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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...

Problem: over the years, I've hit lots of ball on the edge of my racket. This usually happens when the ball jumps out at me with topspin and I try to forehand loop it (but I've had it happen before even when it's not spinny. sometimes happens long backspin pushes to my backhand). I'm just...

Science is built upon repeatable results. Whatever I say here is subjective, and players should always try things out for themselves and communicate their results with others. Everyone should know about the scientific method. It's grown to be a little bit more than the old 7-step method, so...

As some of you know, I qualified for NCTTA nationals a month ago, and the NCTTA National Championships start on Friday. Since there isn't much time left, I don't think I can make drastic changes and improvements, but I hope that the community here can give me some advice that can tweak and...

I made a calculator based on the your probability of winning a point. Obviously, table tennis is not that simple, but it's a fun toy to mess around with. You can save it and use it for yourself, but for now, I made it so that anyone can edit it (hopefully, none of you mess it up). You only need...

I am referring to this page: https://www.teamusa.org/usa-table-tennis/ratings/ratings-stats-by-ttspin I remember a page that used to work. Does anyone know what happened to it? Is anyone working on it? EDIT: here i am, hoping that Matt Hetherington sees this or something.

I'm not an equipment expert at all. I feel like I'm asking an extremely common sense question, but for softer rubbers, you generate spin mainly by using the sponge? (as opposed to closing your racket more to spin the top of the ball for tacky rubbers) I heard this while going through...

Just want to talk about my experience: A while back, I wanted to try out backhand lobbing a little. I've never really lobbed much, since I'm usually attacking, and so I figured that a lob is probably like a long-distance block (I wasn't going for high lobs). And it worked out. The motion was a...

So a lot of nets have a string that goes through the top of the net to keep the net tight. Unfortunately, one end of the string on one of the nets in my university is inside the middle of the net, making it very difficult, if not impossible to pull out. Do you guys have any advice on what to do?

A friend of mine is working on a statistics project, and needs people with a USATT rating to fill out her survey for data. She needs at least thirty people to fill out her survey. Please take the time to answer her survey. She will appreciate it very much. Thanks ahead of time for helping out...

I have an argumentative research paper assignment that I would like to do on Table Tennis. I was thinking about writing about why table tennis in America isn't very popular in America and what can be done to fix that. The only problem is that I don't really know what table tennis is like in...

Xu shao fa himself came to Robert's club in Flushing. He gave out some prototype large balls. and I hate them. Here's the ball in comparison to the normal poly Xushaofa ball. I hope ITTF doesn't make balls bigger.

Can we make a collection of these? Specifically, pro players where we can actually see how they are serving clearly. I've look at a few older threads about serves, but the videos no longer exist for some reason. I'll start off with two. Guang Qing Feng vs Zhang Kai Pretty much everywhere in...

these people are too stubborn. my older sister (Joanna Song) plays with anti spin and holds the paddle wrong (half seemiller, half shakehand), and is basically a blocker/smasher. She's been around the same level (1600~) for years. I keep telling her to change to a normal setup, or at least long...

That's kind of how I play... and I LOVE IT! I've been told that I'm a flashy player. I play super aggressively. As of right now, I'd be a power looper. I know firsthand the detriments of this kind of play style. I would look back on the games I've play and see a 2 giant themes. 1. The...

A Quick survey for table tennis players Hello! A fellow ping pong player and friend of mine needs some information on the players of the table tennis community. This is for his AP Statistics project. It just asks how active you are, age, etc. By the way, if you don't live in the United...

Should I serve safely or try to serve a surprise to win deuce game? Story time: Well, yesterday, I was playing against a 2389 guy named Ahmed Elmallah in under 2400 in the round robin. The game was 2-2 and I was winning 17-16 and it was my serve. I'm left handed, and he's right handed. Now...

I'm referring the USATT ratings. If you want to extend this to other countries, I'm asking for the difference between people who have solid fundamentals and professionals. The obvious 400 point difference means better everything obviously. So better footwork, attacks, and services are kind of...