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Butterfly x Minion collaboration in June. The sceptic in me believes Butterfly has a shitload of excess koto wood inventory and this is a pretty ingenious solution to clear. If there wasn’t the serial number printing, they could have potentially just put new handles onto older inventories of...

I’ve been quite unlucky recently where I arrive at the training hall and I’m the odd number. I feel bad as there are a select few members that are really considerate and after 5-10mins feel the need to give up their place. I do the same thing too if I’ve been on the table long enough. Are...

~2012 Vega China VM 54 deg ESN ~2019 Rakza Z EH 52-57 deg ESN - 2020 Butterfly Aibiss (discontinued) 50 deg Bty ~64 deg ESN!

For me mentally strong is being able to stay disciplined, thinking logically and having the courage to play the risky but right shot under duress. I’m curious to know how you will conclude your assignment? Are you providing a summary of lessons learnt or for example suggesting ways to deal...

Yes Feint Long III is one of the slower LPs around. And apart from saying “it just is… stamps foot, I’ve played with it, grrr” I will give my explanation as to why: Due to its grip and the fact you can generate your own moderate backspin, you can control and slow the ball down during service...

Please start with either Defplay Senso or Victas Koji Matsushita. Spin = Defplay. Though expect some random pop ups until you master it from your current beginner level after a year or two. Pick between 80-85g. Chopping stability = Koji. Expect your attacking ability to be weaker and somewhat...

There are a grippier type of long pimples that you can push with great control and create somewhat of your own moderate to moderate-heavy backspin close to the table without much of a technique change from inverted. It simplifies the short game which would be helpful to you especially if you...

Starting with women’s. Unsurprisingly it’s complete domination from China with the half exception of Chen Jing who defected away. 10. Liu Shiwen 9. Chen Meng 8. Qiao Hong 7. Chen Jing 6. Li Xiaoxia 5. Sun Yingsha 4. Ding Ning 3. Wang Nan 2. Zhang Yining 1. Deng Yaping For Men’s. Honourable...

A major hot take, under previous leadership ITTF without even a sports betting influence was one of the most corrupt and greedy organising bodies, behind only FIFA under Sepp Blatter. The money that is available resides in the hands of the very few. The more I think about it, the more the...

But that’s my point, the supply is being purposely suppressed by manufacturers by not catering at all to defenders. How many years have modern defenders asked for a faithful re-release of Butterfly Joo Sae Hyuk when the majority of the best defenders in the world were using that blade? And...

Does anyone else get the feeling there is a concerted push (with a helpful hand from the major TT manufacturers) to try to discourage defensive styles? As this subset does not generate as many $$$ overall to ITTF/manufacturers/retailers as equipment catered to the double inverted attacking...

And yet baseball has a problem with athletes cheating with the use of performance enhancing drugs 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_baseball

This is world we live in now, people unable to address their own shortcomings, so look to blame externally instead of improving themselves. “A clever person takes notice of everything; a stupid one makes a comment about everything” -Heinrich Heine

On the flip side why not ban composite fibers and just allow all wooden blades like in the good ol days?