it is details of the technique being wrong.

Link doesn't work for me - maybe not accessible from the US :(.

FZD lost to Zhou Yu. That's enough for me.

I don't think you should generalize from Ariel Hsing and the close to the table women's game to looping generally. Close to the table, you can't take large strokes so speed is at a premium. In any case, there is a difference between keeping the elbow stable (which is really keeping the upper...