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Visiting extended family later this month on the 16th and will be landing in Bilbao Airport. Since it's farther from the capital and I don't speak the language, I wanted to know if anyone knows of any spots or know of any stores.

Opponent's positioned heavier into backhand (backhand serve and receives middle usually with backhand). Instead of being a stronger backhand player, it looks like they are balanced defensive and a bit weaker on the backhand. You should be working your way into their strike zone instead of away...

There's an argument to be made that Felix could still benefit from a twiddling perspective because he already uses K3 on both sides. Of course, the twiddling argument is reductive in the sense that it would effectively diminish Felix's typically offensive rotation. I personally think Felix...

I have a setup that's Yasaka Extra Special CPEN, Yinhe Uranus Pro + NUZN 50, but I'm still reluctant to fully switch over to short pips forehand because I love the feeling of forehand looping as a penholder. However, I already took a 3 month break due to an internship, so I think now is the...

Any Chinese Penhold blades in that dishwasher? Custom penhold blades seem to be few in number.

I prefer the short pips forehand and inverted backhand penhold without twiddling like Wang Zengyi. I think trying to move the inverted to forehand means your backhand gets weaker since short pips on forehand means both your tpb smash is more consistent than pips rpb and you can work more on...

China has very nice local park playing population and decent players, but the difficulty comes in trying to find a program whereas you can probably get a more well established program in Taiwan with a similar experience and less stress. There just isn't a lot of resources within China for...

1. Minions FZD clone 2. Some savants of wacky styles 3. Equipment with higher resell value 4. Land of overpriced woods. Honestly I’ve seen videos of just as many JPen users uses multiply without hinoki, unless you wanna hit through spin like Ryu Seung Min, that upper gear is a bit extra.

honestly I wonder if there’s a tier list for foreign places to stay abroad for table tennis for like a few months at a time. I think I would place Korea, Taiwan, and Japan at the top because I would expect there’s a higher concentration of accessible tournaments and playing locations.

The following are setups that I come across at my college campus. DHS and Yinhe 5 ply with generic rubbers like PF4 and Yinhe Mercury+Mars. A slightly more expensive was yinhe U-2 plus 2000E and mercury 2. Palio 3 stars with carbon and palio cj8000. But one of the blades that one of the faster...

I don’t really think hurricane dies, I have a sheet glued to my backup blade that I forgot about with about 3 months of 8-10 hours of practice a week. It isn’t tacky anymore but it’s still just as playable and the spin on serve is decent. This is a sheet that has been boosted so I expect that it...

At least if it is a simple 2 wheel robot, it’s possible that you are getting attuned to the rate of fire instead of practicing good habits. It’s possible that the quality of the stroke lowers as result of the repetition instead of increasing due to the regularity. That’s why I think rebound...

I personally used my xuperman powerplay x for close to a month now and I just don't find it any better than B2 or H3. The feeling is missing, but the overall playability is not that far from a h3. I just find the feeling kind of missing and only really appreciate it's flat hits over those of h3.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806124752781.html I ordered this plain looking asymmetrical clone to try. I'm not expecting too much out of these asymmetrical offensive blades to be as clear as having a pure koto alc or limba zlc because the blade response will be a weird mesh of the two...

^Honestly, I only purchased from PrinceTT because it used to be more active and they at least showed activity a month before I made my order. I don't think it's particularly smart to make purchases off PrinceTT considering their prices aren't much better than Aliexpress after shipping is added...