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With an answer like this", no one should take you seriously; please stop, you make no sense. I was hoping I get more objective suggestions, for example, a personal experience based advice from @z0uLess and @ZFT Thank you, that helps. I've one more match in this season and to avoid surprises, I...

I've been playing with my current setup; Jonyer Hinoki with Rasanter c48 on Forehand and Hexergrip on Backhand for sometime and recently noticed that I can generate considerably more spin if I replace my current blade (Jonyer Hinoki) to some all wood blade. The allwood blade that I tried was...

I've been playing with my current setup (Jonyer Hinoki, Rasanter c48 on FH and Hexergrip on BH) for past three months and I am very very happy with this setup. The feeling and control is undoubtable the best so far. I've been playing at a local club and play competition (Dutch NTTB class 4 now)...

Few weeks back, went to my local TT store to buy rubbers and neither Fastarc G-1 (FH) nor Aurus soft (BH) was available. However the coach there suggested me to try Andro Rasanter C-48 on FH and and Rasanter Hexer powergrip on BH, both with medium thickness. Powergrip was still not available so...

Thank you @Mk73 Looks like the Aurus Soft might not be good choice for this blade as many people mention that a soft rubber on Hinoki blade gives a mushy feeling. So I thought of purchasing again a new set of Neottec X-5M but unfortunately it’s not available at our local store. Can you recommend...

Sticky rubber is a bad choice when you don’t have a proper coach to train you, and/or you are just a delusional Joe in 40s. A tacky rubber requires a lot of effort and precision, which most of amateurs including me don’t have because many of us are just hobby/ weekend players. So a word of...

Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences and suggestions. To be honest I got little confused after reading mixed opinions on hinoki blades, so I was under dilemma whether to pick the darker 7p-2A, or the septear or no Hinoki (because I was not sure if I’ll like the feel) and instead just...

Be careful what you wish for :) You can never get rid of that blade even if you don't like it :D

Hi WingTT, I have played with Hurricane 3 Neo for almost two years, and I find it very very demanding. Also Slowness is not the main characteristic of Hurricane rubbers.

Prologue Sometime back I switched from a very fast setup to a slow one and the results have been good so far. My win rate in tournament has improved to 67%. Compared to the last season (Dutch NTTB class 5) where my win rate was 62%, this season at one level higher (class 4), it is currently 67%...

Great quality 30 Balls for only 17.5 Euros!!! Wish I was already in India at this time :) BTW, I've no association with STAG and with Flipkart (Another major E-commerce company in India)...

There is something wrong, with their official site (Pictures are not getting rendered) however, they sell it through Amazon and some other local e-commerce site and I think it was this one: https://www.amazon.in/Stag-Two-Star-Plastic-Tennis/dp/B077GQGL63

I recently attended a workshop in Netherlands, where they used STAG balls from India for practicing. I really liked those. In my opinion those were far better than many other practice balls, such as TIBHAR Basic 40+ and cheap Chinese ones. The workshop had some very high level players and I...

Because, you mentioned that you are considering, "Stiga all round classic", I would say, instead try "Neottec Voodoo Classic". 20 Euros cheaper than the Stiga and I feel that it is in every way superior than the Stiga allround. I own both these blades and have played long enough with both of...

I know this is far fetching, but I think that LGY or perhaps his coach's career at the international level is over. Also, I don't understand, what is going on with Liang Jingkun.

Last Saturday I went for a small one day tournament with my current slow setup. This was my first competition after switching back to slow setup and I am very happy with the outcome. I was playing a lot more freely without the fear (most of the time) of hitting the ball out of the table and...

I'm currently using Neottec X5-M on my backhand with medium thickness (1.9 mm) on a 5-ply wood blade. I like it a lot. I think it's not so spin sensitive, it is grippy enough, not bouncy and is very easy to play with. This allows me to change the direction of the ball during rally with relative...

At our club, one coach told us that if you don't practice 1000 hours in a year, you should not go for a fast setup. He himself has never used a fast setup. I totally agree with him, I myself made a big mistake of going with a fast setup (Viscaria + Tenergy and Dignics rubber combos) at a...

I've been thinking of getting myself a robot to practice against time to time (say about 2 hours a week and I know that a proper coaching and playing with humans is more important, and there are disadvantages too with playing against robot, I know that, and I do play at a club about 3 hours a...

It seems that both Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin changed their TT bat for this tournament. If I'm not mistaken, until very recently, during World championship 2021, both were using Viscaria. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know, what they have switched to now ? Apologies if this has been...