Go forum 19 and rent a table. Cheap and decent playing conditions. Do it on a weekend to avoid traffic.

thanks for the video.

I hope I can find something similar to my hand problem. Some parts of my finger knuckle and joints turned white. Every now and then they will get swollen and loss of feeling, sometimes it feels fine. According to one of my doctor, there is a problem with my hand nerve.

not just physics, its biology as well. I am not sure you notice or not, if you put the last 3 fingers are tight together, your wrist cannot turn freely, if they are separated and and lose, your wrist can turn freely.  One of my coach last time spend a lot of time with fingers, just thought I share some of the things I learn last time with you guys.

For us casual players, mind sharing the video link please? Thank you in advance.

Thank you very much... Let's learn together.

If your friend is willing to learn and has desire to get better, you could teach him and help him to get better. Then you would have a better player to play with. Otherwise, weak player can never improve. But I understand your feeling, its less fun if the standard between 2 players are too huge.

The common scenario is that the good players don't like to play against the weak players and the weak players don't have opportunity to improve by playing against the good players.

Get a long pimple bat or a dead rubber for him to use, then you can have a lot of practice to improve yourself. If you send a heavy spin to his long pimple, you get back strong spin also, that way you can practice on your own strength. But be careful, you may even lose.. haha  You have to adjust yourself to the return of long pimple which is normally opposite of what you send earlier, you can also practice reading ball flight and ball bounce pattern from this kind of training partner. Ball bounce pattern reading is very useful playing against players with strange service where you cant see his serve, you only have chance to see how the ball fly and bounce on your table to determine the type of spin+strength and decide what to return.

If he ask you how to use long pimple, it is quite easy to operate. When played near table. for backspin ball, hold the pimple bat slightly open then do a quick jab at the incoming backspin ball, the ball will return nicely to the other side. for a topspin/sidespin ball, hold the pimple bat slightly close angle and do a quick jab at the top-spin ball and ball will also return nicely to the other side. The angle of bat he will have to adjust for the accuracy. If the ball is far away from table, ask him to do a big chop with the long pimple, easier to control from far with chop for this type of rubber.

I am not a long pimple player, I only know how to use it at very basic level, advanced long pimple players have different techniques.

You can improve yourself by playing against such setup because you are more or less playing against whatever you want, the spin is controlled by you. It is easier for him to return your shots also, he will have no problem returning your service or any spinny shots you give him.

If he insist of using grippy rubber, you can still improve by playing with. His strokes are more or less harmless... usually weak and near the net, you can practice a lot of backhand and forehand flicks, which usually you wont have much chance to practice if you play with good players.

another way is to train by yourself, get yourself a ball catcher net ( you can make or buy the ready made ). Buy 100 pcs of training ball and simply toss ball and send across to the net with various kind of shots. You can also do alot of service practice with the ball catcher.

As for me, I make my own ball catcher as in the picture below. Since I do not play outside anymore, I practice on my own at home for at least 30 mins each day when I am not having any finger problems. Just to keep myself healthy and in touch with the game.



You can buy or make it yourself. It is fairly cheap and easy to make, all you  need is 2 pcs of PVC pipe ( can get from any hardware shop, 9ft cost less than RM5 each ), mosquito net ( get from MR DIY ), 2 F-clamps. The whole thing cost you less than RM50. The difficult part is to bend the PCV pipe, you can use heat gun if you have or just use your stove. Of cos easiest is to buy one, save you time and get a more professionally built ball catcher.

For ready made ones, I am not sure got cheaper ones or not. I just simply do a search and found this

https://shopee.com.my/BALL-CATCHER-NET-i.49370283.1848650121