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Hi y'all,

Greetings from Indonesia, currently I am joining the PTM Sawlin club in Padang City, West Sumatra.
I have just started to take the sport seriously after having my first rodeo a few years ago at HS. I am in my mid-30s rn.
I am still developing my playing style, as you can see from my equipment, I'm starting with a slow paddle, however, I prefer chopping a lot. Probably someone here could give me some pointers. My level is beginner. I have a desk job from 8 to 5. I do other sports as well, like badminton, running, etc. I am into aerial photography as well. I stumbled upon this forum by accident after browsing for "Kaz the chopper". Looking forward to get to know you all.

Hello, my name is João, I'm 15 years old, I'm from Brazil, and I train at the Jaúpong team. I have been playing for approximately 1.5 years. I am a modern defensive style player, using pips in rubbers on the forehand and long pips on the backhand. My current equipment is the Koji Matsushita Offensive blade, Butterfly Tackiness Chop for the forehand, and TSP Curl P1-R 1.0mm for the backhand. My playing level is intermediate, and I train every day, with my level improving each day. When I'm not playing table tennis, I am at school. Besides table tennis, I have a passion for airplanes, photography, and cars, so I do plane spotting in my spare time. I found the forum while looking for information about materials for cutmans.

I would like to hear mora about you process changing to long pips. Thanks for being back.

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Hey Everyone!

There's probably a few things to share about me:

• Have played Table Tennis for nearly 20 years.
• Started playing in England as a junior, then moved to Sydney, Australia in my 20s.
• Qualified (Level 1) Coach & Umpire.
• An 'All-Rounder' playstyle

I also run a table tennis blog at Racket Insight where we post equipment reviews, training guides, opinion pieces and more all about table tennis!

In your blog do you have also content about long pips?

Welcome

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hi, my name is Jure, from Slovenia 41 years old. playing from early childhood - my father was a coach and gave me a racquet and table tennis balls and that kept me busy while he was coaching. one of my first memories is playing table tennis on an old butterfly robot, could barely see over the table ... played professionally until age of 25-26, then slowly stopped ... after almost 17 years I am getting back into the game.

Fantastic, welcome back

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Amazing content, all the best and I hope we con do a collab together

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Just signed up here. Not sure how active this place is yet.
Anyways im Danish. 52 male. I loved TT as a child and played on off throughout my life but Shotokan Karate was my main thing. I ended up on elite level competing and at one point was a national champion.
Moved to South America where I live now.
I have my own martial arts dojo and teach. However my secret love for TT was ignited again when I realized I could set up a TT table after my morning classes in karate and MMA.
It has kind of made me obsessed with it. Same way I was obsessed with Karate in my younger years. I play daily for hours now. Luckily I got some serious players in my town. I was at the bottom at the food chain just few years ago.
Today im 2nd best. My old competitive self has reemerged haha.
Nr. 1 is a retired former pro player. I take set of him but not games... yet.
So far able to keep the young guys at bay too. Wife plays too and she is kicking some B.... too.

Martial arts and TT are very similar in so many ways its not even funny. I could talk for hours about the similarities. And maybe I will one day.
TT is great fun and so good for the nervous sytem and brain.

My name is Emilio, I am from Malaga in the south of Spain and I am 51 years old.

I entered this world of table tennis since my son is the one who plays and I had to take him to training; currently, I have been playing for a year and a half but I am very bad.

Starting because I don't know how to play, I decided to put a strange rubber such as an antitop placed on the most beautiful racket on the market "the cybershape".

Since I was little I have loved computers, games and computing in general and I am lucky to work as a computer scientist.

I have several websites and YouTube channels, and I'll tell you about the ones dedicated especially to table tennis, which are tennisdemesapro (web and youtube).

I found this forum thanks to a friend who commented that they could answer some questions I had here, so we came to check it out.

Greetings to all

Hi I am re-introducing myself as I have been away from this forum for years. I am Ian Demagii.

I used to play an excellent deep chopping game/forehand attacking game much like Panagiotis Gionis ( only much much worse)...due to age and infirmary, My Doctor who is also a player suggested that I change my game and modify it to being in a wheelchair. I can no longer cover the table with my forehand, nor do I have the connetic chain to drive my forehand (from feet to ankles, thighs, hips....) It's just not in the cards from the wheelchair, so what to do?

I have settled on a short/medium pips out combination of Der Material Specialist Spinfire soft short spinny pips out forehand 1.8 mm (in lovely powder blue), and Der Material Specialist Flashback on my backhand (in black) 1.5 mm.

For an offensive player who would rather roll and hit more than block, Flashback is a great rubber (and maddening for my opponent, believe me, this rubber is triple weird), Spinfire is very spinny and good for topspin drive and serving

It is my opinion that I can successfully play this combo from the "fricken" chair. Please wish me luck

Ian

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Blade: Giant Dragon Kris: FH: Friengship 729 Judo (red) 2.0 BH: Feint Long 3 (black) 1.3
Blade: Alfa Pro : FH: Friendship Judo (red) 2.0 BH TSP Curl P-1r (black) 1.4

Welcome back Ian!

Great that you've found a way to still be competitive despite your health limitations! That's what I love about this sport... you cam still be competitive with the right style and equipment, despite any age or health issues.

Good luck Ian!

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