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So many people are criticizing each other's tips and hacks. Everyone should realize that each tip is a "hack" for a range of levels. And it even has nuance past that too. Serving long wide sidespin is a "hack" against newer players, but won't work once people learn about looping those hard as...

it's probably a step down in speed. i currently use gold arc 8 for my rpb. downgrade of speed for sure, coming from t05. but my blocking went through the roof, so i think it's worthwhile. i'll just use muscles if i want to do backhand harder.

"only a sith deals in absolutes" I hope I can put this contention between JJ and blahness to rest. But first, PhilT, good job on your looping! Your latest looping videos looks much more "normal" now. I hope to see some new match videos. I suspect that you face a whole new set of problems there...

You are correct. You don't need to pivot so much these days, especially as your backhand gets better and better. However, at lower levels, you can easily do big damage by playing forehands into the opponent's forehand, which is often more applicable and easier to learn. If your forehand is...

You have to play forcing moves, AKA shots that basically force out a certain predictable response(s). A simple example is just looping really hard. If they are close to the table, they are generally forced to block. Another example would be serving very low, short backspin. They are generally...

I briefly looked this OP's posts. I don't see a single video of him playing. Please post a video. If you don't, we can only guess and give generic advice. It's much better to get advice that specific to you, but we cannot do that without information about how you play. Maybe we can find a big...

Funny that you mention that last sentence, because that same person was getting coaching from a more traditional coach and was getting nowhere and instantly felt improvement when I came in. Another older gentleman, Alex Zubatov, who was a 2000 long pips blocker, had a similar experience with me...

I theorize that his coach probably thought he would be more talented with pips rather than something not clicking. I don't know how you came that accusation there. I only started really coaching half a year ago, so none from beginner to 2000, but I have 1 man in his 40s that went from basement...

Most of the people I coach are adults, but I have always succeeded in making things click for my students (as long as they believed me), whether they be in their 20s, 40s, or 70s. They'll have some problem and the first thing I have to do is change their mindset and challenge their...

To the people who claim to be doing over 100k loops and still not getting it, your coach is either extremely bad at diagnosing and troubleshooting, or if you are self-coaching, you are very bad diagnosing and troubleshooting. The people who tend to practice a lot and get nowhere tend to...

Judging by what Carl said, you probably don't practice game points and don't have a plan for the point either. Practice some common game points where you should loop the ball. A common point that almost everyone sees is, you serve, they push to the middle, you forehand loop. Do this 1000...

I can confirm, coaching makes table tennis fun again. You troubleshoot tt problems and you get to live vicariously through your student. If you don't coach, the other option is to search for areas to improve and experiment in. You will enjoy a sense of progression through that.

Aside from the fact that you were outclassed, there are a couple of things you can do or learn how to do. On your serve, the "easiest" thing to do is to serve short topspin, preferably to the forehand. I would say 90% of players at 2000 are just terrible at this. Also, it will eliminate the...

The problem came back, but I fixed it again. It was misreading of the impact. A lot of the time, the ball is coming faster, higher, and/or deeper than usual, and if i don't notice that, the racket edge ball is going to be happening. Now, I focus a lot more on where the ball will be, and I can...

As a looper waiting for a looping opportunity, it is very typical to be late on short pushes against other short pushes. If they are popping up, it's because of other factors, like the vertical direction of his push and racket angles, etc. Here is Ma Long and FZD taking turns short pushing...

You are making an assumption and leaving some things out. The first thing that you are assuming is that you have to brush the ball a lot. However, this isn't true. If you just want to countertopspin, you don't have to do some kind of SUPER BRUSH type of shot. A loop drive will do fine. I think...

Similar to how chess has websites like https://www.openingtree.com/ and other chess databases. I would love to see an analysis on how specific players like to start the point, whether they are the server or receiver, along with popular responses in the following third ball, fourth ball, and so...

I don't know which player you are in the video, so I'll comment on both It looks like red can just push blue's serves to the extreme angle, wide to backhand. Instead, red commonly pushed half long to the middle, which blue can loop. Blue is actually receiving red's serves quite well. Blue just...

Most illegal services commonly go out of view behind a players shoulder or body. A rule stating "the front of the server's shirt must be visible to the receiver" should fix the most common illegal serves. It should be also very easy for the umpire to enforce, since they just have to look at...

The technique looks fine. It just looks to me that you aren't good enough at adjusting your technique to the ball. Look at the ball more carefully and judge how much you actually need to lift the ball and judge whether you need to change your racket angle, and adjust your technique accordingly...