But carbon itself is useless, if hipnotic made me a blade with only kevlar or Zylon or glass fiber or a piece of fabric in it and no carbon at all, it would have been probably the same ! that's the point here when I say carbon is useless, I was tricked by my EJ inner mind at that time, got back to an all wood blade, and played better.!
I'm indeed not a well ranked player, as most of the people here, got to a RC 1400 recently at 49, the best I've been is 1700 at a teenager. And even at that time training a lot, I 've used speed glue only one year because sure the speed and spin feeling was cool with it, but the control was... nowhere. Just took a 7 ply blade all wood for 2 years and then non carbon composite with glass fiber and I felt really great since that time.
It's an EJ thing if you're an amateur, and to me amateurs are all the people that do not make a living with table tennis, there are beginers, intermediate, and advanced amateurs of course, but if you don't make a living with it, if it does not pay the bill, simple: you're not a pro. Or you're a very young aspiring pro alerady playing in a 3 tier league and being coached at least 4 hours a day in a future talent academy.