Recent content by oophyte

"XP looks down; the boss of the sponsor printed on his jersey is there across the table. Picks up his racket; the face printed on the handle is also there across the table" :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

He had a previous one explaining blades too. His concept for his website has a logical framework for analyzing equipment data. However, his input "data" is just lifted from manufacturers' marketing materials, which are better than nothing but hardly worth analyzing, especially for comparison...

3 things stood out to me during the MS finals: 1. Yellow card to Alexis seemingly for delaying the game when Felix was ready to serve. Did the umpire get swept up in these 2 brothers' famously fast tempo between points? Alexis probably would've been given some slack if it wasn't Felix across...

Previous generation BDs were semi-tacky and fast. Would you say that it is a departure from that and more aligned with the H3 niche?

While most agree that the topsheet of H3 today is way less tacky that the original, its sponge, especially the #22, is still the epitome of high density Chinese sponges. If you call H3 a hybrid, then what's left to represent traditional hard sponges? :ROFLMAO:

I guess we shouldn't have doubted the man nicknamed 梁满局 (Mr. Decider Liang)

Did anyone else feel like LJK vs Tomokazu was more like the women's TT than men's? 80% of it was BH to BH and both sides stuck close to the table. I get that the peak meta in the modern game seems to centre around varying between the opponent's BH corner and middle, but these 2 really take it to...

Well, on the upside, yours cost almost 1/3 of mine!

Very interesting! The fact that you don't have to sand the shoulders sounds too good to be true. I've had a permanent callus on my index finger for the last 2 decades due to playing penhold. However, if Sanwei achieves this by adding more horizontal wood padding, those extra materials might add...

I've heard in reviews that, for the all wood variant, there are 2 versions. The purple handle version with a thinner handle is more intended for younger players with smaller hands. The regular sized all wood variant is probably sold out too.

Spin is a big part, but when I think of consistency achieved through spin, it's Xu Xin that comes to mind: running around 3 m from the table and counter looping everything by contacting the ball way late into the descending phase. XX is like the physical avatar of the magnus effect. On the...

(Don't ask me for a source, I'm supposed to be at work!) I think the CNT coach Qin Zhijian has said in an interview in the past that FZD's specialty is getting one more back on the table than the other guy. Obviously his quality is far from passive. In fact, other former CNT players describe...

I don't know what you consider modern Cpen, but my grip from the picture about doesn't look much different from Xu Xin's.

OK, been playing with it for 3 days. 1 day with return board, then 2 days with a partner. Here are my experiences so far. I will focus on the handle, as the performance of the blade itself is not the main topic. Both rubbers are new to me as well, so a comparison of blade performance wouldn't be...

I'm curious: For what grip do you think this would be bad?