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My name is Greg and I used to play TT 3-4 nights a week at home for about 3 hours. Was terribly into all sports, but loved the death out of TT. I had 10 vision in my left eye and 15 in my right with seriously quick hands. Now, I am 46 and even though I struggle and struggle to read small print, I wold rather wait for an hour for my eyes to adjust, which they have stopped doing. It's ok..I will do with out, or will be happy with my guesses at what the words are..its kind of athletic in a way.
5 years ago I decided to get back in to TT and went to Big 5 and spared no expense at getting the biggest baddest ping pong paddle I cold buy.. A Stiga with some sort of rating of a speed of 18 and control of 14 I think. I was ready and was living at the Grand Canyon at the time. Got back into it. I was training for a marathon, long story, then bought equipment for a 4,300 mile bike trip across country ( US) but my IT band stopped my leg from rotating during the trip. Moved to Chico, Cal and met an owner of a local sports store and he told me of there once a week TT club. So I started going. It was more like a party n the back of a tee shirt making place but with an Olympic table as one of two tables. Took me a month or so, but..began to be able to beat everyone and I could start to see where my game used to be when for 1 1/2 years as a teenager I used to be. A gf's dad came over, he was number 2 in either erie county or in NY state..I forget which, but I beat him best out of 5 without losing a set 4 times in a row. I cold finesse any chop with a spiny flick or else slam the hell out of it or loop crazily. WELL...back to 2 years ago...these guys all had paddple that were 100-300 dollars...I couldn't believe it. I played with my $30 Stiga for about a year and then a freind of mine said he had just bought a bat he didn't like...the Silver/Black and said I cold have it for $45 so i bought it with innova and spinspiel rubbers. It was ok..a step up, but nothing special. Well...it broke...on some innocuous hit and the maker said they would give me %30 off anything, basically wholesale.
LOL... I have been studying bats and rubbers for about 3 weeks now! and still not sure exactly what is best for me. I have blazing quick hands and can slam slams pretty close to table as welll as block back slams..but I also love to finesse and drop shots over the net and go down the line or side spin a slam, or just make the ball buzz as hard as i can with a released tennis backhand once in a while but my mainstay is a 4-5 inch back handtopspin hard flick that sends the best 8 feet off the table where they are no match for my %100 percent full swing power leaving lttle red marks on their chest..lol maki ng them scream out loud covering themselves. Hope this is coming out kind of funny...They do love the contributions to the energy levels when I am there.
So..! A really good player started playing there and decided it was time in his life to buy a new bat too, so he studied for only a week and came back last week with a Timo Ball ZLC? with tenergies on both sides. He was happy to let me use it as we discussed it as I played. Very powerful. I had to let up to about %50 percent to feel I was in control. I didn't use it enough to check out all the things I have read these last 2 weeks, but...I do know that I loved the lower gears. But I couldnt just block back normally, it would sail off the table and realzed a dirextonal push was possible but with angle adjustments. I know Tenergies take a week or so to break in so to speak, but am still wondering if I would ever be able to use full power with these things. I am drawn to the rubbers that the pros use, as most of us seem to be, but...I would like something that maybe isnt quite so much a stress to my game to get to the upper levels.
Unlimited $ isn't there..but, I do have a few thousand options...hope u tell me what u think.
I am looking at Rakza 7 for my bh, with either a Genius or Grip S FH., but may go to grip S bh and keep the genus fh. I liked these rubbers cause they say you can kill the spns of undercuts and top em back over which oi love to do, as well as, when you don't use the sponge, you have so many lower gears to place and drop. I do love counterlooping jst for the thrill of it, but if I were to get serious and really want to take 2 weeks to gear up I wold be smashing with full bore with as much spin as i could or just flatten out a kill.. But I just dont know if these rubbers will ever let me do that?
The bats I have narrowed down are... Stiga carbo 7.6 wrb ( I wanted to stay away from stiga...just crept back in last night )
Alulass ( the one I am leaning towards )
Ma Lin Extra ( people seem to love this)
Piecea ( If I remeber right, is an all Hinoki wood but n plies, hinoki intrigues me)
Persson Powerplay V1 (I think I wold love this stuff in the handle that gives you feel)
Which reminds me..f anybody is reading.. I loved the game of a guy I saw... Karakasevic (does anyone know his setup? lol..think he uses killerspin)
I know there are alot of rubbers out there...but these are the ones my ego says I should have as I always thought I could be good. I am lookng for a learning curve I guess, but I dont want it to be tooo drastic.
Wold actually love to have all 5 of these blades ( along with 30-40 others..maybe realistically 25..well..nope..maybe 40 ) but, can only have one for now...
I am leaning towards the Alulass with Genius on the FH with Grip S on the BH.
Thanks if you beared with me through all of this..Dan..if you get thru this, I think you are some sort of moderator, will leave it up to you if this should be in the introduce yourself page. I just felt that I had so many questions, of which I havent asked to many yet,..lol..perhaps they will come up here if anyone cares to respond.
BTW..I won Globe 999 rubbers from ebay for $14..have no idea if this is good or not.
Thanks for nput..I wont see you on the lve feeds as the US is painfully blocked although I go to see the first 2-3 3 nights and the proxy didn;'t work for me instead it almost klled my computer..
