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If you can't get good coaching, as long as you have lots of balls, there is always multiball.

Der Echte, Your original post rambles a bit and is confusing so I am unsure if I fully got it. For me, I find most reviews, even that of tttdaily, to be fairly uninformative with the important exception of the moments when they compare the behavior of the rubber to a rubber that I have played...

Once you play this game at a club, you will be pretty much forced to get coaching unless you have a friend who plays pretty well and is willing to coach you for free. No one who plays this game likes to lose that much, and that is all you will be doing unless you get coaching.

IF you are getting coaching, it is always best to get whatever your coach recommends, or at least APPROVES of, since he is the one going to be responsible for your results.

Love your confidence in TareqPhoto's game and potential.

This is true, but solid impact to the degree I do it now started with Big Dipper - before that, I was a brush looper to the T with Tenergy 05, but mostly drove the ball flat. Big Dipper just encouraged me to rip the ball with spin, which in many cases was even better. Westchester is not my...

That's the video Der_Echte was referring to.

Der_Echte, We 100% agree - as I argued with a famous intellectual table tennis forummer who shall remain nameless for now on the other forum, the feedback/dwell of the blade is more important than the blade speed for me and while there is a good correlation between speed and dwell, sometimes...

I love this thread. Der Echte, I hear your opinion on the need for coaching. However, I disagree with your choice of example. IMO, kids can use anything and their feel and lack of power enables them to get dip with equipment that is too fast for adults. As for adults, I strongly disagree...

One of the tricks I learned from working with Brett Clarke and practicing by myself is that the pull up trick is largely unnecessary. Just impacting the ball by hitting it flat on the back/bottom and forward will impart light topspin on the ball. Yes, you won't get that humongous pop-up vs the...

Yeah, take a similar mental approach to every point. IMO, it's even more important when you have a big lead. Some people relax too much when they are up 10-6 and have their two serves. They forget that if it gets to 10-8, their opponents gets two serves. As I've gotten better, I've realized...

All the blades are great. Get the most expensive one if you want that as it will have the best resell value and will turn heads in your club. Again, nothing we tell you will change your mind.

Buy anything you want. You won't use it forever and you will learn from it. Usually, I advise people to buy something in ALL+ to OFF- all wood as their first blade, but it doesn't matter- they seem to know what they want and buy an OFF or OFF+ blade with very fast rubbers. So the correct...

Yes. For me though, the fake action ball always looks funny. The contrast ball (light vs. heavy) is harder but then I have to study racket contact point. The good thing about service return is that, like everything in table tennis, as one gets better, some things become unconscious and this...

Learn to produce different spins with your serve and watch the ball path as the ball goes through the table. It helped me. The other thing is that if a fast racket motion produces a ball that comes short, that ball is loaded with spin. After all, if that fast motion didn't produce a fast...

How many lessons have you received from your coach on how to serve? That might help make my point even clearer.

Sure you do.:cool:

I doubt you will find anything else quite like that specific to table tennis.

All wood is always good - just ask Samsonov ;).

It's probably been reviewed and suggested elsewhere, but Tahl Leibovitz's "Ping Pong for Fighters" is excellent as far as tips and mental approach go.