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Club, understandably so, has been a little slow during Covid but it's nice to still get to play. Here's a match from this last Sunday with a buddy. He has only been coming to club a few months and is still pretty new. Not bad forehand in practice actually. I sent him this video and we're going...

Pro I'd guess 22 - 28 or so. Certainly the ability to be very good before or after that. Amateur? Certainly you'll be in your athletic peek during that same timeframe but the real answer is that it's almost unlimited. I've seen too many good TT players in their 60s or up who can wipe the floor...

I agree. While I like tacky rubbers, so long as the grip is there, I don't fret too much over it as I've never had a 729 rubber stay nearly as tacky after X period of time as compared to when you first pull off that sticky sheet. I actually think 729 rubbers are not all that tacky. Now any...

Stop picking up hookers. :p :p :p

I can't obviously speak for everybody but I think there's an evolution you go through in your journey on this table tennis BB. Early on to mid in your time here - "Oh someone's asking a question. I'd like to share my thoughts." Late in your time here - "Hey another person with fewer than 5...

That's true. I know a guy who has a channel he wanted to showcase to Vietnamese people translating and showing how certain things are like in the US. He was looking into it, and man it's a lot of work you have to do and Youtube keeps taking more of the pie all the time. I think that's why so...

Well I would say that difficulty in reading spin will follow you whether you're playing SPs or Inverted but beyond that, I have a Clipper. It is indeed a very good SP blade. Nice & stiff & fast. As much as I like that blade, I personally like my Gambler Balsa Knight more. It's thick, very fast...

Carl I would definitely get the Butterfly Groovy Shoe. $124.99 Only those really serious about TT would get this shoe. https://bit.ly/2EOiUIy ;) I have a 6 yr old & 10 yr old. I've played with both of them before but I wouldn't say they have a burning desire to play TT. And I don't want to be...

Yeah if you're looking for Jpeners to watch for inspiration or teaching, you won't really get it on the pro circuit. Thankfully, you don't need to only learn form a top pro. There are players out there who play a variety of styles who are still very, very good and I would imagine would wipe the...

I've won 11-0 before a long time ago because I didn't know any better. Since then, any opportunities at that I'll look to lose a point at 9-0 or certainly 10-0. I think i've lost 0-11 a couple of times before. I honestly don't remember how many times. I think 2. Possibly 3 times before. The...

Gambler Balsa Knight Penhold 8.9mm thick. 6 plies Carbon on FH, Wood on BH. I really like this as a combo blade where i have inverted & LPs on it.

Had a chance to try out a new blade that I strangely enough won from Gambler in a contest. I've previously played with the Gambler Fire Dragon Fast as a penhold dual inverted blade. I've said for some time that blade has passed up my Clipper as probably my all time fav blade. We have a new...

Yeah here in the states my fav two places to order from is colesTT and/or Zeropong. I think for anybody not super advanced to know the nuances of the differences from rubber to rubber, it really doesn't matter all that much IMO. Euro rubber, chinese rubber. They play differently but you'd...

Could have been Taisei Matsushita. He plays Jpen & duel inverted. Plays at a really high level also. <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Taisei Matsushita"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">

I hope you're planning on cutting the cork way below that point. if you feel like your fingers must still rest on cork, I'm telling you now don't bother. When you factor in the the label of the rubber has to show, by the time you get to your hitting area, you have such little space left, it...

Sorry for double post. I think this best explains what I'm talking about in regards to the Jpen, tight grip around the cork on the FH. With Jpen. You hold your arm out to the side. Finger tightly around that cork, It'll look like this. Obviously against topspin you want to close that angle...

I agree. Yeah I'm in no rush and I'm perfectly fine with keeping it around also. But to your point, I completely agree. TPB? I love hooking my forefinger around the cork. But on FH? I find it awkward if I have my forefinger tightly around the neck. The angle of the bade then is...

I think you could be fine. And I guess nobody here can really say without seeing your FH stroke. I'd advise to go inverted / LPs over SP & LP for greater spin variation but what you're doing can work. Just depends on what your goals are. If you want to be good at the intermediate level? Sure...

I never really bought into it. But comparing side by side, I think there's something actually to that you hear carbon has an ever so slightly larger sweet spot. I think there's something to that. It's minor. Real minor. But I think it might actually be true. IDK. It's hard to say because in the...

Will probably be tough no matter what if you rarely, if ever get to practice vs it. You'll be fine so long as you're good at either spinning up either dead balls or backspin balls. I particularly like looping vs backspin so I enjoy playing LPers. It's the spin I like and the ball is slower so...