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Checking back after FZD beat WCQ in the China National Games lol

It's not a false dilemma at all. Say you have a very old racket and only have enough money to replace two rubbers or a blade, which one do you pick? Say you're buying a racket for the first time working with a limited budget, do you prioritize the quality of the rubbers or the blade?

Nobody doubted, was unaware, or needed Zhang Jike to tell us that blades and rubbers are both extremely important to professional players lol. Again, when Zhang Jike speaks about changing a blade and it taking time to get used to he is not referring to the question that this thread is...

This comment confirms that you don't have have the knowledge of pros and Olympians that you are pretending to. Thanks for removing any doubt.

Yeah sorry I really don't believe any former Olympic TT medalist is spending their retirement "rapidly cycling thru rackets" and playing doubles and casual singles against 2000 level players.

We aren't talking about testing and getting familiar with equipment, we're talking about whether rubber or blade affects overall paddle performance more. In your example about what Zhang Jike said, he is obviously talking about a scenario where someone is changing blades but still using rubbers...

Anders Lind is also on record saying that "rubber matters a lot more" than blade but I can't be bothered right now to go dig up where I saw it. People can believe me or not, I don't really care cause this thread has been given much more attention than it deserves lol.

Judging by the fact that you aren't even sure of what the equipment was or the condition it was in from your story, this story and your interpretation of his casual comment is pretty meaningless. But maybe you can go ask him the question that was posed in the OP and see if he is willing to go on...

Which Olympic medalist is this that is still competing in doubles and receiving coaching?

And that higher level blade that he wiped everyone off the table with had equally shitty rubber on it as the blade that he considered "dead"? Yes or no?

Yeah Truls is the odd man out on the Swedish team right now. Lots of things going on mostly stemming from coaching drama but also personal things behind closed doors.

Almost there man! So Viscaria+1960s rubbers or Clipper with Dignics? 10% difference right?

Fair enough, I'm not well versed on the history of the forum, just what I see from time to time. No doubt that the topic seems to be the dominant one nowadays maybe because there are both vocal supporters and detractors now.

Not nerves, all tactics. In game 5 Chen Yi smartly abandoned playing to the backhand half at all, when you force it into the middle straight away you know Lily will play move to play BH every time and when the middle moves, her inside forehand gets jammed and becomes very unreliable. Chen Yi...

You know that Azure is a cloud platform not an operating system right?

MLTT - women players are given sleeveless jerseys while men are not.

We've already agreed that being a reasonably high level table tennis player is required for what we are discussing - we are discussing what differentiates popularity among good table tennis players. The players in the bikini league were not good, nor was that league nearly as publicly known as...

Diaz and CIC have been promoted heavily in various forms of media. CIC especially in the wake of the Tokyo Olympic XD medal. They are also prominently featured on social media - Bobrow has done entire series with CIC, WTT/ITTF have done their share, among other social media influencers. CIC and...

If Chen Yi loses her match I'd be more shocked than any of the others but here's hoping lol