All right..My name is Greg.... Ciao
My name is Greg and I used to play TT 3-4 nights a week at home for about 3 hours. Was terribly into all sports, but loved the death out of TT. I had 10 vision in my left eye and 15 in my right with seriously quick hands. Now, I am 46 and even though I struggle and struggle to read small print, I wold rather wait for an hour for my eyes to adjust, which they have stopped doing. It's ok..I will do with out, or will be happy with my guesses at what the words are..its kind of athletic in a way.
5 years ago I decided to get back in to TT and went to Big 5 and spared no expense at getting the biggest baddest ping pong paddle I cold buy.. A Stiga with some sort of rating of a speed of 18 and control of 14 I think. I was ready and was living at the Grand Canyon at the time. Got back into it. I was training for a marathon, long story, then bought equipment for a 4,300 mile bike trip across country ( US) but my IT band stopped my leg from rotating during the trip. Moved to Chico, Cal and met an owner of a local sports store and he told me of there once a week TT club. So I started going. It was more like a party n the back of a tee shirt making place but with an Olympic table as one of two tables. Took me a month or so, but..began to be able to beat everyone and I could start to see where my game used to be when for 1 1/2 years as a teenager I used to be. A gf's dad came over, he was number 2 in either erie county or in NY state..I forget which, but I beat him best out of 5 without losing a set 4 times in a row. I cold finesse any chop with a spiny flick or else slam the hell out of it or loop crazily. WELL...back to 2 years ago...these guys all had paddple that were 100-300 dollars...I couldn't believe it. I played with my $30 Stiga for about a year and then a freind of mine said he had just bought a bat he didn't like...the Silver/Black and said I cold have it for $45 so i bought it with innova and spinspiel rubbers. It was ok..a step up, but nothing special. Well...it broke...on some innocuous hit and the maker said they would give me %30 off anything, basically wholesale.
LOL... I have been studying bats and rubbers for about 3 weeks now! and still not sure exactly what is best for me. I have blazing quick hands and can slam slams pretty close to table as welll as block back slams..but I also love to finesse and drop shots over the net and go down the line or side spin a slam, or just make the ball buzz as hard as i can with a released tennis backhand once in a while but my mainstay is a 4-5 inch back handtopspin hard flick that sends the best 8 feet off the table where they are no match for my %100 percent full swing power leaving lttle red marks on their chest..lol maki ng them scream out loud covering themselves. Hope this is coming out kind of funny...They do love the contributions to the energy levels when I am there.
So..! A really good player started playing there and decided it was time in his life to buy a new bat too, so he studied for only a week and came back last week with a Timo Ball ZLC? with tenergies on both sides. He was happy to let me use it as we discussed it as I played. Very powerful. I had to let up to about %50 percent to feel I was in control. I didn't use it enough to check out all the things I have read these last 2 weeks, but...I do know that I loved the lower gears. But I couldnt just block back normally, it would sail off the table and realzed a dirextonal push was possible but with angle adjustments. I know Tenergies take a week or so to break in so to speak, but am still wondering if I would ever be able to use full power with these things. I am drawn to the rubbers that the pros use, as most of us seem to be, but...I would like something that maybe isnt quite so much a stress to my game to get to the upper levels.
Unlimited $ isn't there..but, I do have a few thousand options...hope u tell me what u think.
I am looking at Rakza 7 for my bh, with either a Genius or Grip S FH., but may go to grip S bh and keep the genus fh. I liked these rubbers cause they say you can kill the spns of undercuts and top em back over which oi love to do, as well as, when you don't use the sponge, you have so many lower gears to place and drop. I do love counterlooping jst for the thrill of it, but if I were to get serious and really want to take 2 weeks to gear up I wold be smashing with full bore with as much spin as i could or just flatten out a kill.. But I just dont know if these rubbers will ever let me do that?
The bats I have narrowed down are... Stiga carbo 7.6 wrb ( I wanted to stay away from stiga...just crept back in last night )
Alulass ( the one I am leaning towards )
Ma Lin Extra ( people seem to love this)
Piecea ( If I remeber right, is an all Hinoki wood but n plies, hinoki intrigues me)
Persson Powerplay V1 (I think I wold love this stuff in the handle that gives you feel)
Which reminds me..f anybody is reading.. I loved the game of a guy I saw... Karakasevic (does anyone know his setup? lol..think he uses killerspin)
I know there are alot of rubbers out there...but these are the ones my ego says I should have as I always thought I could be good. I am lookng for a learning curve I guess, but I dont want it to be tooo drastic.
Wold actually love to have all 5 of these blades ( along with 30-40 others..maybe realistically 25..well..nope..maybe 40 ) but, can only have one for now...
I am leaning towards the Alulass with Genius on the FH with Grip S on the BH.
Thanks if you beared with me through all of this..Dan..if you get thru this, I think you are some sort of moderator, will leave it up to you if this should be in the introduce yourself page. I just felt that I had so many questions, of which I havent asked to many yet,..lol..perhaps they will come up here if anyone cares to respond.
BTW..I won Globe 999 rubbers from ebay for $14..have no idea if this is good or not.
Thanks for nput..I wont see you on the lve feeds as the US is painfully blocked although I go to see the first 2-3 3 nights and the proxy didn;'t work for me instead it almost klled my computer..
All right..My name is Greg.... Ciao