Recent content by ersthwil

Depends on what you're trying to achieve? If you're having fun and staying active, use whatever you enjoy. Plenty of older players stuck around 1800-1900 USATT use extremely fast setups to compensate for reduced athleticism. If you're newer to the sport and have a target goal of breaking...

Depends on what you're trying to achieve, I guess? If you're just trying to predict the outcome of a match, you may be able to get away with just training on historical match data. The why is more complicated and would require hundreds or thousands of hours of annotated video data. The appeal...

Mmm, might feel just a teeny bit tacky if you clean the rubber well? Won't pick up a ball for any meaningful amount of time though. After 3ish weeks, I'm pretty happy with G09c. It's cheaper than D09c, does what I need it to, feels pretty darn grippy/spinny, packs a punch if I accelerate. My...

My point is simply that there's some aspect to the rubbers they are currently using that they believe works better for them. Ovtcharov and Qiu have access to D09c. In fact Ovtcharov was trying out D09c at one point before going back to D05. I also swear at one point Qiu was using D09c on his...

Feels like the point here is just that for this player, a harder, grippier (not necessarily tacky) rubber resulted in higher quality shots. There are plenty of harder (than G1) rubbers with more grip. Chinese/Euro/tensor/tacky by themselves don't mean they're "better". Quite a few pros in the...

Been playing with G09c for a couple weeks now on my backhand. Feels easier to access than D09c and Dragon Grip. Feels like I get more spin than Vega X, close to DG/D09c (been ~4 months since I've played with DG and ~7-9 months since I've tried D09c). Yeah, it's not particularly fast but I...

@brokenball I'm a little confused. You state: Cool, I follow and buy that. Tracks with my own experience fiddling with H3/T05/D09c. But then you say: And this is where I'm confused. If the balls grip with lower normal impact speed, then at those speeds the tacky rubber is "spinnier" no...

Umm, 09c is one of the hardest rubbers that Butterfly produces, and significantly more so than Tenergy 05. I don't think there's a big issue is trying out 09c on that blade, but it struck me as odd to say that right after noting that the HALC supposedly doesn't pair with "hard" rubbers. Also...