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Russia sees NATO as such a threat that they emptied their western border and reinforced the eastern one during the war. Makes you think.

I'm not in either of those. :) But yeah, you might be right. a bit too low estimate. One issue I have with these ratings is that a bunch of people just keep improving like crazy and aren't probably at their real level. One of my practice partners who is almost 1100 right now was 950~ about 4...

I agree that you shouldn't really care about or compare ratings when improving, because you just need to beat the guy in front of you at the end of the day. But, the ratings are what they are. Generally they're pretty representative of what you can expect from someone's performance if the...

It's a bit of a mess here. Our 1100 and 1400 players can sometimes compete neck to neck and they will have a 50% WR against eachother. I think the real difference is that the 1400 player is much better against "weird players" in actual tournament and doesn't lose to them, while the 1100 player...

That is what I believe as well. 11-0 quite easily, no contest whatsoever. I had a chance to play with players like that one time, but they found a more appropriate partner for me, so I didn't get the chance to get gutted and hung to dry. :) I would have wanted to try it, though. If I had to...

I checked some of my training partners' ratings, and they're 1075, 1107. I can't find the rating of one of them, but he plays in the same grade as those players, so it's probably similar. I would say he is slightly better than those two. I have never managed to beat these players, but it's not...

Lol, yeah, right. The 1700 RC players around me would take a 2000 USATT player for a ride. Most of them have been coached since they were kids and they train 20h~ a week. To me it looks a lot more like 2300-2400 because the average shot quality is higher than anything you ever see at 2000 USATT...

I don't know about that, but I do feel like I'm 10 tons heavier than a decade ago, that's for sure.

You just can't beat good-old basic Seamoon. With Aliexpress coupons and coins you can get it for ridiculous prices sometimes. I bought a 60ml bottle for under 5usd equivalent a while ago.

@dingyibvs Yeah, fair. You can still have some success even with very imperfect skills. They just need to be better than the skills you are making your opponent use, and then with some luck, you should win. :) It's a simple principle but I forget it sometimes. Often I will push super heavy...

Fair. I feel like at my level especially, a tight half-long push with heavy spin is more effective than a little bit too high, not so heavy short push. :) EDIT: Reason being most players who are not in the higher divisions will just loop it into the side of the table or off the table, or push...

Half-high, not half-long.

Wow, great. That's about as much as I play so I might have similar results. What about the sponge? Has it weakened at all?

Sure, it's a fair point about it making all of your receives better in general. But I would argue that at any club level nobody can push short reliably, against anything. I've counted and it happens about 5% of the time. Even our National level players do not reliably do it against eachother...

I didn't say it's not useful practice. I just think it's misleading to say that something you successfully perform maybe once in a best of 5, but realistically not at all, is "critical" to your scoring in that match. The guy who does it twice would always win. :P

The % is about as bad as I'd expect to say that you can't actually do it vs an actual ball, but thanks for the video. Some of those towards the forehand* would probably be killer shots at club level. I would not say it's a "critical skill" above 1600; if it was, it'd be what wins points...

Yeah okay but I didn't ask for that. I asked for footage.

"Tackiness" is adhesion. In a performance sense it means the transverse load sensitivity curve is very nonlinear at low loads, being infinite mu at zero normal load, and decreasing at higher normal load. You don't need to sink the ball into the sponge as deeply because the immensely high mu...

No, they don't know it's topspin, that's the point. You can't actually do the skill if you can't ACTUALLY do it ie: push an actual real serve. I'm amazed you know better than I do what I am thinking. It didn't even occur to me that I think the push is a passive stroke, I'm gonna have to go back...

How many hours is longer than ESN hybrids? I don't really even look at anything that keeps performance for less than 100 hours.