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The Wing Fast is one of the newest blades from Joola, and has a faster and harder feel to compensate for the speed glue ban.  I tried it after the recent Junior Olympics and loved its bounce and feeling.  Now even though I use Mambo C, which has no built in glue effect, I feel that my blade/sponge combination is beneficial to my game.  For those players who prefer a slower blade witheven more control, I would recommend the Wing Medium.  These blades also have an awesome Hinoki handle that feels comfortable with no sanding required.

I have been playing table tennis for a little over a year now. I my rating right now is about 1243 but can play on par with people who's ratings are around the 1700 range after much training. My rating was steadily going up from 600 to 1296 when I encountered a guy with long  pips at the 2008 eastern open. This made my rating plunge 63 points. Now I hope with the next tournament that I goto, I will be able to raise my rating to around 1700.

Blade: Fever (Flared)

FH Rubber:Drum (Max)

BH Rubber:Energy (Max)

Shoes:Bend 2008

The Fever is not too fast but not too slow. It is a decent blade because it produces a great amount of spin when combined with Drum. Energy on the other hand is a faster rubber with great glue effect sound. Thats is basically why I use Energy on myt backhand. Both rubbers are pretty durableso its worth buying. 

Hey everyone!

With USOpen a week behind us, its time to relax and reflect upon what we damage we did and how we could have done things differently. Train here, train there..Now we're starting to count down for nationals to show our true colors.  Five months (for anyone wondering)!

Well personally, I had an excellent Open. Sure it was rocky along the way but everyone's islike that (mine always just seems to be a bit rockier. haha!).  I played a total of five events, one a day, and did quite alright. I advanced in most of my groups and I got to semi's for Womens 2100U. Overall, I played much smarter this tournament and I was even able to steal a couple of points here and there. Heeelllo 1824.

And as quite a few people notice, okay maybe everyone who's known me since I was ten, I took up photography. Yes! That's where at least 65% of my time at Vegas was. It was a little intimidating at first because well, I've never taken pictures at such a big tournament but after the first day I got used to it. I figured out that the players dont really mind as long as I dont ruin the point for them..But! It was really cool. And you guys can expect to see me carrying a camera in one hand and a paddle in the other. If you guys want to check some of my pictures, and my dads's, you can go to www.gerrychua.com and take a look. :)

So much going on these days, Im so grateful that its summer.

And Im thankful for JoolaUSA!
You guys, we're so cool. Daaang.

Anyways, Im out! Later!

 

Hi everybody,  sorry I havent been blogging.. I've been at my coach's club training with her for the U.S.Open. I stayed a total of one month and trained around the clock. It was really intense, and really hot. I improved my overall game while having fun at the same time.

 My training paid off at USOpen, completely. I won 3700doubles with my friend Anand Engineer. I placed second in Boys11U and recieved semifinalist for Boys13U. Its alright though, I played my hardest. There were some tough matches, but they were really great to play.

I gotta go running, so bye!

Last week I participated in the Chen Weixing Training Camp, where he and Tanja Hain-Hoffman were the main coaches.  I really liked how these camps were run, because everybody got to work with the coaches and we learned some new techniques and strategies that have developed recently.  Learning how the modern game is played as well as how to adjust to the new equipment laws (most notablythe ban on glue) is a major plus towards improving your game.

Now its off to the U.S. Open. Hope to see many of you there.

This is ethan j. Im in China training. So tired. Everday 6 hours of multiball and single ball training.oh well. got to improve. cya

Sorry for not posting anything in a while... I have been busy with many other things. Now I have more time on my hands and i'll try to write more.

 

US Open is coming up and I am ready to dominate. 

Hey I'm back. I just played a tournament. It was Cary Cup. I did OKAY. The finals and semis and quarters were real exciting. Segn Toriala won over Wang Zhen. 4-2. All right, i am training hard with my coaches and preparing for some other tournaments like in May South Bend tournament. Allright cya.

 

 

ethan j.

Hi Everyone,

Wow! my blog is the most popular blog. My coach told me about it. I am enjoying playing in the USATT league here in the Bay Area. I am in the U3900 team for Palo Alto Club. I am getting good experience playing different kinds of players. I am looking forward to the Elite group matches on Mar 15th. Will be fun to watch Stefan play a tournament.  Harry is still missing in action. I sometimes get threats that he is going to return but so far I have escaped :) Soon, I shall post a picture of him and maybe Sheri for all of you to see. So if you meet them, you can say Hi to them from me. Maybe if you are nice to them, they might even coach you. They are GOOD. Now I think they feel I am good so I don't need their help :)

Keep having fun. Hope to see some of you at the Berkeley Tournament this month.

 Kanak.