Hi...im playing at bangsar...do join me if you intrested...we are playing on tuesday 8 to 10pm. My num is 0123172056

Hi...we are playing at bangsar every tuesdays. Can watsapp Dev 0123172056

Installed this apps, seems like they need more users to before it unlock the ability to find match or games in the area.

This could be useful tho as there are quick assessment to rate up your table tennis rating 

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Find match feature need more player in the area before it is available.

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Interesting quick assessment.

For Tuesday and Thursday... you said 5-6 players will be there. Are they all beginners?

Lets say, I play with a tiny fellow from star elite.  All I need is to do a short side spin curve serve, make the ball bounce off the table right near the net. The only way a tiny fellow to reach that ball is to run to the left side to retrieve because his hand will be too short to do a flick. He has to run tot he side to return that ball, once he returned it, I send a curved ball to his right, off the table near net again on the right this time. He has to run from from left to right, he will never reach there on time.  Even if he manage to reach there, I do left and so on... how long can he survive ?

As for Harimoto, he is tall enough even though when ie was only 14. He could easily reach short ball from the back of the table, no need to go to the side to retrieve
Although I may sound negative, in reality, they may look impressive but they are only good for the on the spot strokes. Don't give them too much praise until they until they are tall enough, then you see how they perform. A lot of them are are just too comfortable ( after getting a lot pf praises ) doing on the spot strokes until they refuse to learn how to move effectively.

You are talking about a different thing.

I am talking about those small sized little kids who cant even reach halfway into the table, with "over-hyped" promotions, that was the discussion. 

Those curve left and right ball is easy to do lah. Even a simple bottom spin near the net with a reverse bounce will get those small sized kids in trouble. I am not talking about those bigger sized kids.

If you tell me star elte and pj union or any place that have any kids that can't even reach half-way into the table and tell me I cant deal with them ? you must be kidding. I dare to bet with you with everything I have.  Not just me, in fact anyone who can play decent table tennis will dare to take up the challenge.

Whether that small kid train with chee feng or ma long or anyone else, makes no difference. He still cant play in real competitive game until he is tall enough, of cos sometimes we do see them in competition but whoever losses to them are mostly self-inflicted loss.

Come...I challenge you to a match. if you can win me then you can talk whatever you want.

ah ok then. anybody can talk whatever they want? Sure sure. I can also say anything I want. YOu got a problem with that??

it was a misunderstanding lah, I was talking about those small kids that barely reach half the table. He is talking about a fully grown up adult size Harimoto.

oh so you join a novice competition good for you. Did u win ?

Yes, tomahawk serve can do side spin as well, but tomahawk is a very tiring serve to do, especially on the knee. I had a lot of experience with this serve during my younger player years. You can win points right from it or get killed by doing it, if you do not recover fast after serve especially when your knee becomes very tired. Even Ding Ning is reducing her tomahawk serve nowadays. Tomahawk is only good for top sidespin, very hard to do short side bottom spin with tomahawk, even if you managed to do it, it will be a lousy one. So, still the 2 finger grip on shakehand bat, forward pendulum or reversed pendulum can make very good side-spin of any kind.

Well, if you do not believe what I said about those ball flight reader, nevermind. Next time when you encounter them you will understand or when you learn it yourself, you will also understand. Of cos even if someone can read ball flight/bounce, he will still be looking at contact point of the ball because if the contact is too obvious, there is no need to read ball flight, because much easier to read contacts than reading ball flight.

Try watch closely on your youtube video on professional players, they only watch opponent body language during serve, then see how their eyes track the ball after opponent hit the ball, they are reading flight, they will watch it bounce ( you can see how they pause with their eyes fixed on the bounce )... then only move in for it.

ITTF ban hiding of ball during serve is to protect weaker players. Reading ball flight is difficult and even more difficult for older players with poorer eye-sight. Imagine if everyone have to learn to read ball flight in order to play table tennis, the table tennis game will be so unpopular and will be dead.

Heavy spin serve are slow, plenty of time to see ball flight. So for ball flight, learn it and all your troubles with spin and long pimples will be gone. IF you dont believe, next time you go and play again, stay focused and watch the ball closely after they serve. There is a fixed pattern in ball flight, just deal with the pattern. A lot of time people could not be bothered to learn how to read ball flight. Unless you are too old with bad eye-sight, then no choice but to skip this skill.