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All Gewo equipment I’ve held was fine; a limited experience, though. But it included excellent allround blades, suitable for anything and with good finishing quality. I’ve held and liked Thunderball2 and Nanoflex FT45 rubbers, and the Nexxis EL Pro - don’t recall its hardness. And I’ve...

Thick reinforced core of springy balsa, thick Kiso Hinoki outers, heavy oomph underneath - what were you trying to magnify? A sturdier approximation of a single ply 9mm Hinoki blade on drugs? Which mere mortal can handle such a beastly contraption?

John Hilton used anti on one side, inverted on the other. He twiddled heavily, and often stamped his feet when hitting the ball, masking the sound of the hit. I've seen him play in the early 80s, shortly after he won the European title. Most if not all of his opponents had learned to play him by...

We've used XSF, and also experienced their relative fragility. Looking for alternatives, we first tried a few batches (a dozen boxes or so) of the DHS D40+ ball (the one with Ding Ning on the box). Consistency was not all that; a sizeable portion felt as mushy as a deflated balloon. Then we...

I’d say the Fastarcs deserve a mention.

Beheaded? How so?

Mend them with love and care.

Here's where ye olde fartes like me would mention Dragutin Šurbek and Jean-Philippe Gatien. In modern players, I rather like Kristian Karlssons's strokes.

Well, with that head size there’ll be quite a bit more rubber needed to cover it.

You assess an incoming ball, pick your choice in how you’re going to act, move into position, execute your chosen stroke — and reset, i.e. return to neutral position.

This sure makes TTD feel like it’s been abandoned.

How did oil work out?

It’s an excellent blade for those that can handle it, which is the empty set. I’ve known somebody that played it. With MX-P, to add insult to injury. He developed a very cautious game of frightened little pushes and blocks. At some point somebody lent him a more regular rocket launcher, a Boll...

I've wondered on more than one occasion, seeing the sometimes strange discrepancies in size comparison charts, why stuff like shoe size isn't just simply expressed as a plain length unit. It's pretty easy to to determine your feet's dimensions. All you need is a simple ruler or tapeline; yet I...

A club member plays with it; a youngster lured to the sport by the Pongfinity channel. So he came to the club with a Pongfinity setup. Power to him and his peers, I say, and kudos for Pongfinity for inspiring the curious in a generation of device dwellers! The blade plays well, and it’s a...

Did it really peter out, or did you just get used to it? As for my humble €.02, life's too short for shenanigans like boosting, and hence steer clear of rubbers that "require" (re)boosting.

I like the Clipper and I cannot lie, but I have no first-hand experience with OP"s selection. I also like the Samsonov Force Pro. Other 7-ply blades that I've liked are the Andro Gauzy SL OFF (which is a bit faster than the Clipper imho) and the DHS Power G7. However, OP made a "big hands"...

And to be a little less uninformative, YES you can, or may be able to, see the ball spinning, but the fact that it spins does not help much. What you need to know is how much it spins, and in what way -- in what direction, and relative to which of the three planes it does so to what extent.

Right, no.

Reading spin is one of the harder parts. People can, though, but I don't think it's done by tracking the motions of the ball print. I think it's done by reading the speed and flight curve of the ball. Of course, without spin gravity along with deceleration due to air friction would solely...