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women are playing now - 1-1 Chen Meng vs. Ding Ning. I missed the men's matches. http://www.indosports.tv/sports/cctv-5-live-streaming/

Not necessarily true. The way to think about it is that you need to get used to playing anti. Usually, I like to think of players who do not use inverted or spinny short pips on their backhand as coming in "levels". I have about 3 levels, and the truth is that as you get better, a player at...

I've had few problems pushing down again and making the rubber stick. Not sure why (I know the stickiness of VarioClean in particular is helpful), and I do agree that WBG is generally not as easy to use as rubber cement, but that's not defined or affected my failure rate. I didn't find any...

chucky, That is an excellent cut. Cutting better than that won't help your table tennis one bit.

FZD wins 3-1 and is the first qualifier for Suzhou.

Ma Long is about to lose...

Can you see the match? What is the score?

The link stopped working :(...

11-9, game 1, ML.

Yes, the anti will either kill the spin or let the spin pass through so you either have a backspin ball or a no-spin ball. You have to figure out which according to your stroke and fix appropriately. Either ball will go into the net if you use a closed paddle like you are looping regular/heavy...

When are ML and FZD playing?

My tip for cutting rubbers neatly is simple - DON'T. Short cuts with any scissors are more than good enough and most modern rubbers shrink anyway.

Zhang Jike Lost to Liang Jingkun 3-1

Yes, Big Dipper might not be fast to people who use heavily boosted stuff, but for me, when loop driving, I felt good spin. Sponge hardness does make a difference - the 40 deg is not quite as wild as the 38 deg - I prefer the latter. It is hype but it might suit some people. Definitely suited me.

The Wakaba is a low quality premade blade so don't confuse it with an ALL+/OFF- blade. My final advice is that you are going to play for fun - buy what you enjoy playing with. Do know that if you ever want to get good coaching, you may have some trouble learning good strokes with a faster...

May have retired, but more likely encouraged to move on and wanted to do so as well.

Well, all I can say is that your situation does not change the advice we have given you. The only difference is that I can understand your skepticism, but that you need to understand that table tennis is less about equipment and more about skill. If you give a better player bad equipment and a...

Ah, this post helped me understand you much better. I am from a country like that originally. And I see where your posts are coming from in general now.

Not at all - you still have a lot to learn about your 2nd language and table tennis. And you are trying to learn, unfortunately, not as quickly as some would like, but you are doing well.

Oh, I will. And when I come back, English will still be your second language!:cool: