Recent content by ajtatosmano2

  1. What if Zhang Jike would play DTTBL?

    But FZD also likes to be in Germany, that might be a factor ZJK might not have.
  2. The Pro's Equipment - Discussion!

    Anyone knows Yuan Licen, Xu Yingbin, Chen Yuanyu's current setup? I am curious what they use on the BH.
  3. I accidentally made a Chinese rubber insanely tacky — so I started experimenting

    My provincial could never in it's life could hold a ball for a second and pretty much nothing changes it. The commenrcial was sticky to begin with and it's stickyness increased over time, just as you've shown. I don't even need a plastic film for it, it just got stickier as I left it in the...
  4. What is talent in table tennis?

    In my opinion the only 'talent' that really matters is to keep enjoying practice. It's not impossible, but really-really hard to get far if you can't stand training a lot.
  5. I accidentally made a Chinese rubber insanely tacky — so I started experimenting

    Update: UV aging doesn't work. Don't try it. Keeping it lubricated and sealed from air only saved it for a while and didn't add stickyness.
  6. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Season started slightly worse than I wanted. I've lost 3 very close matches in the decider. Also, yesterday the opponent had a payed foreign player who had a very clean style and he was in pretty bad form, I felt like I could win against him, was excited for the match but he resigned just...
  7. How to deal with high humidity and rubbers getting slippery.

    I felt like the topsheet got softer after a while and couldn't hold the ball as well...so I had to apply the rejuvenator again and again to keep the performance, but the worse it got. I would say if you use it with restraint it should be fine. I've had it when I still used Xiom Vega Pro both...
  8. How to deal with high humidity and rubbers getting slippery.

    Be vary that it will shorten the lifespan of your rubbers.
  9. Thread about Japanese Players

    Hirano has no coach at Astana.
  10. GLUE - Does the brand of glue i choose make a noticeable difference ?

    I had problems with the quality control of the Revo3, but it's very popular here. If you get a good bottle it's easy to apply, strong enough and easy to peel off, but I've had multiple bottles that were hard to peel off.
  11. Blade differences between brands?

    I am not a big blade EJ, but my experience with chinese copycats (from sanwei, yinhe and stuor) is that play the same but they feel more muted. Mind you, these are the cheaper stuff, like Sanwei 75, Yinhe V14 etc...and I've experienced the same effect from two different pieces of the same exact...
  12. I accidentally made a Chinese rubber insanely tacky — so I started experimenting

    Okay, so my chemist friend said that to reproduce the effect at home he would try keeping the rubber in a closed enclosure to avoid drying out and use an UV lamp to break up the polymer chains, aging the rubber artificially.
  13. Mystery(?) Rubber ID/Replacement (Friendship 729)

    A defender in our club plays with this, it's a surpsisingly usable rubber. I would glue this on beginner rackets.
  14. I accidentally made a Chinese rubber insanely tacky — so I started experimenting

    I used natural, as per the instructions of the gemini ai. The goal was to infuse the topsheet with the resin, while the turpentine supposedly opens up the chains. I don't know much about organic chemistry either, so just tried to ask the AIs in different ways, in the hope of that maybe one of...
  15. I accidentally made a Chinese rubber insanely tacky — so I started experimenting

    The AI models say a lot of different things, so it's pretty unreliable. Hurricane 3 is supposed to be a vulcanized SBR/BR synthetic rubber blend and not natural rubber, according to the AI. I will ask a real chemist/material scientist if he has any idea. I also doubt that the amount of solvents...
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