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But for a lot of people who seem to inhabit forums the quest for the miracle tweak never ends. I actually have a lot of curiosity about equipment but discovered I could satisfy it by trying clubmates setups. One thing that I tried st a point, and which I think IS worth exploring in certain...

You pretty much got my main message. A secondary message is that I suspect strongly that too frequent equipment changes can impede progress, but suspecting is not the same as knowing. Proving it either way would be really hard. As for effect on level, I've been at this for a LONG time and I...

I started at 10. Lived in Sweden from 10 until I was 14 so I got a good start. But we moved to a place in the US where it was pretty hard to progress optimally (without total commitment from family, and my parents more or less tolerated my driving several hours to tournaments but no way they...

Responding to a few: 1. Yes, TT equipment is far more diverse than tennis, and I'll take your word for it about badminton. But TT players don't explore the full range looking for the equipment miracle that makes them better. Safe to say a lot of modern offensive players in plastic ball era...

Manufacturers make a huge variety of subtly different kinds of rubber and blades all designed for pretty much the same kind of player. Then they, along with "experts" on forums, convince people that there is some sort of super secret rocket science (accumulated by "experience") by which every...

Again, something that FEELS better may not actually BE better. A shot that FEELS spinnier may even BE spinnier, but maybe it's costing you points in ways that aren't staying in your memory because it wasn't spectacular. But a point is a point either way. Memory is selective and feel isn't...

DE I actually deleted part of my post that you quoted because I thought it was too long and nobody would read it!

There are a number of inherent biases at work but the real challenge is measurement, and on a lot of EJ (equipment junkie) threads it is just assumed that something like "my forehand loop was spinnier" or other such statements are actually true. In fact, though this kind of statement should...

You chose well. Now don't worry about it. Just play. Dont read equipment threads on forums either, all it will do is send you down an unproductive path. Just play. Watch videos of good players.

First post is like War and Peace.

Constantly changing equipment delays progress. An Innerforce is not so fast that it will necessarily delay your progress, it is a blade that can suit a wide range of people, but whatever you decide, plan to stick with it. I'm not sure tacky rubber is a great idea for a developing player...

If you gamble on TT it will give you a Chinese loop like Ma Long and thereby improve your TT results and it will exempt you from Rule 88. Obviously it works better if you bet on leagues in places like Ukraine and Kazakhstan on matches between players nobody has ever heard of, and the more money...

A clear violation of Rule 88.

I think he is.

About me: I have authored 120 peer reviewed scientific publications. I have been principal investigator on NIH grants totalling more than 12 million USD. 18 students have earned PhD degrees under my direct supervision. Once per week I attend a meeting about local conditions to advice the...

This is misinformation.

All of my future posts will be on the curated SARS-COV2 thread. I will close out here by quoting from the little review NL posts in a bizarre attempt to refute the idea that asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of COVID-19 occurs. In there we read: "Although there is a lower risk of...

It is not appropriate to compare Covid-19 with any influenza that I am aware of for one crucial reason: SARS-COV-2 can be readily and efficiently spread by asymptomatic people and people whose symptoms are so minor that they don't yet know they have it. This does not happen with flu, and in...

Here is a GREAT video on Covid-19 vaccines, explained simply and clearly by one of the world's top immunologists, who has done really important work on this. It answers a lot of key recent questions, including how long Covid-19 immune responses last, impact of SARS-COV-2 mutations, vaccine...