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I personally dislike loud choing. I wish it would stop.. But I also have contempt for ITTF ability to write a rule in language precise enough to be enforceable in a fair way. We have lotscof threads on illegal serves, this could be worse. All the same, anyone actually TEACHING kids to do...

I was also amazed by this at the 2017 WTTC. Of course my seats on one day were close to an entire regiment of ZJK fangirls.

I guess Waldner and Persson never won anything.

It doesn't seem to be based on career trajectories of any recent top players, including Ma Lin, Ma Long, Wang Liqin, Xu Xin, and others. FZD is better now than he was at 18. When did Ma Long win his first WTTC? China has such a depth of great players it is easier for some young hotshot to...

This makes no sense.

For reasons given just now by Ib66.

I don't think it is disrepectful and I think he was coached to do it as a young kid. But I also think ITTF should put their foot down on this.

Yes, the freezer bag slows down loss of booster but doesn't end it. Diffusion into a small volume vs diffusion into an infinite volume. Actually the thing I always disliked about MXP was the gradual loss of the factory booster. Its not a huge effect over say a month but noticeable. I prefer...

You have to stay close to the table with SP. It doesn't matter which ones you use, if you get pushed back you are going to have trouble.

Modern boosters used by the factory tend to not evaporate that quickly. A trick is to store your blade in a plastic freezer bag. But many of us have not played in a really long time. So frankly, any rubber would do for me. It's going to be quite some time before I will be playing given...

World top 20 players are said to be around 2900 US. All the same, a 2600 player is very very very good. About 100% of players at that level trained hard from childhood with the intent to become a pro player.

I have played against seven different US team members who played at the WTTC, possible because six of them have lived in my city. One of these guys also played at the Olympics. I was coached by three of them. Then there are a handful of former Chinese provincial team people I played with...

Well, since there is no doubt that you will fail I think I'll not be joining you on your journey. Consider your journey a success if you win some club tournaments. That is realistic.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever played against someone at that level?

Now we have a much slower ball and rallies are even shorter

Easy. They'll send you $49 of junk you won't ever use. Crappy paddles with crappy rubber and crappy balls, probably cellulose acetate junk.

Just the facts ma'am.

Most buy/sell transactions here and at MyTT go well. > 99%. And not everybody is looking for a new blade. I certainly buy new stuff from regular vendors. But my main blade is a black tag Viscsria I bought at MyTT. People just need to use a bit of caution.

To OP, thats how it felt to me too. I didn't like the FX version at all.

It keeps the wood from splintering when you remove rrubber to change it. It protects the wood. TT11 does a good job.