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Interesting, I've never heard of Mizuno rubbers. In Japan, they are very popular for athletic clothes and shoes and such.

Is there any general consensus about what is the best non-ESN and non-BTY tensor rubber? Almost every rubber I hear about nowadays is a ESN. The only non-ESN rubber that I even know of is the new Hammond Z2 and Victas 07.

I took another 200 or so of the low, short, wide, no spin serves today. Returned all of them by flick and by the end was finding my rhythm a bit and seeing some progress. I found that I returned them better when I didn't use such a long flick technique, but a shorter and more simple stroke...

It is a very exciting rubber to use, but probably not the easiest rubber to use because of its hardness and low throw angle.

What is gears hyper like? For me, AK47 and Presto max speed are both bouncy and fast rubbers that rival many tensors in speed. Is gears hyper like that? I notice it has a low speed rating on revspin

Right, I'm less consistent with the flick. When the ball is close to the net and very low, there isn't a lot of margin for error to make a trajectory onto the other side of the table. So I guess I try to put enough spin on the ball to bend the ball into the table. I don't think its a very...

I did another 2 hours of just returning serve today. This time I just had a random 1000 level do serves to me. It sounds easy, but it's actually these types of no-spin guys that give me more trouble. Anyway, he did this low-spin, short, wide serve to my backhand. If I do a push, I can return...

I tested Target 90, but I didn't feel like it had more bounce. TP3 feels to me to have more bounce. Also I remember Target 90 having a slightly uncomfortably low arc, where as TP3 feels more normal to me.

Also have you tried Target National or new Target National? Is TP3 more or less the same?

Sounds good. To me, this rubber is quite similar to Battle 2. Will you try boosting this rubber?

I really don't like Kanak's stroke. It looks very ugly to me, and it gives me the impression of a crab. When he wins points, I have this uneasy feeling of "he didn't deserve to win", or he won in a cheap way

In Europe, Dima has the best stroke mechanics to my eye.

Hey Duke, seems like you like the Evolution EL series more than the MX-P. In my area, everybody uses the MX-P. Why do you prefer the EL?

As I said, I spent about 2 hours just receiving serve nonstop. But I have 2 questions that arose. My partner is righthanded serving to me. 1) He often served a short, wide angled serve cross court to my left with minimal spin. My instinct was to flick this ball. I started stepping forward with...

I think the hand sanitizer might have messed up the rubber as well When its dry, it seems normal. But when it gets hot and humid, it seems like the rubber surface gets kinda slippery and oily. I feel the rubber is not gripping the ball on loops. Does that make sense or am i just imagining things?

Well i spent my full playing session only returning serves today. I hope this leads to tangible benefits soon.

After you serve, should you be in the neutral parallel stance? Or should you be at an angled stance to prepare for a forehand loop?

Well I'm not really trying to blame anyone. But just coming from 10 years of badminton, I find that TT is just so darn frustrating. When I miss a return or pop up a return, I want to pull my hair out. When I win those easy points on my own serve, I don't feel the satisfaction of earning a point...

I know. But the sport still feels imbalanced. A lot more serve/return errors and hard to get into good rallies.

I actually wish the sport could be changed somehow to make the service return less extreme. But since that's not gonna happen, I guess the only way to solve my issue is to practice service return non-stop until I get a handle on it.