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bobpuls, Do you really want to continue to post stupid things without thinking? That is for a person who lives in the EU ordering goods from outside the EU. Have you ever traveled out of your country before? Out of your continent? Why don't you just let the people who live in other...

Why are you acting so annoyingly? Read the first line of the table in the second link you sent. It says clearly that EU selling top Non-EU does not collect VAT. Now wonder so many of your posts in general rub me the wrong way - you keep on talking like you know things you don't know about.

Sigh... We don't have VAT in the USA - does that help? The USA is not in the EU - does that help?

No, you don't. You can try the order process without finishing the checkout to see whether it charges you or not. It will not.

Once you do a couple, you will wonder why you wasted so much time thinking of a bat as a finished product.

"To me, my blade! I shall smote thee with my loops of thunder!"

You're catching on fast. I have told the story a few times now, but when I was 1700 and stagnating for about 5-6 months with up and down results, I had just lost to a guy 0-3, 0-11 in the 3rd and I was mildly depressed going home. I asked my coach and practice partners what I needed to do and...

Table tennis rackets are not tools of extreme precision. To answer your questions directly - 1) I keep it in a racket case for the most part - sometimes, I may cover the topsheet with a plastic, but this is not necessary and I usually do it if the sheet is tacky, 2) I use water, but some...

He is going to be a good player - he just needs someone to show him how to spin the ball properly.

Both strokes are relative weaknesses in terms of consistency and technique but your backspin form and kill is much better than your topspin form and kill from an ideal perspective. I had similar issues. In my experience, looping backspin competently if at all requires you to learn to finish on...

I probably shouldn't piggyback too much on a good post, but one thing that you will realize as you get better is the importance of serve and receive. So what Carl is telling you is not a small thing. What he is telling you has the potential to give you the biggest improvements to your game...

Exactly - Chiquita is like a straight forward stroke round the side of the ball to generate mostly sidespin. Over the table backhand loop drive is around and over the ball or sometimes just through the ball. Many people have strokes that mix both but I still play mostly the drive version as I...

The tomahawk was blatantly illegal and the difficulty of reading that kind of tomahawk is one of the reasons why a ball toss became necessary to add to the rules. I tell people that it is too easy to control the ball height when no toss is done. If I were you, I would have called an ump, but I...

The pirate is not the player he once was, but that was a good win regardless. Like I said, your stroke technique on both sides is sufficiently poor and your movement sufficiently good that you could be 1800 very easily with fixes that seem minor but are major. On your backhand, your elbow is...

I know it seems like a tip but consider it a major technical fix that even you incorporate into some of your better shots. It's a common seperator of amateur and pro technique. To accommodate it with a smooth swing, your stroke might need other changes. Post some video of your early attempts...

Your English is good. Everything you have written shows you understand your game. I do not like your rubbers but they seem to suit your game. For backhand, you can also consider cheaper traditional rubber like Dawei XP 2008. If you like tensor, some people like Joola Rhyzm in softer sponge...

Your forehand topspin finishing position is the lowest hanging fruit. You swing too low and shallow and the inconsistency leads you to not trust it when swinging hard except on very easy balls. If you finish in the salute position consistently (you do the underspin salute decently, but have no...

Ariel, you don't trust me? Is your first opponent using pips? BTW, if you had told me that you were going to Westchester, I could have met you there or at least agreed to meet on Sunday. How did you do? NL

Switch to short pips whenever you have agreed to stop counterlooping or that attempting it is a waste of time.

The conclusion of some of us at MyTT was that ZJK's back went out so he started playing with more risk and was unable to do his forehand shots as effectively. Other people thought ZJK was fine and that we were just seeing things, but to me, it was clear that ZJK was injured in the 5th to 7th...