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Shibaev-Gardos was amazing. Shibaev and Gacina share the award for heroes of lost causes.

It won't make much of a difference other than maybe helping your mind adjust. It might hurt at a higher level in specific ways. Table tennis is a precision sport as well as an accuracy sport so being able to put the ball at precise locations is pretty critical. My guess is that many of the...

Megaspin works with Butterfly NA as well. The only thing that didn't change quickly enuff was T05. Not sure whose fault that was.

On a slightly more serious note, one of the things I appreciated yesterday that with more footwork drilling, my timing for moving towards the ball would be different. What do I mean? I am realizing that moving towards the ball when it is hit is not necessarily a good thing! It's often better...

Portugal won when Timo could play (though Ovtcharov was not 100%). Even with Timo, Portugal has the players to win. I think that it is 50-50 in either case because the Portugal players tend to elevate their game as a team - Freitas, Appolonia, Monteiro, Geraldo - its just a great team.

The demo serve contact definitely had backspin. The others were a bit different.

People should give the thumbs up heavily to one of the best posts ever above. I emboldened and enlarged my favorite parts. As someone who works closely with Andy, I initially found it puzzling that he was asking questions so early in his table tennis experience about the mental part of the...

No, it's not just yours and in fact, it is one of the things I don't like about the serve. The main reason why I still use it occasionally is that the mere use of it still gives opponents trouble at my level and that my backspin is heavy enough to get me at least one point when I first use it...

Yeah, many people are doing this now - wonder why Brett went with the ancient version of the serve.

This is the most awesome TT site in the Universe...

What I find interesting about all this is that if you watch Brett's serve, he is sometimes actually doing exactly what you describe, though he confessed on MYTT that occasionally, the handle does hit his wrist or come over. Note that Timo Boll for example has his come over the wrist and I...

I bought this tape on Baal's recommendation and I now offer tape to people since I often reuse mine over and over and even transfer it across blades.

Kong Linghui also did - I find the achievement contrived and not that impressive other than as one mark of a great player. Wang Liqin is a great player and has no Grand Slam - no World Cup even!

99% of the same effect comes from turning your shoulders while your knees are bent. The bottom line is that you just have to use proper and natural technique. IF you throw a ball/frisbee or punch a bag, how do you generate power? The loop uses 95%-100% of the same motions.

Missed that detail - it's already prefactory tuned. And you know me, the only boosting I do is with my wrists - turbo boosted elbow and wrist snaps!

What glue do you use that made Big D stubborn? It has always been well behaved for me.

Playing till 30-33 is fairly recent. They used to stop a bit earlier than that when China was really dominant.

Here are the reviews of Evolution rubbers - no reason you can't buy two Evolution rubbers and be done with your search. http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/equipment/reviews/user/23040

I find your statements interesting in light of why I am trying to do this. While I may or may not use these movements in matches as much as I would hope to, I want my body to perform more like that of a TT player. And I think trying these things out and learning them makes me think more like...