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Coming into this late, but has anyone given any reason for a redraw to have taken place in this event? It's one thing to say the rules allow it. There should still be a reason and that reason should not be secret. If it is secret, why is that necessary? The only thing that comes to mind is a...

there are rubbers that actually have sound in the name, only from tibhar i guess. i think there is an aurus sound and maybe some others. i'm thinking they are called that because they make the speed-gluey sound you are missing.

Maybe try Nittaku fastarc g1. It's an older generation tensor but really playable and good for both spin and speed. The best-selling rubber in Japan, supposedly. There is a review of it (and the whole fastarc series) on the tabletennis11.com website.

Saw those fingerspin serves close up at B75. No idea how he does it.

Back to the OP, are you flicking or pushing? Sounds like pushing. Is the ball going in the net? If so then it's side under. If you touch the lower left quarter of the ball (your left, assuming both players are righthanded) that will negate the spin and allow you to push back dead and short...

Are you consciously using your wrist in the stroke? If you deliberately try to use the m

What lightzy said. You are probably rolling your shoulder forward to try to cover the ball, and the shoulder forces your bat to flop over. Fix your shoulder and keep it still. Do some strokes using only your elbow. Do you still have the same problem?

In other news, the sky is still blue.

Cont'd -- interesting that you got stuck for a few months at the 1700 barrier. What do you think changed in your game to resume rapid progress to 1800 and on to 2000+? It also looked like during that time arpund 1700 you became more passive in matches and moved back from the table. Was that...

Really nice video, and impressive progress. I think it helped a lot that you are a good athlete, have nice feeling for the ball, have a good full-time club, and hadn't played enough to learn a lot of bad habits before starting seriously with a coach. And you must also have worked really hard...

Miwa Harimoto is quite fun to watch. She just won mini-cadets at the WJC China Open, many of the matches are on youtube.

Which long pimples are you using? Do they have sponge? I have never been an lp player, but I have played plenty of people who used lp they can attack with, and let me tell you it's nasty. There is also medium pimples, my least favorite surface to play against. Maybe your coach gave you a...

One thing you could try is a cork handle. Donic does that with the dotec blades, and Kevin from Am Hinoki made me a couple with cork handles. It's lovely.

The women's draw is loaded, everybody is there.

You may want to try the waldner senso carbon. I had two coming from the sweden classic (basically same as allplay). But the normal version has a wide base. Shince you mentioned that being a problem on another blade, you could go for the jo shape. It is super comfy in the hand, but of course...

It's interesting what she says to explore as adaptations, but I wonder how much of it applies to recreational players even up to quite a high level. It's obviously directed at kids with aspirations to play at national team level.

What I noticed when we first switched was balls that were clearly going off the end would seem almost to stop and drop like a stone onto the endline. This was pre-ABS. Here we all had many times of stopping play and putting out a hand to catch the ball and being dismayed when it landed. But...

I think almost everyone here has that problem, the only thing that changes is the number of practices outside the house per week. Baal has a formula for how many blades to own, (n = the # of blades that will cause your partner to leave you - 1). That probably solves for this as well, just...

What's the worst thing that could happen if you try playing defensive for a while?

However, buying it used at that price, if it doesn't work out for you, you can always re-sell at least the blade (let's say you try it long enough that rubbers are dead) for maybe $120. If it is too fast for you, trying this way could save you a lot of ej money later. Hard to go wrong getting...