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I will assume that the OP knows her child and that she is happy playing pingpong the amount that she is playing (that is not a lot), as he did not ask how to motivate her, and I wouldn't sidetrack on the original question on personal pre-suppositions. He also specified English is not his...

The same I have explained already more than once in this topic that has become a jungle. No H3 as a beginner either (unless you have a systemic training background like the chinese and some other very selected people do). I don't know softer hurricanes (37-38) so I'd try them before putting them...

It is just plain common sense, and despite all the nuances of the 9 pages written on this thread, it remains plain and simple common sense in the grand majority of cases.

All this discussion did was to make me want to throw to the bin my Butterfly boycott and try Dignics 09C on my backhand. Or should I just directly try Zyre? @Gozo Calderano you decide for me. Then someone find me a place where I can buy a new Dignics or Zyre for 50 euros (and get it delivered to...

I feel like everyone's going very deep into the rabbit hole. I would not recommend any hard rubber (over 47 degrees ESN scale let's say) for beginners (first 1-2 years of playing), neither h3 nor D09C. Possibly a softer version of H3 and only for kids who train extensively, but honestly, here...

I don't really know how Zyre play as I have only tried it for literally 30 seconds. But if your level is what you say it is, it is my opinion that most probably (remember I don't know you nor have I seen you playing) what this rubber gives you is comparatively less from what it takes from you...

I think there are some misconceptions there. Spin is extremely important at all levels. And it doesn't really matter if you know everyone's spin level (likewise it doesn't matter if you know everyone's speed level). What matters is that different people have different styles, and while some...

I have been quite impressed by the French Team, they have definitely arrived on the world stage with a lot of very strong contenders, 10 in the top 100 WTT list at the moment: Lebrun brothers (n.6 and n.14), Gauzy (n.16), Poret (n.25), Coton (n.28), Seyfried (n.47), Bardet (n.48), De Nodrest...

I am happy when I find an opponent with pimples (medium - long better, I think short are much trickier). I mix mainly 4 serves: long serves with a lot of backspin and with no-spin to their short pimples, short serves with a lot of backspin or with no-spin to their short/wide forehand. I then...

I have never tried d09C as I've never felt comfortable with butterfly products (I tried tenergy for a couple of months many years ago when it was all the rage and absolutely hated it - on hindsight I probably should have tried T05 hard as I found T05 to be much too soft for me) and I don't like...

I think this observation can be made for literally every differently named rubber in the world, there are surely hundreds, probably thousands of rubbers. How many of them are really the same or very slightly modified as many others? 90%, and I am being generous.

I have always had all my blades varnished directly from the stores that sell them, and in this case I bought a second hand W968 here from the forum that was already varnished, so I wouldn't really know how they play unvarnished, I don't think it's worth it for me as they'd become ruined real soon.

Even if a bubble appears on it tomorrow I am more than satisfied with how long it lasted, and especially with the fact that it retained all the characteristics I love for the whole time: serve and receive are still amazingly tight and spinny, it has an amazing arc when opening up half-long...

It's now been 2 full months I have played with it on my forehand, more or less 150 hours of active training and sanctioned matches play. I have boosted it with 2 (later I realized very thin) layers of Haifu National Yellow booster at the beginning and glued it with 3 layers of DHS 15. I have...

I think you are confusing variation with "enough backspin to make an opponent hesitate" and that you are chasing a chimera. The pro players you see do not make their opponent hesitate by chopping heavily a no-spin ball (because it is impossible with a long pimple), they make the opponent...

In my opinion that hard sideswipe motion works very well on an incoming backspin ball, not a no-spin. No-spin balls are notoriously long pimples (and any rubber that can't produce spin on their own) Achille's heel. Now, a long pimple with sponge that doesn't reverse too much (like Feing Long)...

Putting heavy backspin on a incoming no-spin ball with long pimples is simply impossible, because it would mean they are capable of producing heavy rotation, which is exactly the opposite of what they are built for. Now, with some grippy pimples (like Feint Long III that I have used for a while...

To train more you need to use more rubbers which you then conveniently have to buy at double/triple the price. A snake that bites its own tail. By the way, if it was for me I would liberalize also frictionless pimples.

That's a fair point. Then what about a rule that allows privates to do the same treatment that firms and companies that produce rubbers already do? After all it is already legal with the blades, that anyone can produce following certain guidelines. To my understanding, what H3 does is it gives...

I had never boosted before putting on an H3 provincial blue sponge a couple of months ago to try it. I have now played with it more than 100 hours and the rubber (that has been boosted and reboosted two times already) is still going strong and not giving any signs of wear and tear, I actually...