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all these can be help by a coach. But given your current comments, I'd actually advise against coaching. It is a lot less effective if you don't believe in the coach can help.

Sounds like it would make a good FH rubber. How is its tack and surface grip?

Make your multi-ball from fully regular to more complex and more random i.e. closer and closer to real game situation. Getting a coach may help if there is any technical flaw. Experience alone can only get so far.

Stiga rubbers for some reason are relatively cheap within China (150-200 CNY, whereas Omega 7 would be close to 300 CNY), but they don't have them in MAX, only 2.1 mm IIRC.

Yes that's my point. If you just keep playing matches/tournaments, then only a low % of your opponents would have weird styles, and it would take you lots and lots of time to get used to them simply because of lack of exposure. Whereas if you have a coach that can feed you these balls, you can...

If you sit there the whole time and no one sort you out, your club is poorly managed... Potential solution may be to go very early for a session such that there are only a few players so they either sit around or have to play with you.

Most players I know that have coaching are good at beating choppers, do you know why? Because their coach would practice looping against chopping with them, which is otherwise difficult to access unless you know a good chopper. Many coaches would be able to feed multiball or block with short...

For me, it is one of the very few new colour rubber that I could play on FH. Most new colour rubbers seem to be designed for BH, which may have more bounce, but too soft and non-tacky for my FH preference.

It is not very bouncy. It feels like a less tacky Rxton 5 with softer sponge and tough-ish topsheet (that seems to be most new color rubbers). That's why I put it on FH.

the sponges of Rxton 1 and Rxton 3 Pink (sponge looks the same as blue) look and feel different. They maybe different generations/variants of the same series. Never boost neither of them though, but Rxton 3 Pink sponge feels like small pore cake sponge. Rxton 5's sponge look really similar to...

could you compare moon blue to rxton 3 blue? very different?

you are very generous, I wouldn't go beyond 729 cross green/blue if I am buying for community center 😂

With my limited experience with non tacky Chinese rubbers, the one that feels and perform closest to ESN rubbers is the 729 Presto Max Spin, which has a similar sponge hardness as O7 pro (46 vs 45 on ESN scale). It is not cheap as a Chinese rubber but still slightly cheaper than a Vega.

they could also blame the hot weather in Vietnam, although I am not sure if China is a lot colder 🤣

when's the last time that happened in TT industry? DHS and Stiga are notorious with QC and I never heard about them withdrawing products on a massive scale. If they have please let me know. Also, a rubber is not designed to last forever. How long should a rubber last before it bubbles? this is...

I had a blade lacquer from them since Feb, so far so good, feels thin, still intqct, but I can't comment on how much it changed the blade feeling because I never tried it without lacquering.

Also blades of Jiang Jialiang and Norio Takashima.

which w81 did you get? inner fibre or outer fibre? I think there are also ALC and ZLC variant. Loki's blade series seem to be quite confusing, like Sword😂 IMO they can benefit from streamlining their blade offering like their rubbers.

I was really tempted by V9 with its look, but now I have tried ALC I don't think I will go back to carbon blade anytime soon.

LAC is on the heavy side as well, no? I remember seeing cut weights 50g+.