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With Xu Xin, I think the Chinese withdrew him to give Fan more international experience. They have done this kind of thing a lot in the past - there are strong rumors that ZJK has always wanted to play every World Cup he was eligible for as WTTC Champ.

Germans seem to be pretty sore about Kallberg getting the wildcard over Timo Boll. Just saying.

It's like learning to play short pips or long pips - you tell people all these things but you can't really do it or understand it until you can do it repeatedly. If I understood it the way you do, I would serve the way you do. You've always talked about Rich's hand pressure - we never...

The Dark Side is a powerful force... sometimes, you just have to yield to it...

Exactly - that lets you know that you made spin contact even if you didn't make the shot. Now while I am not looping against a heavy backspin ball (the balls I am looping are closer to no-spin), here is a video I made to help SchemeSC on another site think about putting spin on the ball rather...

Watching the ball is to use your eyes to track the ball when tossed. Watching the racket is to keep your focus on the racket even when the ball is tossed upwards and shifting to the ball upon impact. Even when someone is doing deceptive stuff with the racket, the most important thing is to...

You again have failed to define what you mean by "matching the spin". Define "matching the spin" in any response you want to make going forward. Then, we will use your definition to interpret your response. On why you are clearly killing the spin, let's try again - you may not realize that...

I actually disagree on watching the ball - I think watching the ball is actually a waste of time until after it is struck. And if you only watch the ball, you will be unable to take the ball early when the spin is obvious. Start by watching the racket because at some point the ball is going to...

Most people grip their rackets too tightly anyways. In general, the thing is that accelerating the racket with the wrist tends to force that grip pressure change anyways or the racket wobbles too much in your hand. Swinging at a more even pace doesn't wobble the racket as much. On your...

I've always considered that guy the person that Pnatchwey and AgentHex wished they were.

I think I do that naturally because if you practice serving a lot, it comes to you as you look for ways of generating more spin, but the more interesting part for me is the effect of *not doing it* and being able to control that effect. And to know the situations where you run the risk of your...

Pretty interesting - will have to test that theory out on a sheet of T25 at some point in the future but not on my own dime. I haven't used T25 since I developed more serious looping ability.

The main point was simple. If you grip the racket relatively tight and accelerate with wrist snap, you get spin. But if you loosen your grip and accelerate into the ball less, the difference in spin production is significant if you use the same stroke and can get serious spin with your spin...

If Der_Echte is willing, we can do something for 10-15 mins or so when I see him next. He just runs through his serves and his pushing technique and I am sure we could get him to dummy loop if necessary. I could probably do the pushing and the dummy looping but the serves are way beyond me...

Everything I write here is my relatively but not so humble opinion of course :p Thanks - I lost almost all my other matches so it's not going to really go up, but for me, that was besides the point. Trust me, when you have lost to someone like DeWitt as often as I have, one win is plenty. He...

Here is the playlist - Youtube can be very flaky when you associate a match to a playlist when uploading so it took some time to get all the videos together: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1xHYZmEaJtSNEzDr3s4QfdQD3_B6ICvu May do an edit someday if we want to advertise but right now...

I always tried to understand the link between grip pressure and racket acceleration as inputs and ball quality as outputs and you gave me stuff to think about. I wish I had taped it because it would have been pretty good to study. When I read everyone rambling (HAHAHA) now and put your voices...

Here is the legendary match - I make a comeback in every game from games 3-5. I've posted all the videos on youtube for Saturday but I haven't labelled them all yet.

Not sure how long you have been following this whole rigmarole from Pnatchwey which dates back to mytabletennis.net (where he is now banned), but Pnatchwey likes to cite the argument that dwell time is so short that people cannot change it during the shot (likely very true based on knowledge...

I had DeWitt down 1-2 games, 2-5 4th set at Westchester in January (or December) before collapsing after a ball busting point. This win at least lets me close the chapter on that loss. And I think BH Man's demonstration of a few things helped me appreciate DeWitt's game better and even...