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  1. Lessons I Learned in Shanghai about Boosting and Equipment in General

    I don’t have any experience with 41 or 42 but I tried 40,39,37. One thing, I’ve noticed that I think harder rubber has more room for boosting. I wonder are the pros boosting more than 3 layers, so they benefit from not just ability of harder hitting, also more boosted more live, more speed...
  2. Lessons I Learned in Shanghai about Boosting and Equipment in General

    I still don't convinced in glue layer before booster, I feel glue becomes more sticky and hard to remove. For sure it might be helping, but what are the chances? Once I have a bubble on rubber, it happened while playing. For re-boosting, I've started measuring hardness of all my rubbers while...
  3. Other candidates for GOAT

    Ma long is the clear goat (greatest of all the times) If there is a candidate, he should be from next generations, like fzd or wcq. There is no question that ma long over thrown all his predecessor, and dominated his era. Of course, there could be some other favorite players for “you”. Or...
  4. dhs long 3 vs fan zhendong alc

    No, tb alc is faster, stiffer, more direct. 3+2 primorac carbon 5+2 koto (tb alc) > 5+2 limba (bty inner series, long 5) > 7 hard wood > 7 soft top wood (long 3, clipper) >= 5 ply hard top (yasaka extra offensive, stiga rosewood etc) > 5 ply limba/soft top (nittaku acoustic, bty korbel...
  5. dhs long 3 vs fan zhendong alc

    long 3's handle is perfect, if you find tb alc too thin. But it's completely different blade, no carbon, top limba, 7ply thick blade, which you may like or not. TB alc or FZD alc (5+2 carbon, koto top) is also quite different from Ma lin carbon (3+2 carbon, limba top) if you want outer alc...
  6. Help with blade

    Just go inner carbon or below like 7 ply - 5ply limba. I’ve also started with primorac carbon when I was kid (my trainer gave me, it was second hand, heavily used, so cheaper) Years later, I’ve switched to TB ALC, it’s better but still fast, no "significant" control increase. I’ve tried many...
  7. Backhand rubber

    Yes, dignics is quite expensive, also tenergy is not cheap either. I don’t have extensive experience lately but there are many tensor options. Also I’ve boosted rakza z, but I haven’t tried yet. I can be alternative option to try.
  8. Backhand rubber

    https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/rakza-z-to-tenergy-19-for-bh.33315/ I’ve passed on same path, rakza z is easy to spin, easy to serve, play short etc but speed is missing. It’s doable but needs a quite effort. Based on recommendations, I’ve tried dignics 09c, which is great...
  9. What's causing China losing all these matches lately?

    1- exhaustion from previous tours 2- 35-40c temperature 3- bouncy floors 4- upset from Olympic decision for ML, LJK, LGY etc 5- commitment of non-cnt players due to rank point, money, olympics 6- individually, it seems Korean team studies CNT, especially ML, even his backhand serve tactic is...
  10. Empty Seats at Saudi Smash

    Luckily (unluckily for me) all seat are sold for Paris even 1 year before.
  11. Saudi Smash 2024

    Thanks, the tennis field seems good for finals, probably qualifiers played on some of multi purpose venue.
  12. Saudi Smash 2024

    I couldn’t find venue address, but I don’t think dance so but definitely not any kind of sports. Problem is not just cameras, also floor gets waves when players stomp on the ground.
  13. Saudi Smash 2024

    Qualifiers are really hard to watch, it feels like they've placed cameras on top of trampoline. Every step of players shake image a lot. I hope main draw would be better.
  14. How much training and how to train to become a professional?

    I guess it also depends on what do you mean in professional, a player in national team? or top league in country? But if we think you want a career on TT, not a side job, then a person should be around top 50 in country. To do so, I think everything possible should be done, - 1-1 training with...
  15. How to clean / restore used blade

    Slightly sanding the handle may help.
  16. padel tabletennis

    Any serious match may high likely end with some kind of injury.
  17. Tabletennis11 website broken?

    I guess they've cleared out stocks and stats etc.(popularity orders changed) And also they've restocked many products. Now they even have national W968 stocks too.
  18. What's wrong?

    Also I think, towel bands keeps sweat away from eyes or hand. But I might be also wrong about toweling racket, the motion seemed to me is looked like drying. I guess after they are wiping with their hands (most likely wet) then drying with towel.
  19. What's wrong?

    Apart from technical issues, humidity can sometimes be a problem. I've encountered this with my tacky rubbers (Rakza Z and H3) as well. At the beginning of a match, everything seems fine. However, as the match progresses, perhaps due to my body sweating a lot or an increase in humidity in the...
  20. Rakza Z to Tenergy 19 for BH?

    Yes, actually after couple year using hybrids, I would liked to try again tensors for better tempo in backhand game but hybrid ones helped me to keep in the rally. So I’m afraid of tensors, even slower ones. But I’ve got your point all.
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