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Why am I supposed to love this thread yet I am careful about liking it?

The beauty of starting older is that you can look forward to improving for the rest of your life and you will learn a lot in a technical sport like this. Those who trained in their youth often get to levels that they don't see themselves going back to as they get older. Be sure to work with...

Is he already in LA? Is he sick? These short responses make no sense.

You mean P3, P5 and P7 and Tenzone and Tenzone SF weren't tensors?

Well, with no prior notifications and no clear prime movers behind the site, it's getting harder for me to trust the site as much as it is my main home.

Yes, the rubber felt harder. I play with relatively hard stuff with soft topsheet (and BD has soft topsheet), but I need something that lets me manipulate the ball. Hard stuff requires too hard a swing to get things moving sometimes and I don't swing hard enough for the 39 or 40 degree...

With MyTT down again, I expect more posters and lurkers to make the transition.

Not an equipment expert per se. I did use Big Dipper but stopped because I didn't like the inconsistent quality control. Also Big Dipper's softest is 38 deg. I haven't used any of the others. But yes, Big Dipper was very good for me on both FH and BH. If they made the QC consistent, I would...

My coach says something similar about his students. He mocks them and says that because they don't play any sports that have them in close proximity to the opponent that gives them contact, even basketball or soccer, they overestimate the combat level of table tennis.

Well, they just said that they were not going to rebid on the contract to make and market NBA jerseys. That's a profitable contract so it just means they knew that they didn't have the money to afford the bidding war that would take place.

It depends - either someone buys the product line from ESN, or the company comes back under a new name, or ESN makes the rubber for someone else.

Everything made by Adidas TT will show up as another brand within a year or two. Big deal.

BTW, one of the sad things about TT coaching is that some coaches are willing to take your money while not improving your game. In PNUT's case, that is probably a good thing. As they say, a PNUT and his money are soon parted. I guess that is what happens when PNUT takes lessons from some...

Smart guy - you want me to learn it so I can reteach it... I got news for you - if I learn that, I ain't teaching nobody... so there! :mad: :p:p:p:p:p

UpsideDownCarl, Seeing the spin on the ball is in part youth at work, and it is one of those abilities that players who started as children tend to have and do not know how they acquired it. Yes, we do get better at it as we play more, but despite all the video I have filmed and watched of my...

Have you had formal coaching? The thing is that TT, as much as it has a theory and a science to it, is a sport of action/practice. I was at a tournament yesterday where a very experienced 1800 rated short pips backhand blocker asked me how to play long pips. I will tell you what I told him...

90% is too kind.

Shiro, What is your USATT rating and what is the rating of the pushblocker? I am curious because sometimes, we make these issues about equipment when they are actually about the players. If a rated - 1300 player wanted to learn how to play against short pips, I wouldn't send him to get killed...

Yeah. Things like this explains why PNut thinks he is looping when he isn't.

To be fair, at that level, their spins are faster than my drives.