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I have a bad habit of thinking too much about technique between points or generally just being angry or happy with whatever just happened, and not analysing in a way that will help me going forward. I want to improve on this but there's so many things happening in a match that one could possibly...

I'm making some tweaks to my backhand topspin and am wondering something about the shoulder. Generally the advice for BH topspin (as well as most other shots) is to keep the shoulder and upper body relaxed during the stroke, but I've been playing around a bit with the shoulder blades and was...

In an interview after WTTC houston Timo spoke about how his game isn't the modern style, and references trying to adapt to this modern style: What do people here understand by this term; what constitutes the modern style of table tennis?

Been watching the China National Games and Chinese Super League (with surprisingly little discussion of either on this site??) and Ma Long has started to play chop blocks way more regularly than in the past or compared to other players, especially this amazing-looking windscreen-wiper style...

Looking for peoples opinions here. Partially due to me currently trying to improve my backhand topspin stroke and looking for inspiration. I feel like i often see fan zhendong and harimoto mentioned in this type of conversation, but even though they're undeniably effective I personally don't...

Hey, Curious to hear what if anything goes through other people's heads as they return serves with sidespin on them (not so interested in top/no/underspin as it's more straightforward once you've read it, to me). When first encountering very sidespinny serves , I would very consciously have to...

As well as it being maybe the most effective in the sport, there's something about it that just makes it look cooler than all others to me and I'm trying to put my finger on what.. Is it how late he takes them? Is his arm even looser or just longer than other chinese FHs? Does he use more wrist...

Hi, What shape of blade is required/recommended to play RPB? I'm pretty sure this has an obvious answer but I havent managed to find it online, so any advice would be appreciated. I see that there is such thing as a penhold blade, but I haven't been able to figure out if these are just for...