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Ah, okay. Always hard to get better without being around better players.

I thought Yogi_Beat at mytt was an ITTF certified coach in the Phillipines. And I hear a high level coach might be in your country sometime soon.

OK - here is a match with me playing at my best. Tell me whether Akrasia makes sense here. By the way, the shot at 10:28 is one of the hardest loops/kills I have ever hit in my life - in real time, I amazed myself with that impact. The shot at 25 mins in is the kind of shot you can't make...

Such details are very advanced and are largely a waste of time for building high level basic technique. If you have a good coach who gives you good fundamentals and keeps you relaxed while learning, over time, you will grow into figuring out such things as you will perform subtle experiments on...

I do a lot of serving practice, so I will say this - if there is any reason I want to meet and work with Brett in person, this is it! Brett probably has the answers to all sorts of questions that I cannot get an answer from over email because I can't pose them appropriately. Sidespin is...

And no, it's definitely not a backspin serve. A good backspin serve stops dead or travels back towards the server. The fact that the serve rolls on makes it no spin (very light backspin) or topspin (possibly light topspin).

Carl, you've said just about everything that has to be said. Bobpuls is largely optimizing a relatively spinless technique, to put it nicely. The good thing is that he has learned to control the path and depth optimally so it is low trajectory double bounce. That said the form and the swing...

Will do - maybe someone well get something out of it ;).

Another sock puppet...

Wait, you do realize that Jingkun beat the #6 player in the world, right? (Mizutani)

You unlocked my mind a little. I never made the connection between the floor serve and the table serve trajectory fully until now. Now I can see that part of the reason I like to watch my table serve complete its travel after the serve is over is because I know what the floor serve pattern is...

Par Gerell wins on an edge lob to take the match 4-0.

If you have a robot, you can use the collecting net. Or you can also buy a pingpongbuddy as it picks up balls fast. I prefer to practice at my club without my robot net collecting serves because you learn about the quality of your serve by seeing the full trajectory even when it comes off the...

The biggest problem I see among those who want to develop good technique is a desire to get good too fast because they don't see the risks of doing so and think that there are only benefits to trying and failing. There are also serious negatives as well unless the process is guided by a coach...

It's an interesting presentation, but I believe that most of it is now common knowledge in the top TT nations and the technical specifics are more important.

Now we are having grammar issues. I never said the rubbers CNT used were not spinny - I said the rubbers were relatively slow ("slower") in terms of catapult. The rubber I use is considered slow. But it is an offensive rubber. When you loop with it, you have to loop hard if you want the ball...

We have a 13 year old in my club who is 5 ft 10 or so. When he was 9, I used to serve the ball short and he couldn't reach it. Now, when he hits the ball, it hits the wall behind me before it lands because of his power.

I am not a high level player either. And smart players disagree all the time on what is a good way to learn the sport and what the optimal technique/approach is. Some people want to focus on Ma Long's technique because is the World #1, while other people want to understand why Marcos Freitas...

Yes, their strokes are really loud. To get the ball to move with slower and harder rubber, you have to have hard impact on your power loops and in general, power loops are relatively loud and hard. But I think if you compared the power and sound on those shots to the actual sound that you...