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How is this possible with double inverted?

I get what your saying. This is one of the big reasons (almost service related exclusively) why I bounce back and forth from OX to sponged. If it's a high ball, I almost always have time to twiddle, but if I don't I will do a rare LP hit. I played a hitting style for about 4 months and with sponge, so I'm able to do that with some consistency.

But the serves...even with the videos you and DA showed me, OX serve return is weak against low spin balls. Just cannot make that work even with the best placement. If the attacker knows LPs even a little bit, they'll wack those all day.

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I've been mixing fun and more goal oriented practice the last month and I feel I'm on the right track atm, slowly getting back to a more aggressive and offensive game. I've switched to a flared grip which I feel have helped my chopping and blocking/chop blocking, this is because I can have a more relaxed grip which makes it easier to dampen harder attacks. I still step in with the BH in the middle of the table too often as well as backing off too easily. Another thing is that I tend to step in too far after using my FH serve, that's something I've tried to fix before but never succeded to really drill into my head.

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Hi there. Did you get bitten by a polar bear or something up there, or what's up?

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Haha luckily not! I planned to play the whole summer but as usual the hunger to practice went away when it started to get warm and we moved to our summer cabin (just 25km from town). I just need a couple of months in the summer to recharge my batteries.

I go back to work next week and plan on starting my training middle of August.

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Sounds like great plan!

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I had my first session for the season yesterday and it was petty awful, my timing was off and I felt stiff as a board, had a lot of trouble returning serves and missed a lot of my own serves as well. The most notable thing was how slow I've become, just over the summer, usually the difference isn't this big but I didn't have the foundation to stand on that I usually do and I guess I'm getting older as well.

This year I will alternate between our team in Division 1 and our team in Division 2. I will play with the main team when they have gatherings with four matches (one in September and one in March I think) and I will play with the second team when the gatherings are only one day (two matches). I'm simply not needed then since the main team only travels with four players those days.

I definitely have a lot of work to put in the next month, I'm even contemplating putting on the running shoes since I can't see how I can get in decent shape in time otherwise.

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More table tennis is probably going to help you a lot more than running though.

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just had a marathon session and read it all.really enjoyed it-so i think this will be the real test to find your perfect combo-you are playing better players and you will have to deal with some big attacks-you mentioned that you realise that you need control and slow equipment in order to defend and then you can attack.i always try and play the best people in my club.i agree that if you can control their attacks then you have a good chance.my eyes have certainly been opened here.regarding the ej bug-i think if you can get stuff cheap and then sell it on it isnt really a problem.on a personal note i recently beat 2 very good player using a very controlled combo and i like yasaka anti power as it plays like an inverted.ive stopped looking for the moment-i did try f2 and thought it was nice but the
throw angle on the a/p is so low and the ball seldom pops up.

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Day -by-day inhalation of the speed glues is not any good for health..

Wow, good work reading it all! I'm glad you found it interesting

I've been back and forth a bit when it comes to the "slow vs fast setup"-discussion, right now I'm using a faster blade and have done so for the last 3-4 months or so. It's mainly because I don't have the consistency in my defence to successfully win by chopping, at least not on a higher level, and thus I need to be more aggressive and attack more. That's been my main focus for some time now, get my offensive mind back and stay aggressive as much as possible. Atm I'm using Stiga Clipper, I revisited this blade again this spring and found that it plays very similar to my Spinlord Ultra Carbon, minus the carbon feel and with the most comfortable handle I've ever tried. I've used this blade a lot before, it was my main blade for many years before I changed to LP, and I've also used it a bit with LP before as well. I'm starting to get used to the smaller head as well.

One "upside" is that me and my partner is tightening our budget to save some more for when we're buying our own house (hopefully not too far away). Because of this I can't keep on EJ'ing like I used to, of course it doesn't stop me from EJ'ing with the stuff I already have but it's gonna help.

On another note I had my first real running session in 6 years this saturday and I've felt like an invalid these last two days, boy do my body hurt haha. I managed to get 10km out of it but I really had to dig deep. I've got a lot of work to do if I want to get in shape. I have another table tennis session planned tonight but I'm not sure how it's gonna work out when I can barely move haha.

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i feel your pain mate-i played a very hard tennis league match yesterday(doubles) against good quality players.im wrecked today.i also have sciatica lol.ive heard very good reports about the clipper.i was watching a decent you tube vid with greg letts-he was trying to play close to the table attack-he had a nice controlled forehand-he was also rolling b/h loops with pips.
ps -it was either read your blog or watch some garbage tv soap with the wife
ive played tennis for years but im new to tt-
i have an analytical brain and try and keep my strategy simple-eg-try and play the best players in the club-if you can keep there attacks at bay and control them you can then set yourself up for a nice controlled attack.

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igorponger wrote:

Day -by-day inhalation of the speed glues is not any good for health..

If you are coming back to running after 6 yr hiatus, it helps to start slower - 10K might be too much right now, no wonder you are hurting

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Yeah I should've started slower, the plan was 4-5km but I ended up taking a route that was much longer, but the tempo was pretty slow though. I used to run quite a bit during my teenage years but I usually ran shorter distances (3-5km) in higher tempo, only running 10km+ once every other week. I'm not really too fond of running though since I think it's pretty boring hehe, I much prefer to run on small trails in the woods where the ground is a bit more challenging.

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Had another session tonight and it felt much better, still slow and stiff as hell but I played pretty well with the LP at the table actually and more of my FH attacks found the target. Gotta get in better shape though, at least a bit lighter on my feet.

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God, I love playing with Calibra but the durability is soooo bad, the topsheet is pretty much done in a month. The same thing goes for Dornenglanz, one month and I start loosing pips. It feels both good and bad that durability is an issue again, since that means I'm not changing setup all the time haha.

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I'm slowly getting back in shape and I'm playing a bit better every session. I felt a lot faster tonight and my FH was more on point. What still hasn't come back to me is the touch and I'm having trouble with my serves and especially with my returns, way too many pop ups and easy mistakes.

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