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First of all, what is a beginner? A person that is learning for the first time how to hold a racket? A person with TTR below 1000? Or someone that has 10 years experience with "office" play style? IMO, D09C is advanced rubber for competitive players. It is not recommended for people that are...

Strange. What color B3 purple did you have? My red sheet has a higher throw than black H3N 39 BS, but below G09C. Also, faster than H3N, significantly slower than Mantra Pro HX. BTW, I found the spiniest rubber - TG3 40 BS. I expected to be similar to H3N BS, but it is not. With one layer falco...

From my perspective, it is a very fast blade with some kick effect on hard hits. It is stiff with a big sweet spot. I can only compare it with Stuor CNF, due to similarity in koto top layer and stiffness. Stradivarius is faster and not so linear. There is a jump between the speed gears that I...

Probably because carbon has high electrical conductivity and will heat up too much. My advice is never use microwave heating on any blade, composite or not.

Grip is the level of friction between the rubber and the ball. For me, tackiness and stikiness are the same thing, but for others and Google are different: Tackiness and stickiness both describe adhesive properties, but tackiness refers to the initial, instantaneous grab upon light contact...

I agree but will add some thoughts. Blade frequency is related to speed and stiffness but can be misleading when it is used for comparison of blades with different mass and dimensions. Type of wood can affect blade behavior as well, carbon layers, etc. Just frequency can be useful to trace...

Skills are more important than equipment. But there is optimal equipment for every playing style and individual goals. For example, I can chop with Mantra Pro XH, but it will not be as effective as Slice 40 CS or Pimple Slide. WCQ and FZD are far away from us. They use intuition and intuition...

From my experience, just removing the edges below the chord makes the blade 20Hz slower and a little more flexible. Other solutions are change of the handle, like Victas Award Offensive or cutting channels above the handle, like Yasaka Gatien Extra 3D. Award Offensive handle change one of my...

Is not balanced. You have mid to advance rubbers with a cheap entry-level blade. From an economic point of view, it is better to have expensive blade and not-so expensive rubbers. The catch is to utilize this expensive blade in a way that a cheap blade can't replace it. Depending on your play...

H3 is not good at blocking, especially passive block. TG3 is even worse. G1 is probably the best inverted rubber that I know for block. Mantra Pro XH is also good, so I guess the softer versions M and S, can work for your BH. Fun fact: Mima Ito play style includes blocking near the table and...

Paint it black. The strains are too deep.

All Marder rubbers have the same topsheet, very thin with long pips. Semi-tacky, can't hold the ball. I played with Marder 2 and I liked it as allround rubber with an extreme level of control. Unfortunately, the top sheet is not very durable. Donic Slice 40 CS is better in spin generation, with...

I don't point to a faster blade, just stiffer. Such blade will also help with flat hitting accuracy. Don't have personal expirience with any of them, but will guess that Innerforce ALC is the stiffest.

SP plays better on stiff blades. Did you have any other than Acoustic?

What is the weight of your setup? I have goriki danshi, an excellent blade, but will not recommend it for beginners due to the extreme price and weight. Initialy I pair it with H3 BS and SDK 1.4, but was too heavy for longer competive play. So, I switched to G1 1.7mm for some time and now to...

I stopped using SP on BH after some semipro destroyed me with fast and spiny services. I was unable to overcome the incoming spin with a push or loop. Only loose grip and adjusting of blade angle helped. But predicting incoming spin was 50/50... SP has too hard surface that makes them direct and...

Don't overthink. It will take some time and EJ-ing before you find your optimum. Enjoy the game and make notes to save your hard-learned knowledge. TT is not an easy sport, especially for defenders. My pips journey was around 9 months and (let's say) ended in conclusion that my BH prefer...

+1 for the H3, can be H3N 39 without boost. For the blade something without kick, linear. Yinhe 980XX can be that. Only choping will not win games. Learn to contraloop fast, to change amount of spin and twidle.

Dr. N Dominance Spin Hard, I have very good impressions at 1.5mm (measured 1.6). Is advertised as 47 degrees shore O (measured 49), so it will be around H3 37. The grip is excellent, with no detectable air oxidation. The top sheet hardness is between black H3 BS and red H3 OS. The weight is 43g...