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Regarding playing differently, It took me 25 years of playing before I learnt to loop, I do not want to unlearn loop and go back to a flat slapping style.
Carl even the mid pips, you try and hit flat like you should do with them and the ball just falls off them goes in the net more. Even with pips players use the grip.
Playing in humid conditions is like living in a primordial jungle, you either adapt or die.
I have ended several training sessions this sommer due to much humidity so it makes it unplayable. A lot of shots go in the net or on my own side. Make my technique and confidence worse. Will start bringing a bath towel, several shirts so I can change after one hour, using bandana and two towel wrist things. Any more suggestions?
MOG try white board crayon on the pimples.it is much worse for the pimples when humid than the inverted since the ball always go down a bit on the pimple rubber even in good conditions due to less grip than inverted. When humid the ball moves to much on the pimples rubber which make it suck. Crayon dust helps a bit to make the rubber playable.
No, i am serious. Try it. Makes a difference. Know others that do this aswell. Can imagine that Falck have done this since it was his old Coach that told me to Do it.
I think the dust from the crayon is suppose to collect the moisture from the humidty. The trouble short pimple players get is that the ball sinks to much on the rubber. But middle pimple players proably want more effect since they are using middle pimples so Do not know If it is such a big problem for them? More humidty, less grip and more effect. But If you Feel the ball sinka to much on the rubber i think it can help.
Do not make the pimples better. Just not As useless in to humid conditions.
Ahaa maybe you meant because i will try to bring so much stuff to counter the humudity? Feel like i really need to do something. Sometimes it is only possible to train for one hour before the ball is wet alot of the times. Not fun to do the correct stroke and still hit my own side. I have noticed that it is often i and my training partner that have the biggest problem. Think it is due to me dripping alot of sweat everywhere.
So will try those things that i mentioned. Otherwise it is better to only train for one hour and stop and do something else. Pretty certain i become a worse player if i keep playing.
Our hall is in the same building as swimming pools and have not any real air condition so that probably have something to do with it. But I think if you have not have experienced any problem with humidity you have been lucky with the conditions or you need to train much harder so you start to sweat.
its probably against the rules though
Well considering I got hung, drawn and quartered for having a slightly dubious serve, I am not going to do this crayon thing and then get slaughtered again!!
** It also should be noted that, if you had not spent so much time on the forum complaining about other player's illegal serves and how much you hate illegal serves, I would not have bothered to point out that your serves are not within the rules either. I kind of feel like, if you are going to spend so much e-real-estate on illegal serves, yours should first be 100% completely above board.
1. My serves are fully legal now. I will continue to complain about others illegal serves!!
2. Watch ma lin playing waldner or any other top 10 pros from 90's when shielding was allowed and count how many serves actually get returned, it is ridiculous.
If it is so easy for everyone to return hidden serves why did they change the rules??
Everyone knows shielding serves makes it harder to return them.
Everyone know it is easier for some players to impart spin if they dont toss the ball, it is definitely easier to keep ball low.
And I have never on any thread ever said it was ok for me to drop my hand below table to serve, that is others putting words into my mouth or misunderstanding my comments.
You and others no damn well my hand dropping a little below the table on toss (whilst being illegal) is not the same as things as I have mentioned before on serving, especially when we all know players who deliberately serve illegally. It is just being being cocky and clever with words on a forum!!
I am not sure whether I have not fully explained myself or if you're grasp of the English language is weak or if my grasp of the English language is weak or both or even all three.
But what I say and what you and a certain forum member think I have said in the past is something completely different.
And it was still out of order for a forum member who has never met me and knows nothing about my philosophy on life or table tennis was allowed to call me a cheat on the forum, and was not asked to edit his post.
It is also out of order when I reported him calling me a cheat on the forum no one acknowledged my report.
Not even to say MOG don't be such a a baby!!