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Just came across the DHS PF4 on sale on AliExpress and bought two with "mid" hardness. These are definitely as sticky as the old PK50 and have an even bigger dampening effect. In direct comparison to the h8-80 '39 the PF4 was more sticky and I could generate more spin on it with my backhand. I...

that is actually the way i do it. i always applaud the opponent on strong balls or if their ball goes out i tell them "wow, if that one would have hit the table i would not been able to reach it" to make them feel good.

You will find many grandpas with illegal/worn out rubbers that play like unpredictable anti rubbers. I had even one where the rubber was totally gone at the place where the thumb would rest on the forehand. i had a guy give up in the third set after i played short serves wide into his backhand...

You are worrying about stuff that will not be in your control anyways. In the lowest leagues yes most serves will be faulty, but not because the opponent learned how to hide the ball but rather by them not throwing the ball up at all and serving straight out of the hand. Its their own fault...

it's hard to get much more spin from simply exchanging the rubbers and not adjusting technique as well if you are coming from a G-1/C-1 combination. The most easy to test would be to test the G-1 on your backhand and see if you are capable to handle it. If you are not, then there is no need to...

Your general stance is to upwards/straight basically all the time. Bend your legs/knees more and lean a little more forward to actually stand on the front of your feet. If your knees are not bend like in this picture you have no lateral movement ability and hitting the ball below your belly...

having your right foot a little infront or left foot a little back will make your looping with backhand more natural, but make sure you dont overexaggerate it, because the next ball to the wide forehand will be very difficult to catch. If you are comfortable with the short backhand push...

I thought the wave drive 9 were for wider feet. Your shoe looks exaggeratedly tightened.. Perhaps this shoe is not for your feet

iiirc you can not correctly even read data with your durometer because the specification says that the material has to be at least 6mm thick or something, so whatever you are reading is including the topsheet and the underlying surface.

Dont change rubbers and blade at the same time. Use the same rubbers on it to be properly to evaluate the changes.

for this to be true the rubber would need to have some tangential catapult builtin, which is not true. The same as a ball shot with a slingshot can never fly faster than what the elastic bands you "loaded"/pulled generate. After leaving the slingshot the speed only decreases. It is the same...

You winning or competing in training matches against a 2000 rating player does not make you of similar rating. Higher level players will of course use the opportunity to test new techniques or tactics that they lack practice in against lower players like you. This will probably lead to many...

if you have the same feeling with Acoustic and an outer ALC then the issue is not the blade but you not having developed any feeling at all. you better stay for at least for 6 month with the Acoustic to get a base feeling for it. Don't bother changing something faster, if you dont even feel the...

>2100 TTR usually

i just found something uplifting. Somebody beating Naplokov even though that dude would have lost against 90% of the higher rated players that Naplokov slayed recently. This is Francesco Maragioglio from TTC Oggersheim (Germany). He is above 40 already and plays short pips on his backhand...

of course he does. Butterfly would generate revenue from their rubbers (regardless if one sticks with the same one or changes them) periodically anyways, but having the people also switch blades is much more lucrative for them.

which is very odd that something that can be checked much easier by the players themselves (like bat & rubber thickness) would be found more often than something dubious like treated pimples these statements can be true all by themselves. you are putting them together in the same context, but...

with your style of power first and spin second you probably have less issues with these on your level i woud assume.

thank you, Tony. i find it odd that most of them are simply too thick rubbers and none actually mention friction. is that even tested or are the tools simply to sparse so that this will not be tested.

i think it is very bold to say that such a high level player like andreas should simply "learn the game" (against pips-out or whatever). Nie does not need to score the points with his LP side, if he simply forces Levenenko to loop a ball too high with it, so that he can finish it with a smash of...