Recent content by BlueInGreen

Had I tried to compare their level and conclude that Noshad is anywhere near FZD from their rankings (or lacktherof), sure. That would've been ridiculous and staggering of me. Except that I didn't do so. I merely pointed out the fact that a player's ranking is quite meaningless if they're not...

Noshad's #344 WR is nearly as meaningful as FZD's non-existent WR at this point. To try to deduce anything from it about his playing level would be silly. He's been mainly playing league matches in France during the past few years, and barely any WTT tournaments, so of course his ranking points...

Wouldn't an unboosted H3 suck even harder on BH though? In case there was a problem with his H3, I suspect he would've ditched it all together and played D09C both sides. Who knows, perhaps he's too bored with beating everybody that he wants to try going full 2020 LJK hulk-style, and just wants...

Strangely enough, Fan Zhendong is playing with a red rubber on FH in his latest Bundesliga match, while his black rubber seems to be the usual H3BS. I can't quite tell if the FH rubber is D09C or Z03. I wonder if he's just having fun playing with his normal racket twiddled, or is he seriously...

I have never personally owned a Viscaria, but Joola ZQH 90 is an excellent blade indeed. Great manufacturing quality, very crisp feeling, but also has really nice touch and is surprisingly good at generating spin given how fast it can be. My coach (a top young player in my country himself) uses...

Well, I guess it's good to know that in case his career doesn't work out for some reason, he can still have a bright future as a Manika Batra "clone" for the CNT. ;)

I used to play with H8-80 on BH, and recently pasted a sheet of D09C to try. To me, D09C is a straight-up upgrade in almost aspect (excl. price), and not necessary harder to use either. To elaborate, H8-80 has a tackier and softer topsheet, whereas 09C has much less tack but its topsheet is...

I've always had the same impression of H3N BS on BH, and would've loved to play with it on both sides if a red version existed. I have a fair amount of experience with H3N 37/38 on BH as well, and just as you said, for some reason they just don't have the nice elastic and dwelly feel on BH that...

Not any official ones that I know of. There might be a few that sell Li-Ning apparel, but it's highly unlikely that they'd risk going for the niche table tennis market here. Barely anybody plays with DHS rubbers in our table tennis scene anyway, or Chinese tacky rubbers for that matter, except...

Well, yes, of course. :) That's the standard international price, even on TableTennis11 after the 30% volume discount. I would be able to get the Prov. BS for ~$35 on AliExpress, except that I happen to be from a country with an economy hobbled by US Treasury third-party sanctions. That...

So, I've been using National H3N BS 41° for the past 1.5 years on my FH. It has completely cured my EJ when it comes to FH rubbers. Problem is, the vendors in my country sell the BS versions for absurdly high prices, almost twice as much as the OS version ($70 for Prov, which I find utterly...

I have recently put on a sheet of Mantra Pro H (Violet) on my AJH TMXi Pro, and can confirm all of your descriptions. Some background: the backhand has always been my weaker side, and I have never quite found a BH rubber that I'm fully confident in like I am with H3 on FH, especially on limba...

I haven't tried BD2, but I have played with BD4 which I highly suspect is the same product but for the non-Chinese market. The two rubbers look identical to me and share the same packaging (except for the background colour); even the description on the back side is the same. BD4 is not really a...

This happened to me once while boosting with Seamoon. Can confirm that it ruins the topsheet grip, leading to ball slippage problems. I tried to clean the rubber afterwards with soapwater and spray cleaners, but I simply couldn't get rid of the stain.

As for the sponge, it was quite brittle when I used it as well. I think that's pretty normal for LAC sheets and probably not something to worry about. The topsheet, however, was decently tacky for me — slightly less than H3 perhaps, but still enough to lift the ball in the air for at least 2s...