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Do you think it's more the setting of the matches (club vs tournament) or just playing unfamiliar players? For example, I tend to do very poorly against unfamiliar player, and it doesn't really matter if it's in a tournament or club or practice setting. I have some ideas on why that is. For...

So my training partner recorded a few points of my match earlier this week against this 21-2200 player. Last time I played against him he was using SP on his BH, and I did alright. He's now using some sort of medium pips that act kind of like anti. Every ball coming back had was kinda dead and I...

Right, the oldest one feels very different and has numbers on the handle. Here's my 2014 HL5.

So I finally made the full time switch to the Q968 on Monday, had a practice session that day, and felt comfortable with the FH and BH loops. Played in league today in table 1, did about as well as can be expected with a new setup. So the good part is that while I knew the FH drive was gonna...

Interesting! A clubmates brought a chopping setup the other day and I tried chopping with it and I found the same thing! I tried chopping up and down, or back to front, and the ball would either flow very high or go out, but once I started chopping with a bit more of a left to right motion (BH...

A little too soft IMO. The W968 is a fairly hard blade to activate, and ideally you don't want rubbers that activate before the blade. D09c also activates a bit early, but a better match than D05. H3 is really the best match.

How new are we talking about? I have a 2014 HL5 that plays almost like an all wood blade. Switching to the 2022 W968 a couple years ago was actually harder than switching from the YSE to the old HL5, and I think even a bit harder than switching from the W968 to the Viscaria. I think in the...

Doesn't seem to be totally cut, thr first character seems to still be legible. If you take a really close up macro shot of the name section I think I can figure out at least the last name of the player.

Like I said, anything beyond the official W968 is a matter of faith. There is no way for anyone to prove any special version is as special as advertised. That goes for any seller anywhere.

The box is that of Golden Slam 968, but the actual blade it's impossible to know. Prott has legit DHS products, including W968s, but whether it's some sort of special players' version or XXX's personal blade it's impossible to know and just a matter of pure faith for us normies.

Haha, believe in yourself! They're no different than soft blocks, and I think you can loop them all day long. Speaking of which, pros don't usually soft block, and they try really, really hard not be farther from the table than they need to. That's why you see far more of the open to closed...

Pros do it all the time, see Ovtcharov attempt one at the 0:40 mark here (hard to time mark as I'm on the phone). He's too far from the table and the ball was low, hence the closed to open attempt. For the LP player, I noticed that you push only to stay in the rally and not to set up your...

Yes, some movement is allowing you to apply pressure on a far higher percentage of shots, not allowing him to use his big swing on your weaker returns. As for the racket angle thing, your long backswing and the closed to open thing are related. You use a more closed to open action when the...

Also, you'll notice that he's always standing beside the table far further up than say LSD whose body is mostly behind the table when he serves pendulum. This way when he rotates the body the ball is still to his side rather than in front of him. See the start of the LSD vs. WCQ game for this...

For me at least it depends on whether the service motion is more or less back-to-front. A more back-to-front service motion benefits more from a backwards toss, as it adds extra spin due to 1) the extra relative motion of the ball to the racket as the ball moves back while the racket moves...

Damn, WCQ beat LSD like he's Harimoto.

The coach is right, and in game situations it's not really your choice. If you're close to the table and the ball is high then you can't wait until it falls. Conversely if you're far from the table then it'd be tough to catch it at the high point. Your choice is more about what distance you play...

Well, not surprising, because you got better! That point at 3:23 where you took 2 steps to get into the optimal position on your BH side for a FH finishing shot, that's a thing of beauty! You're getting low to loop those backspins while he's still standing up straight, contributing to his far...

LSD seems to take advice pretty well. In the last timeout WH told him to be resolute in service receives, and that LYJ has been aggressive in receives, going at his middle, so if it's not comfortable to counterloop then just "bump" it back (he said 磕, which is interesting as it's not the word...

Must be a brave soul to vote for LYJ considering who he's playing against next lol.