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Hey NL no mercy in this dojo!! Glue em n beat em up!! 😎best of luck tomorrow!!

I’m gonna say you have to try a set up during practice and matches. Also try in direct comparison on your current blade. If you don’t want to mess around your current set up then buy another one of your current blade, and use this for trials - ie if you are using the same rubber on both wings...

Yes, yes, yes that BTY feeling!!! Spring sponge and spring sponge X for me it’s like Marmite (Vegemite or similar yeast based spread) it’s a love or hate thing!!!!!!! But check my latest posy on Z03!!!

The sheet of Zyre 03 arrived yesterday, and I glued it onto my SDC Primorac all wood clone. On the FH. BH is Xiom Omega 8 China. Over the last few years I have tested T05, T19, T80FX, D09C, Glayzer, Glayzer 09C. I played with both the Glayzer’s in matches for a couple of months, but the...

It's interesting that Mr Bryant has been working with Duda and Duda's form is looking pretty good. At that level ALL aspects of your game need to be at peak levels.

One thing to mention is that a 38mm ball with 200 rpm has less spin potential than the 40+mm ball with 200rpm. That extra bit of circumference length means the surface of the ball has more energy/moves faster. Probably small differences, whether it's relevant? That said, if the sponge...

True, but it depends how far you want to go with your serves!! Craig Bryant aka the service guy has taken his serves to the next level !!

People definitely don’t practice serves enough, myself included these days!! for 1 serve form people don’t practice serves enough, myself included these days!! just take 1 serve form, FH pendulum, short - under, top and no spin, add positioning rh,centre & left so just for a short back spin...

Tennis is tour based basically, like golf. Badminton, at least in the uk is club orientated firstly, with progression to County level (district) and then the national squad. Players that turn Pro usually play for an overseas club and they can play the tour events as well. Not sure how the...

Yep, thinner top sheets are also present in the likes of R53,:helps give a softer feeling as well.

My EJing has kicked in!! I have a sheet arriving tomorrow!!

Tennis, ITF tour 600 tournaments across 70 nations ( lower ranking tour to progress to ATP Challenger Tour ) ATP challenger tour over 200 events available!! ATP tour 59 tournaments across 29 countries Badminton - WBF - national ‘open’ events - 27, these are the ones the top pros will look to...

Thats what the players thought, from what Igor wrote the general consensus was thicker sponges were not to their liking. ITTF were experimenting with thicker sponges, perhaps manufacturers had approached them to allow an overall thicker topsheet/sponge thickness? with BTY Zyre the pimple length...

Tough schedule. What with the training required, travel and competition, you can see why players are tired and the likelihood of injury is higher. These days, that’s pretty normal for the majority of many different sports.

How many events are ‘compulsory’ these days?

Yeah, having a number of different serve actions, WITH the spin variations and CONTROL can be very advantageous!! Sometimes you meet a player that can handle your ‘regular’ serves. Perhaps the 2 forms you may generally use. Last season I had a tight 5 set match against a higher ranked player...

I have at least 10, that’s only counting what’s in my bag!! My current 2 set ups that I use for matches and coaching are SDC blades, one has O8 China both sides and the other O8 Hybrid (fh) and O8 China (bh). These are backed up with 2 SDC blades with Tau2 both sides, these were my preferred...

Carbon blades, inner or outer don’t necessarily have to be fast, sure they are usually faster than all wood, but one of the main reasons carbon and then the newer fibres are used is the increase in the size of the sweet spot. The many types of wood that are available, combined with different...

Yonex do or did some badminton shoes for wide feet, these are also suitable for Table Tennis so you could check the Yonex web site.

GT (and the other ‘identical’ rubbers by other brands), was a great rubber, especially for the long lasting tackiness. Shame it was discontinued. Mind you, I don’t think I would be using it today!! If the manufacturing process to get this level of tackiness involves larger quantities of...