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Glad it helped! A few years ago I'd also have some occasional back pain from practice, I think because I was twisting my waist and doing some odd things with my back a lot. I remember Nextlevel said I played a lot of "upper body" table tennis. He was pretty spot on. Funny how I've wandered...

Yeah you need to find that feeling. I think it's important to do things in the "right" order. This channel talks quite a bit about that, I've found it useful: There are many ways to do it, I just think pushing with the legs is the most efficient. Like I said, you could turn the waist and still...

From my experience, most players and coaches do think that using the legs is important. There's a lot of talk about weight transfer. But there seems to be some confusion as to how it's done and over emphasis that one should "use" the wrist, forearm etc. Maybe it's just a language problem and...

Some points from a recent practice match with Nicky, we had a really fun and tight match as usual 😀. Also gave me some ideas on what I want to work on

Right or wrong technique is kind of the wrong terminology like you say, which Carl on the forum has made a good point on. You need to adapt the technique to your body. However, if we look at the players at the top level, they all have very efficient technique and are doing very similar things...

And off we go to the next controversial topic.

I've run into a few, especially older swedes that understandably have held that belief, with those arguments, emotion and I guess nostalgia. But this has put the nail in the coffin where it's hardly even possible to use those arguments, this achievement is too visible and too great.

I agree with you, but I think when people say more forgiving they mean easier to put the ball on the table. Since many amateurs don't have that efficient technique and overuse the arm it is easier to play with euro rubbers. It mostly comes down to how well the tool (rubber) suits the skills and...

I'm not so sure even changing from tenergy to chinese rubber requires much technical change per se. What it does do though is put more pressure on you to improve and have more efficient technique. So, you might have been able to get away with that with tenergy and and if you switch to chinese...

This. It's easy to watch from the couch and be like he should've done this, should've done that. I'm fairly certain Harimoto and his coaches know better than anyone here and did the best they could at the time.Harimoto might as well have won the match, would anyone be saying that he should've...

Stroke-style probably has to do with who you were coached by and how your peers played. The stroke would probably be adapted if you played with a very hard rubber compared to a softer rubber. Longer swings with efficient technique means higher racket speed in comparison to a shorter swing...

Pro players are pretty adaptable as they have all the skills and core mechanics that are needed to play with any (inverted) rubber and this is evidently the case as many of them are now starting to move towards grippy/tacky and harder rubbers and are doing fine with them. If you have good...

Using MXP or other euro or softer rubbers than chinese rubbers tends to allow you to get away with slower swings, I'm guessing that's why your consistency improved a little. The swing could be slow and inconsistent if you rely mostly on the arm to do the work. If you use hard chinese rubber...

There are plenty of pro players and coaches that struggle to coach adults well. It's possible that they're successful with juniors and talents, which is usually the case. It's possible that they all know what they're talking about of course and usually there's something you can take from every...

I wasn't just talking about top 20 or even top 100 players in the world. More rubbers that are harder and tacky/semitacky are now being manufactured - like dignics 09c. As your technique improves you'll better be able to utilize those rubbers, all players with solid technique use them and those...

Tacky rubber by itself won't really do anything with your improvement. But they might be more useful for learning technique than very soft bouncy rubbers. Tacky rubbers often have harder sponges, therefore you need fast racket speed to be able to dig into the hard sponge. To reach high racket...

You're like the encyclopedia of TT and TT forums 😄

I get the feeling the vast majority agree that the player has control, it sounds ridiculous to think that equipment themselves have control and doesn't seem that's what people are thinking when they say that x rubber or blade has control. People use the word control quite ambiguously, which...

I forgot to mention I was referring to inverted grippy rubbers. Most recent modern rubbers are grippier, this is of course important. You don't want any risk of slippage. Another new thing seems to be softer top sheets with harder sponges. Regardless, I agree with BB that of course the player...

My guess is that players with faster swing speeds will have better control with harder setups, to get that swing speed and consistency they have to use the body efficiently. It's quite hard to get a fast swing, consistent by just using the arm. In my experience harder rubbers/sponges are less...