My $1000+ setup, my opinions on Golden Viscaria + Zyre 03 2.7mm

[passifid]

The power of Butterfly's marketing policies is unbelievable. The message is very in line with the times: the more you spend the better player you are.
Then a real player comes and beats them with a phone (I am thinking Anders Lind).

I confess I feel a subtle pleasure when I encounter beginners - intermediate players with very expensive equipment and I make them look at their bats unbelievingly when they misread the spins. Or when they lose to a random kid from our club who has been training for 2-4 years with a Korbel and some variation of Fastarc or old rubbers freely donated from players from the first teams that use them for a month and then discard them.

lol we can all beat people worse than us at anything with anything.

If your suggestion is that don't use equipment unless you can beat players with significantly better skill level than you no one would be allowed to play.

Unless the rubber is hurting their development then it shouldn't matter if its more expensive. Do you really thing your DHS Long V is making you significantly better than a Hurricane B2 or DHS PG5? I doubt it. But do you have to use the cheapest version of your equipment possible, no.

 

[Matteones]

lol we can all beat people worse than us at anything with anything.

If your suggestion is that don't use equipment unless you can beat players with significantly better skill level than you no one would be allowed to play.

Unless the rubber is hurting their development then it shouldn't matter if its more expensive. Do you really thing your DHS Long V is making you significantly better than a Hurricane B2 or DHS PG5? I doubt it. But do you have to use the cheapest version of your equipment possible, no.

Ah sorry I explained myself badly.

I am not suggesting of course that any equipment will make you beat significantly better skill level players, as that would be delusional. I was only confessing to my dirty pleasure in that instance.

What I was suggesting with our kids example is that this equipment (zyre, dignics 09c, tenergy) is not only overpriced, but actively detrimental (even if only marginally) for beginner - intermediate level players.

And that maybe 80-90% of the players will never leave the beginner - intermediate level either.

I am also a strong supporter of anyone being able to buy and play with whatever they want, just being conscious of what they are doing.

P.S. I am guilty of EJing too, I bought from this forum a W968 national just a couple of months ago and I am feeling immense pleasure playing with it. And I have no doubt that in a sport as sensitive as table-tennis the belief of playing better makes you play significantly better. That is, it gives you an edge against equally skilled and equally trained people. But skill and training make up 95% of a match-up, with equipment and belief giving you a 5% boost. So I would heavily focus on that 95% training and skill, especially the first, let's say, 10 years of your table tennis practice.

 

[Coolsta Connor]

Hey there, I can't view the image file of your racket setup. How would you say also very stiff blades/SZLC compare to the flex of Golden Visc? Do you think combining the concepts of both would make it good? I am looking deep into theory and have wrote more details on this post of mine: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-faraji-equipment-discussion-read-disc.38773/