Recent content by IB66

There are a few things a serve can be called 'foul' for in badminton. If a serve was blatantly foul, it would be called, borderline was generally similar to TT - suck it up- because it's harder to really get an advantage. Badminton react pretty quickly to serves that give an unfair advantage...

Hi Tony, A European player MUST play 4 events minimum, is this the same for Chinese, Japanese, Korean players? Are there other minimum restrictions regarding the number of events to be played?

out of interest, any TTDers actually go to the final? anyone pay to watch the final on TV or Media platform?

I had no problem with the 'noisy' audience, adds to the atmosphere!!

No money left my account, therefore it is free. you get to watch the ad's for free as well. !!! Ad's are an annoyance, for sure, it's a small 'price' to pay, but the cost is not monetary to the viewer !!!

Take yesterday’s World Cup Finals, I watched it for free on YouTube via the WTT live stream. Perhaps, I’m in the wrong for watching for free?? How many of us watched for free?? How many of us would pay to watch the finals ‘live’ ? How many did pay to watch live on TV? How much are we prepared...

I wondered how long it would take them to ban it!! 'spin made it too difficult to return' bout time ITTF banned spin, revoked 'frictionless' rule and banned any rubber that isn't frictionless!!!!!

(out of the pack) the sheets I have hold the ball for longer. the majority of tacky rubbers lose some of their tackiness.

Winning G-Wave 120 and 80, the figure in the name is related to the amount of tackiness the rubber has. 120 being very tacky, 80 is less tacky. G-Wave 120 has as much if not more tackiness as Sanwei Target National (out of the pack), G-Wave 80 about the same as Rakza Z or Loki Arthur China...

LGY does have a history of losing, that’s a fair comment!! But how many times have we played matches, been 0-2 down and then come back and won 3-2, how many times been up 2-0 up and lost 2-3?? Did we choke? Did the opponent choke? Or did we or the opponent ‘up their game’?

Is that loss of form dynamics? Or did ML feel that the best option was to get the ball back without needing to use his body for power, more a case of controlling the fast rallies. Many of the points ML seemed to be waiting, ready to get a ball that he could play a higher quality shot with...

A great game by Ma Long, did Lin choke?? Personally I don’t think so, when you see Ma Long start to serve BH you know he is struggling, he had to change something. ML’s BH serve changed the dynamics of the points and his confidence rose. Lin could have changed his serve or another part of the...

I can’t comment from personal use, but We bought the Fire version for one of our junior players, he used it for a full season of Match play and training. He has good technique, produces high spin and enough speed. The durability in general is good, top sheet had retained its grip, quite a bit of...

To start - Money talks and bullshit walks - Period. How money ‘talks’ how it’s used, structured, is a different thing. Another issue is Club or Individual. This appears to be one of the main issues facing the top players at the moment. Playing for a club is their bread and butter, playing the...

Payments in general ‘business’ can be hit and miss, I work in the construction sector, and there are always issues with payments being made, arguing about the figures etc, paperwork being correct etc. BUT if sub-contractors don’t get paid they REFUSE to price new jobs for a ‘problem’ company and...