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The Goon Squad is still operational? I'd thought the ITTF would have got you guys by now.

If you'd pay more attention you'd notice that there's a prototype inverted pips version in production, so I'm sure short pips will be an option.

Hit a bit with long pips for the first time. Yinhe 955 Black in 0.7mm. Very cheap entry level version. Impressions: Very slow. Tons of net mistakes on passive shots. 1.5mm sponge may be better for me personally. Forehand loops and for the most part drives are nigh-impossible, it tends to fall...

I think we fundamentally agree on the big picture stuff, but there may be some language differences going on. At the end of the day testing is queen and analysis is king, so just trust the numbers you're getting.

Yes, that's true. At least you know you've crossed some kind of threshold. I'd just be wary of relying on it that much when you're more advanced. Just because it cracks doesn't mean you're out of juice in practice. At least in my experience, the highest quality contacts I've made don't sound...

Pros get custom blades with their name on it that's selected for what they want. You won't get one like that before you sign with DHS. QC's probably the exact same for all of them, they just pick out certain masses and thicknesses, and maybe top ply appearance.

"Dry boosting" and whatever is nonsense, but you're not wrong in that the commercially available rollers are total crap. I prefer a water bottle at this point. At least it's round.

When people get on the road in a car for the first time, they pay more attention to the laws and road rules than the experienced ones with some more skill. :)

Spin and speed can increase until the topsheet's performance limit where it saturates and reverses trend, which is probably far beyond human limits. It's just very inefficient to get there. Pros do 170RPS easily, but the performance limit is probably more like 1000+. Speed can increase on flat...

Anything boosted will generally shrink if you re-glue it. I've even had a years old Focus 3 sheet shrink after I re-glued it just now. Will be interesting to see if Hurricane 3 Neo also shrinks if reglued after years old. Boosters will lose their effect within a few weeks to maybe a month. If...

It probably matters a little, but you should separate 1st order, 2nd order, 3rd order etc. effects. In practice producing an acceleration means your contact velocity is higher. You can't really produce bat velocity without one anyway. :) There's not a ton of slowmo enough video existing, even...

Simulations and slowmo doesn't seem to confirm a lot of this. What is your source? The main spin contribution is just tangential force in respect to the CG. Largely a function of mu * normal load and some pimple geometry stuff. There is no time to accelerate at all, the contact time is sub ms...

Once an elastomer is compressed about 65-75%, it stops being an elastomer and becomes part of the installed stiffness. It's not contributing any more performance the harder you hit with it. The topsheet also becomes less effective every unit of load you put into it due to load sensitivity. For...

All that means is that you're not bottoming the sponge. It's better for performance not to; you basically run out of sponge performance once you do, and it's not like the topsheet can be much more hysteretic after that, you're mostly relying on the load sensitivity of the compound. Probably...

Physically this doesn't make much sense at all. Maybe if you're talking about 0.001ms optimizations to get that very last bit of performance that's mostly theoetical, but there is no way to "activate the rubber" but "not activate the blade", especially on strong strokes. Assuming the sheet is...

People use the same models of equipment that pros do for arbitrary reasons, not because of any kind of special synergy. It has more to do with your individual abilities and gameplay goals. HL5 and W968 has dramatically changed to be entirely different blades about 2 times now, potentially 3...

Flared, because my grip is relaxed, so I'd like the bat to not fly out of my hand. I'm planning to buy a cheap ST blade some time and try it again, though. It may have some advantages for backhand.

Several tabletennis induced injuries will usually make you rethink such a culture. I need to take it at least a little seriously nowadays because I've gotten hurt so many times.

I bought a 5X Inner, I'll probably make a review later with first impressions and some basic measurements. EDIT: Some dimensions. Hand tape measure, so not precise. THICKNESS Near wing: 5.5mm plus some Middle: 6.0mm minus some Tip: 6.0mm plus some HEAD DIMENSIONS Length from rubber bottom...

"2.4.6 The surface of the covering material on a side of the blade, or of a side of the blade if it is left uncovered, shall be matt, black on one side, and of a bright colour clearly distinguishable from black and from the colour of the ball on the other." I'm reading this as red paint being ok.