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You assume you will progress more effectively than potentially any person who has ever lived just because you progressed to an alright amateur level in a relatively fast time. Not even a high level, just a level where adults tend to plateau if they have some structured practice and have been...

Why do you think you're so special that you can start from just a little bit below some of the most elite competition in the world? You're acting like the 3rd division is some kind of D on a report card. A lot of the players there are better than the best players in some countries.

The answer is none. There don't exist any clubs that would scout you and allow you to play in them. If you do make it from 1900 to 2700 in 5 years, you should really start thinking about the grandslam and making history at the world stage, easily beating the Chinese top men's players instead.

You "could"? The kind of players playing in MLTT are sometimes the best in their country. Some of them have been top 10 in the world ranks. Why do you think it's some kind of thing to settle for if you don't manage to do the impossible? What is your world rank? Are you in the top 1000 even? Are...

Since I didn't make any equipment changes between 2016 and 2018, and none between 2023 and 2026, I bought a clearance sale sheet of Vega Europe DF for my backhand to use for the rest of the year. My current rubbers have been oxidizing for a while anyway so they will probably need changing at...

Shouldn't you be focusing on what happens next month, not in 5 years? Nothing is certain in sports. Don't you have a trainer who has been part of a national team guiding you?

I think you need to understand that plenty of people start at 5 years old with more training and better resources and still might not be that level by that age. The average seems to be 10-15 years of practice from childhood to be able to reach a pro level ASAP, and that's just a pro level, not...

I will say that 2100 in a couple years is decent and is a real achievement even with the coaching. With that in mind, many players are playing at a 2400~ level and younger than 13. It's probably going to be super tough to get into Bundesliga, maybe impossible, but I'd like to see it either way.

Sounds like it's doable. You should probably link your YouTube, it's not discoverable.

You're 2100 after a year and a half? Are you being professionally trained full-time?

It's a good idea to ignore anything an LLM will produce, because they mostly just skim forums and reddit, the most uninformed sources possible. What it produced is just the zeitgeist in wherever it looked. It doesn't mean anything.

I don't like it too rounded, so I think I'll stick to the hand. I do it a little, then play with it, see how it feels, adjust it a bit later. If I take a dremel to it, there won't be any wing left. Probably good if you're gonna do 30 and know what you want.

Maybe not the sexiest EJ purchase, but I finally got some sandpaper to sand my wings and handle with. Out of any of the mods you could possibly make to a racket, this is probably the most cost-effective permanent one. I used 400 grit, but almost anything will do honestly. I lightly sand both...

That's a good point honestly, most people are probably conceptually more familiar with how cars work than how table tennis works. I do think the technology aspect is still important. I don't really think true "slow rubbers" exist. Honestly most things with an ITTF logo and a brand to them can...

I looked at Mark V HPS as a backhand rubber to serve as a step up before going to a tensor, mainly because it's dramatically cheaper than something like R7 or Vega. Do you think that's true or is it more like a fast old style rubber?

2018 would be the last time, but we played with cell ball mostly even so late as they were more durable, cheaper and still available locally. The early plastic ball were woeful IIRC. I still don't like the new ones personally but it is what it is. I found it a bit easier now when I came back to...

When I was playing around your level, I remember only really developing things after working on being relaxed and spinning the ball more. There's only so far you can really get hitting flat and tense. If you want to develop big shots, learn to loop heavy backspin feed. I would guess that right...

It's easier to generate force in an absolute sense, simply due to the huge performance difference; but easier to handle? Not even close. The lateral dropoff slope on a slick like that is multiple times that of a road tire, same with the thermal slopes. The peaks are also narrower. It's also a...

I tried to make a graph but it's probably not understandable. You understand my point, though. You can produce a similar performance with a rubber costing less than half the cost of the other one just by trying harder. If you put Max Verstappen into a roadcar on eco tires, he's not going to...

I'm more meaning that if you take a person off the street and put them on a skidpad, all they really need to do to get very close to a car's objective performance limit is to turn the wheel to the rough correct angle and hold a bit of throttle. I've coached complete beginners to do it...