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I was wondering about this? At the pro level a lot of styles have gone exctinct like Jpen, one sided penholder, defense only with no real counter attack. And even among two winged shake hand loopers certain styles are getting rarer for example kreanga style far away from table loopers who take...

Is he playing more of an European style forehand? It seems his arm is pretty bent and not straight like classic Chinese forehand (ma long, wang liqin). Do you think this is a new trend in Chinese table tennis?

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In case somebody watches it, German TV is showing wheelchair table tennis

I just recently found out that you can wash the little sponges when using water based glue (before it has dried of course). Are you doing that or are you just using a new one every time?

I thought about this. The illegal serve debate never really ends and for umpires that is very hard to judge. Wouldn't mandatory BH serves resolve that issue? With BH serve it is very hard to block vision at contact and it would be much easier to judge for umpires. Sure it would require some re...

I recently got an idea on how to practice serve receive and read spin. You need two basketballs or medicine balls, one is put on the servers side and one is put on the receivers table. I learned you always need to touch the same side of the ball as the receiver does, so when the "server"...

Which handle shape for cpen do you prefer? There isn't much talk about penhold handle shapes other than cpen and jpen but I think there are different shapes for cpen too. Some grips are more round, Others are more square and others more flat and wide. Are there advantages for each handle...

Would this be a good mindset to improve? There is a famous tennis book by Brad Gilbert called winning ugly which is about some strategies to mentally and tactically beat a slightly better opponent. I wonder if the opposite mindset would be good for a player who is trying to advance. Instead of...

The usual recommendation is that you transfer the weight from the right foot to the left during forehand topspin and in many cases top players are doing that but you sometimes see them lifting the left knee during the hit and landing on the left foot only after contact. For example you see it...

I often play in a colder venue around 10-12 degree celsius (50F) in the winter. Would it make sense to use a softer rubber than usual there as the cold makes the rubber feel harder? And vice versa should you use a harder rubber/sponge when you play above 30 degrees celsius (like 86F or so)? Or...

Does anyone especially one who speaks Korean what this guy here means? You the bat angle turn more closed during a loop stroke? Is this good instruction? https://youtube.com/shorts/CbVjElJqp48?feature=share

I found out my RPB works better when my blade is slightly more open (i almost exclusively play RPB except for push, so also for block and "flat hit" albeit the latter rarely happens). For that I have twisted my hand on the handle slightly counter clockwise (I'm a lefty) so bat is more open on...

I noticed that if I try to loop often it goes low over the net and sometimes even hits the top of the net. Obviously my technique isn't great so I wonder what you can do to make your loop arc higher. And is it even good to hit a higher arcing loop? It seems like pros often nowadays hit very low...

For a righty a pretty simple attack pattern is to hit inside out into the backhand of the opponent and pin him there until you can finish down the line. But as a lefty I'm a bit unsure what to do in some situations. Sure if he hits into my forehand I can hit cross court into his BH but what...

Which serve do you prefer to create "outside" side spin? You can use a reverse pendulum or a hook serve to create this spin, so what are the advantages of each? When I still play SH I had a decent (for my low level obviously) reverse pendulum serve but since I went to penhold I don't like it...

I was playing with a friend recently in a public table tennis facility and tables there are rather close next to each other (maybe 3-4 meters of space between tables). Then just for fun we played diagonally across two tables from my side of the table to the opposing side of the other table...

I have always wondered about that. I never have played pips but basically you can't hit any topspin with it and basically just flat smash the ball, right? So why aren't players like mima ito or Mathias falck twiddling to their inverted side to for example loop a deep underspin push? If they...

For those of you who follow tennis have you ever thought of that? Fan Zhendong= djokovic Aggressive and very strong of both wings with no weaknesses and extreme consistency and few errors, complete player equally strong of both wings Xu xin=nadal Extreme footspeed and super spinny forehand...

I found something out for my forehand loop so it works much better now so I thought I would like to share with you. As I'm neither a coach nor a really good player I could be totally wrong though so I'm asking for your opinion. What I did was having the motion totally in the so called...