I never knew if shoes are of so much importance. I have been mainly playing with running shoes. And have always felt my footwork is not what I could possibly do. But recently bought table tennis shoes and though I have not played any match yet. But just wearing them gives so much confidence in taking low wide stance and feel stable and just move side ways effortlessly as if everything is happening automatically . Earlier with running shoes I felt like it always pushes forward with less effort. And whenever I tried to do a bit of footwork with them I have fallen and almost injured my ankle. I just hope it is not some placebo effect. Will have to wait until I actually play

Yes , Nike flex are great for table tennis . Those TT shoes feels uncomfortable and hurt my feet after wear for couple hours and I bought some regular nike running shoes for TT but so for the Nike flex works good for me and very comfortable as well .

Miss your deep insights on table tennis KZbin. There are so few content about medium pips. I suppose you have something more to tell us, professor. For example, about difference of using medium pips on forehand and on backhand

Why use this rubber as opposed to medium pips? Also, do you think this rubber has more innate spin reversal capability than P3AV?

I recently started testing barefoot shoes. Because these shoes do less, the muscles in my feet have to do more and become stronger. To me, this seems to be the best protection against injuries. (You have to start slowly though, because your feet may not be used to it any more after wearing conventional shows for many years)

Which blade you using ?

Always played flared because the market´s flooded, but your vid has itched my curiosity to try the straight handle.

Im ameture level player. I can.only see the ball once its bounce on my side and always get late to.play my stroke. How can i improve ball watching?

Self made boosted & factory boosted are basically the same. Just make sure the voc level is within acceptable range by rules.

Im a pretty tall backhand dominant guy that needs to slow the game down, because my transition and recovery are just too slow. But the defensive gamestyle has its own problems since the plastic ball. My father played feint soft on forehand back in the 80's and was quite succuessful with that kind of conter block style. Maybe, after 20 years of hiatus Ill give it a try. 😊What rubber would you suggest?

I think it has been discontinued. What other rubber plays similar?

Great review

BLAME THE ITTF. LP used to be more deadly and more common till the ITTF outlawed longer and skinner pips. Likewise anti-spin used to be able to absorb more power and was more deadly till the ITTF outlawed extra-thick sponge behind the anti-spin rubber.

i play anti spin backhand i love it john hilton and luka mladenovic are my heros

which handle does Darko jogic and Timo boll use?

i thought you died

Medium pips are a secret weapon for mid level players. They punish average players because there inverted rubber spin get neutralized. So it turns into a control war and guess whos gonna win that. ..... The mediium pip ox player! The best spin controllung rubber without reversal out there. You can still block...hit... Loop....attack. Its for close table players. I use it on fh....dr evil...stiga all around. If you suck at looping backspin this setup can solve it. Blade is maybe 10%closed...and you swing up a bit to attack. You dont close the blade with mefium pip. Make inverted players play YOUR game! Also great for lightening your setup in ox.

gonna try this, thanks coach👍🏻

Yes, indeed.

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So interesting

I love the content and the name of you channel

For the Long pips side are you using a sponge or is it OX? Would you recommend a sponge with a carbon blade for the long pips?

Thanks for the video. Your channel is an encyclopedia of table tennis, and I'm returning to a particular video along with reaching a new level of my game. Now it's time to loose my grip and become more flexible, because I suddenly understood that it's my biggest problem which stop the development. Hope you will come back to KZbin some day

It's simple. If you are a beginner, don't search for expensive table tennis shoes. Look for similar spotts with same movement sequences, badminton, volleyball, handball or squash. I use volleyball shoes from asics, they have many models with different hardness level. I'm happy with Asics gel blade 7.

Tibhar K1 is sticky I use it on my backhand...

