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He then belongs to that 2% lol.

Short answer: water!

What was the main decision to switch to pips? Not because you liked it because you didn't know it at the time (maybe only from others), you just experienced that first in retrospect that you liked it.

Sergio's "Greek wood" now with V>22 DE on my FH and on my BH with Gewo Hype XT Pro 40. The Andro wood is now Yasaka Rakza7 soft on my BH and Andro Hexer Grip SFX on my FH. If we exceptionally play competition again, it is always with the Andro TP_Ligna CI Off wood with Gewo...

There is something thoroughly wrong with our table tennis, especially its image to the general public. Despite, smaller balls, faster rubbers, attacking momentum, technical equipment, a You Tube channel, Instagram, etc.... Indeed, interest in WTT is deplorably low, more audience comes to watch...

Strong that you write that I don't understand that, you don't even know me. :D Maybe you are an exception? So you also mastered all strokes with normal 2x inverted rubbers? You started playing table tennis right away with LP/SP or anti, without using inverted = 0,01%? Very good of you!💪

Ah, it's actually all quite simple. And much of what is written here does not matter at all. The people who reach for technical equipment do so in 98% of cases because they cannot execute stipulated strokes properly and thereby score their intended points. They look for a solution to this which...

No technical shortcomings? Then go for the (world)championship!

Sounds familiar to me. Is so in many countries, not just Italy. If everyone complied, there would be far fewer failures. As I wrote above, if you have companies or people in your customer base who pay your invoices within 30 days of their due date, you should be very happy and these are the best...

And never received a sanction for it. :unsure:

How do you think it works in real business? If you find someone you get your invoice paid from within 30 days, you really have to pamper that customer and try to retain them. In many industries, this should be the standard rule but few stick to it. Good reliable partners are usually in Germany...

chewing gum with chlorophyll right?:D

Ha, Olav! Great player, (a lefty:love:). Funny, though, that he blurts out that he is no longer a professional. Has always been a perennial talent and played several years in Germany. Since this season he has been playing for my old club in Belgium which I was a member of for about six years...

Not just topspin but usually just about all the BH balls they should learn, like pushing, blocks, flipping (chiquita), etc...they can't do these or rather, not well enough and they (whether supported by a coach or not, which you yourself agree to above) reach for technical equipment. And then...

Yeah Danny, I know him but not personally of course. Wonderful player but is certainly not a classically trained table tennis player and most probably learned to play ping-pong in his garage and perfected himself with anti or anything other rubber. I am pretty sure Danny used anti because of...

Mmmm, I was in Birmingham in 1977, Bern in 80 (with J. Hilton...🥲), Paris in 88 and the World Cup in Rotterdam in 2011. In between, I saw many international matches of the national team, European meetings with Villette Charleroi, demonstrations, etc...etc...so I have seen and met quite a lot...

Hahaha no, I don't know anyone who wanted to be a defender. In my time, everyone wanted to be JM Saive, Waldner, Gatien or Samsonov. Now they want to be Truls, FZN, Ma Long, Gauzy or one of the Lebruns.

Do me a favour and ask her why she started playing with these rubbers back then? Ask her! Will you?

All the pip players I know in table tennis since 1976 once started with normal reverse rubbers. All tell the same thing, because certain strokes did not succeed they switched to other technical equipment and got better with it. Some even improved a lot through training and at all levels. Which...