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Doesn't DHS force that they play with DHS on the forehand and Butterfly forces them to play with only Butterfly equipment...hence why Dima plays with the modern Butterfly setup?

Never realised you can mix glues.... mind-blowing!!

I am certain players names are not on rubbers because of royalties profits for the company more then anything else. I am confident the pros play with the rubbers the sponsors tell them to play with....

Says a lot about you. He had given his blade to a younger player for a tournament. It is called being a good person and helping out the next generation by getting involved.

That is good to learn and makes sense to what I am seeing with these top players and coaches. I laughed about the hobby player....I just pictured all the players I know who have a bad tournament and they immediately start talking about changing their setup. It is so true.

That is good advice. It took me a bit to get used to DHS 15 as it dries quickly.

That is the impression I have got. They adjust to the rubber quickly. I note we mere mortal players talk a lot about rubbers, while the top players don't. This also just made me realise they also have their names on blades, but not really on rubbers.

This chat had moved away from just the difference and went to pure performance. Need a good blade to get the optimal performance. I am not in a position to name them, given that it is a private chat and they are very private. I would be doing the wrong thing. I am not sure about the rubber, as...

The 09C is a lot harder to play with than the G1. A lot less forgiving, and you need to put a lot more effort into your shots. But if you can manage the spin sensitivity and have the strength (racket speed), it is a very dangerous rubber.

I use DHS 15. I have bought a Butterfly blade that was set up for me. Zero issues with the glue, but it was a lot more difficult to remove, which risks damaging your blade when you change rubbers. The DHS 15 is easy to remove, and I have never had any issues with it. Being that it is your first...

I think Glayzer so intermediate rubbers. But I am more making note that he didn't seem to care what the rubbers are.

S This conversation has come about regarding performance and as you say, his level would still be impacted and he is playing against other advance level players in the 2000s so that impact does seem to matter. I did watch him beat a player using his phone...that was entertaining to watch and...

Yes the person is the greatest issue. But the people who I am playing with do not agree about feel and the coaches do lots and lots of feel drills. As I said earlier, doubles partner was using another person's blade that had a dead feel and his game dropped dramatically. Comment was...no feel in...

I am going to continue to listen to my doubles partner - Olympic medalist and his coach. They seem to know something about the game and their view of feel seems to disagree with everything you say. But good luck with it.

Talk about the feel, complain about the feel...then say it isn't about the feel. I am going to leave you with that one and stick to the proven developing feel of table tennis.

I used the Neo H3 on a Yasaka's Resonate AI Carbon Blade. I think it has now been rebranded as the Atletico Power - Concave (don't quote me on that but it reads as the same blade). This blade has heaps of power, so no problems with generating the spin and getting it over the net. You have...

Come off it....Not having the ZYRE-03 has got to be what is holding me back!!!! hahaha

Lol, the elephant in the room.

And as I said at the very start of this discussion. The blade, because you need the feelings. The thread has clearly moved to which is better for performance. I would, without doubt, always spend more on the blade, with or without a budget. I have never heard anyone recommend otherwise. Rubbers...

I am more than happy to play against people with good rubbers on average blades. I will continue to enjoy driving people back from the table, watching them dip the modern heavy ball into the net or being forced to lob it up with the less-spinny modern heavy ball for me to smash them off the...