Recent content by Milan Nemec

As much as I like RSM and his game, I am very sceptical - he would be TOP50, but IMO he would not make it into TOP20. There are simple reasons: 1. His serve would not be as spinny with the plastic ball, combine that with the banana and strawberry BH-Flicks of today and he would not be let to...

Suga D, you are missing one point - however good or bad Butterfly rubbers are - they are way overpriced. Not because Butterfly is that great, but because there are freaks who will pay any price for them. Point. If Butterfly will manage to sell a sheet of Tenergy for 60 EUR, ESN will sell for...

I happen to play a Butterfly Gionis Carbon Off blade and am partly ashamed of it. I hate the Butterfly rip-off on rubbers and will not buy a Butterfly rubber for a premium=nice way of saying fuc... expensive price whatsoever. I do not even think that the Tenergies are anything special - I once...

So you got 5 hours x 30 days = under 150 hours absolute maximum from Tenergy and 2-3 months = 375 hours from aurus? WOW.

Modern inverted rubbers deteriorate even if you do not play them - they often are pretuned in some way - so even if you play only one a week - the rubber will not last a year at its peak or at least good performance.

yeah, the durability has really gone down - I could use a Tibhar Torpedo for a whole year during fresh-glue era, now it is two months with the modern rubbers... I am thinking of Z1 Turbo and Golden Tango PS as my next buys. I have checked the Z1 again - the topsheet looks really bad, but it...

Hi, I have checked the Omega VII rubbers and they are 12 EUR more expensive than Bluestorm Z1 per sheet, which I can get for 31 EUR, so OVII needs to last 1/3 longer to have the same price/value proposition and is not really worth a try. But there is a certain Vega Tour at 34 EUR which might be...

Hi folks, I bought a sheet of Donic Bluestorm Z1 and after 2 months or 40 hours of play it is quite strongly worn out. Are all of these new rubbers so bad or is there something more durable that I could buy??? The main problem is the TOPSHEET. Yes, the rubber shrunk somewhat - factory tuning...

Hi folks, I am experimenting with sticky rubbers again - Vega China on Gionis Carbon Off, BH Milli Tall II. I am looking for a blade that would support the sticky rubber better - I have been told LongV and similar very expensive stuff, maybe avalox P500 which is OK regarding price. Are there...

Ton of spin, variation and creativity: That is nice, but there is only one style of play competitive at the top level - two-sided topspin attack with short movements close to the table, with BH-banana flick opening. BH-dominant. Even a Ma Long has to play more BH that FH. Everything else is...

What is wrong with your set-up??? General advice would be - the fastest setup with which you can still defend safely as modern defence is a preparation for attack. You could change the pip for a p1r or FLIII in cca. 1.0 to try something for pure chopping but you absolutely need a good forhand...

You can get soma Yasaka, DHS or Donic under 40 USD so I would try one of those mainstream blades in Cpen form

My two cents: Shortish pure backspin is most difficult to attack - the opponent is likely to push - you can open up But it is easy to drop short and get you into passive position if the opponent reads it correctly = you need different levels of backspin and a no-spin variation which all look...

Larger means more safety=margin for error as you simply have "more racket", especially when you topspin or chop = when you open or close the rackethead. So theoretically it is great, but: Larger means heavier, especially with heavy modern rubbers. Heavier means more power if you can accelerate...

5 out of 5 rating for Large Ace R Adding my own description as I cannot read Japanese and want to review it. STYLE: two-sided Jpen with rounded head FINISH and APPEARANCE: excellent - an attractive red & thin JPen handle out of wood - looks great & will not get dirty/deteriorate as cork does...