I like the name of your channel so original

I don't play it, but in my view it's the coolest looking style in the sport

Excellent analysis for phantom rubber

i wonder if we will see any world class men using sp on bh

I, 100% agree with your analytics of Anti-rubber. I have just recently tried it. Transformer 1mm Anti-spin on my backhand coupled to Butterfly Dignics 05 on my forehand on a one piece Hinoki Wood blade (Very fast blade) and found it excellent at returning deceptive and spinney serves and very effective against mediocre players (division 4 and 3 and one or two second division players) as it confuses them enormously, forcing them to either return the ball into the net or off the end of the table and if they do manage to return it, the ball always comes back high allowing me to kill it dead with my forehand. However as soon as I get to the upper levels of 2nd and 1st division players, they just loop it with force and kill the the ball dead with no issue and annihilate me and my return. Conclusion:- Helps massively against difficult spinney serves and mediocre players but you will be destroyed as soon as you get to better more advanced players. Good Luck.

Sounds about right. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks for the great on medium pips review. From personal experience, medium pips on backhand is very good if you already have established a good table tennis foundation (strong forehand, good footwork…) I switched my backhand to medium pips and not for long (6 months) people starting to hate me!! Players have learned to play against long, short pips but not many understand medium pips..however, as with everything else, you need to learn your pips since there many different medium pips out there. Work with it and have fun… just for the gaming perspective, I was able to beat quite a few players rating higher than me, and everyone I played against is blaming on the pips.😂😂😂

There's a "new" anti out by DMS Sabotage Off/All, it's a faster Anti, attacking is possible. I agree with you 100%, I had 26 years with long pips, now I'm giving Anti a try, a one-year commitment, it goes against my own logic of the game, but it's been interesting first month.

Im a beginner. I use my running shoe on my first day training and Its so comfortable and I hit some insane shots, my coach really is surprised with those shots but when I change my shoe to table tennis shoe because my coach said to wear some gum sole, my playing style suddenly change and I saw my coach reactions to my shots and some that I cant hit back. Shoes are really important factor in table tennis.Would recommend lighweight running shoes, but becareful in your footwork.

It is simple but hard to do as 2 major factors. First membership, meaning how can you screen the players and only allow good manner players. Entry fee, like anything it cost to run a business and members need to contribute but how much? I would think few dollar is reasonable,

Would be nice to have name and address or website of the companies you are reviewing?

Would appreciate another video that is more about playing against anti. This focused more on playing with anti. Had not played anyone with anti in 2 years and did not have a strategy to attack the anti. Thanks for your videos.

I fully agree - I used to play with a straight handle Nittaku long ago and remember that the handle’s heft gave me great confidence.

Great lessons about medium pips. Could you tell me what kind of blades are good for these pips? Thanks in advance.

Hey 👋 how about the Nike Vapor tennis shoes?

If you are a beginner, buy $20 sheets of Butterfly Flextra. At the intermediate level, step up to $50+ sheets, you will start noticing a difference. Also, mid/high grade rubber will last for years! In any case, never play with pre-made or recreational paddles.

Thank you coach!

15$ for a good chinese rubber or you can pay x4-5 times the price to get expensive tensor eur/jap rubber for a "nice" 20% increase in performance. After being an EJ for a year, I ended up using yinhe 4$ sheet mercury 2 both sides, boosted of course, get the job done & never worry about wasting money🎉

Nice content. Thanks

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Hi, I have been using this racket for 3 years with a long pips in the backhand (SpinLord Dornenglanz OX) and in the forehand currently the Donic-bluestorm-z3. You find me very well, I have a lot of trouble topspin on balls that are very cut in backspin. But you can't have everything! I consider it an excellent racket in terms of quality / price ratio.

I’ve held on to my long pips for years now, but the past few have been hard. You really just get smacker around the table now, even at clubs 😭

Hi Jon, how do you find returning fast nospin serves to your medium pips backhand? I find it easier to attack those serves than with 755 0.5mm longpips, and hope it will be consistent enough to stop better players 3rd ball attacks. I fear that better players will exploit this only weakness and launch 3rd ball attacks again and again. I like medium pips because its great against all other spinny serves and vs backspin and much better than long pips for attacking nospin balls too. I play with Dawei 388C-1 0.5mm on BH and Friendship 802 (on 2.0mm light tensor sponge) FH