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I play in Madrid CTM! I have come back to this beautiful sport 3 years ago and our club has grown exponentially in the last few years :D . I certainly know people from the Collado Mediano club, actually their best young Spanish player who was playing superliga there a couple of years ago is now...

I am Italian but I live in Madrid, Spain, and I think we are the biggest club (in terms of numbers of players) in Spain, I wouldn't say it's normal, even if I'm quite sure all the medium-big clubs in the region have at least one coach. My club structure is similar to yours if bigger: 5...

Fluctuations in play level cannot be battled, only accepted, they accompany every athlete and every sport practitioner. If winning in competition is what you want, you have to find ways to win even when you don't feel great, mainly focusing solely on what to do on the next point. If getting...

Please notice that all those high level players (and the 20-30 after them too) just choose rubbers for themselves. Hybrids are just not what they choose in accordance to their playstyles.

Many questions, I'll try to answer them: When I say "if they have fun with it, they'll get better with it." I mean that I believe through personal enjoyment (however they personally want to measure that, it's subjective) they bring more will to training and playing which is what ultimately gets...

I like this discussion and I find a lot of good pointers in everyone who is posting. I absolutely agree that every case is different and should be treated differently. In my experience as a coach in my club (200 + people of all levels) I would say the majority of people (not all of them, the...

Back in the days when I was first starting I really liked watching Chen Qi, Wang Liqin, Werner Schlager, Joo se Hyuk, Michael Maze, an up and coming and already incredible Ma Long. I would say right now Wang Chuqin has an incredible game, Anders Lind and Moregard who keep games very interesting...

Ah sorry I explained myself badly. I am not suggesting of course that any equipment will make you beat significantly better skill level players, as that would be delusional. I was only confessing to my dirty pleasure in that instance. What I was suggesting with our kids example is that this...

The power of Butterfly's marketing policies is unbelievable. The message is very in line with the times: the more you spend the better player you are. Then a real player comes and beats them with a phone (I am thinking Anders Lind). I confess I feel a subtle pleasure when I encounter beginners...

Another update on my H3 journey: The last boost application on my blue sponge provincial (1st re-boost, took off the rubber and the glue, applied one generous amount of booster, waited 12 hours, glued again - it didn't dome much but it expanded and recovered the original size) played well on...

It's very hard to point out what makes him have a strong "matchplay" without seeing him play said match (-es). And even if his technique is not very beautiful it seems serviceable. I remember strong top 50 players in the world with relatively bad looking technique but that was still functional...

This is the normal commercial version, very over-priced. You can find it for half the price on ali express. Or if you want to stay on a european store, here it costs much less...

Try the G-1 on backhand since you have it there to try already. Why - what do you want to get from a rubber change? Those rubbers are perfectly fine up to a very very high amateur level that only the top 5% of every country get to. Now knowing that, it is perfectly fine to have fun with...

Also remember that if it really is unpredictable, by definition, it's unpredictable for them too. It does not really help them, it just plays on surprise and upsetting you. If you stay calm and analyze the game and points you will soon find out that those rubbers strongly limit who uses them...

You cannot be certain. The only thing you can do is to get over it and/or use it as fuel to beat them.

Disclaimer! I dislike butterfly and their price policies and this is a very short and sweet story of me playing against someone with zyre for the first time. It was a tournament and my opponent is quite lower ranked than me (maybe around 2100 USATT?), but not so much that I should utterly...

Update: I have played a singles tournament with it yesterday, and all the previous characteristics are confirmed, especially the fact that it is slow even compared to J1, which I find to be already slower than other hybrids I have tried. It is a very close battle in my mind if keeping on going...

Here we are, I have now tried the H3 Provincial blue sponge for a week. I have put it on the W968 that I bought here on the forum, so some words on the W968 as well. It is definitely a bit more rigid than the commercial Long 5s I was using before but it is really not that different. Backhand...

From what you wrote, I would lean more on an inner than an outer, but keep in mind that I am surely a bit biased as I don't really like outers, to me they have no feeling. I also think feeling is subjective. I am a power player who has always played with flexible blades and hard to very hard...

I know you'll hate this comment and as an EJ I get it but: choose a wood that you can try before you buy (or that you can re-sell, or that you can gift if you're rich and don't really care :LOL:). If you're lucky enough to find someone who has played long enough with both of those very specific...