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Yes, that's impressive and a whole different level, compared to us mere mortals o_O I can only imagine the dedication.

I am not in a position to give any advice here, as I'm not your doctor. But, generally speaking, there are some very simple things that are worth to be aware of. Fat in itself is not a baddy, subcutaneous fat (located under our skin and usually spread over our torso, legs, arms etc) could be...

Sir, yes Sir! STFU and eat lard. I'll do my best. 🫡

All what I wrote is out there, it's a common knowledge and not a secret )) I am not a high performance athlete now, I'm much older than you. But I have good physique and decent lean muscle mass. But I don't even care to measure it these days. This is because I know how to regulate it quickly...

A burger is about 350 calories. This means you need to run about 3.5 miles to burn it. Having said all that, I can only stress that counting calories is just a waste of time. A calorie is an artificial measure which has nothing to do with human metabolic biochemistry. A Calorie (Cal) is a...

Calorie trackers are feel-good toys, hard to argue with that :)

In order to burn 2400 calories, you need to run 40 km or play 4 hours of a high-level competitive lawn tennis match, where you cover much more ground than with table tennis. Calorie trackers usually flatter to deceive and overestimate calorie burn by anywhere from 30 to 90 percent. The only...

However I try, I can never do it as neatly as the TT11 guy. Why is that I wonder, he's only done 10 thousand bats.

It might indeed be hardly noticeable if you don't compare it directly, but once you do and notice the difference, you can not unnotice it o_O I have 4 hinoki/carbon multilayer blades and one Soulspin spruce/carbon blade - all with the same rubber. I tried two more spruce/carbon blades from...

"Somewhat" is the key word here. Both spruce and hinoki are soft and have extended dwell, but similarities end here. Spruce dwell is, for lack of better description, is a dumbed down hinoki dwell :). Spruce is less reactive to incoming spin, but nowhere close to hinoki when it comes to...

Different FH and BH rubbers for a beginner/lower intermediate is not necessary. A middle-of-the-road 47.5 hardness rubber like Rakza 7 is not demanding and perfectly suitable for both BH and FH. Keep it simple at this stage. Playing Chinese Hurricane 3 and an ESN rubber like Rakza 7 on the same...

Update: Found the full 2024 catalogue: http://www.darker.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/webyoudata.pdf Looks like they retain 7P-2A.7t and 7P-2A.Carbon (they raised the price though). But many blades are missing, such as Darker Esteem or Aqua Selas ( and vendors confirmed they were not...

What happened to Darker? It appears that they have entirely redesigned/reduced their product line and are going through a major transition. Their marketing (who would have thought that Darker had any marketing) is full of transitional messages like "leap forward" and "aggressive orthodox...

Is D09 a dust magnet? Have you compared it to Rakza Z Extra Hard?

There is lots of good advice here. I would add: take care of your diet. You need a healthy diet in your case. Reduce sugar consumption to a minimum; eliminate it completely if you can. Diets are a controversial topic and a big can of worms, so I don't want to go into details here, but...

you're welcome, would be great to know how you liked it.

And I used 47.5 only. 50 will be pretty heavy I guess.

I bought a couple of GA8 from HWSPORT Store you mentioned, another 2 from GHSports store and 3 or 4 from China PingPong Store, all were good.

I can't recommend anything really as I haven't used many rubbers. All I know is a Fastarc G-1 which you are using, to me it was too slippery on a thin contact and I found it tricky to play with over the table when I needed to just brush over it. It's a kind of a tenacious drive-spin rubber where...

Z is the most popular rubber Rakza rubber. As for the graph, it's just a comparative trajectory illustration for spin vs speed. It doesn't mean that in real life your trajectory will be nessessary that high if you adjust your technique. I have had RZ on 5 different blades and I've learned that...