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My first blade was a Nittaku Acoustic. I liked the feel of it a lot so that I ended up researching the "tung" wood at some point. I was even going to ask a blademaker at some point to copy it using "tung" as the core. It turns out as hipnotic said that the core was kiri. This took me by...

Now you're being silly. This is literally an issue you weren't even aware of until 5 minutes ago and you're doggedly fighting against it to prove me wrong for what gain? Also why would you assume that Andrea knows anything about this blade. She is unable to talk about the products from the...

As far as I know, all of the blade makers on this forum agree that tung isn't used in table tennis blades. I think it was hipnotic or Waki that first pointed out that the Acoustic had a kiri core and was mistakenly listed as "tung." But why do you feel the need to appeal to authority? I think...

I made that same mistake thinking the Fextra Pro V had koto outer but was corrected by someone more knowledgable in woods. It's in this post here: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/sanwei-fextra-7.27688/post-422726

In this thread: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/new-member-of-the-sanwei-75-series-red-arylate-carbon-what-do-you-think.32805/ Also, I forget that you are not a native English speaker. The use of "we" is colloquial here, so you specifically weren't a part of the discussion but...

Hope it doesn't change your enjoyment of the blade but that top ply is limba not koto. Looks like this might be the perfect beginner blade to recommend to people for value.

We've had this discussion. There's almost zero chance tung is being used in mass produced Chinese table tennis blades. That website is probably making the same translation error. Tung tree is toxic to work with and you can't actually buy the lumber anywhere at scale. Google images of the tree...

I thought we all figured out that there's no such thing as "tung wood" being used for table tennis blades, and stuff listed as "tung" is just a translation error for paulownia (kiri).

You are confused since you think that you have to slowly upgrade speed on some sort of time table. Your goal right now is to learn the techniques and how to spin the ball. A ball that shoots off the blade too quickly will make that harder. A blade that has carbon may mute the feedback and make...

There's several hundred blades more suitable for a developing player and cheaper than a Viscaria to replace your old 10 year blade with. After finding my that I enjoyed using a $20 Fextra more than a couple of $100+ Nittaku blades, I determined that price has almost zero to do with how a blade...

If you've only been playing for 8 months, I don't think you really should be thinking about how Viscaria stacks up against another carbon blade. You should be trying to learn the techniques with the blade you already have, and it's likely you haven't even approached 50% of the qualitiy it's...

This ended up being a very entertaining and enlightening read on table banter psychology and how to deal with it. I pretty much started off just thinking that it was obvious OP was being too sensitive being so effected by a common joke (I've heard it myself a few times and have never been...

Since you're honestly asking and the issue is making you jump to a lot of negative conclusion about some players' mindset, I'll take a crack at explaining this for you. First of all, it's important to understand that people handle stress and anxiety differently. For some people, vocalizing and...

It's probably this video @NextLevel was referring to: Fang Bo is a great coach. Glad these new AI translated videos are coming out recently.

Not sure how that's how online discussions work. In any case we all post a random thought we wish we hadn't every now and then. If youre saying now that you don't believe that now then everyone will accept it and it's no big deal. As a young person, it's a good idea to use the internet to...

With current exchange rates it might be cheaper to order directly from Japan. Try tt-japan.net or nishohi

How long have you been a teenager for? Do you really think someone you're playing table tennis with is your mortal enemy where you need to scream in their face and intimidate them? For what purpose? If you think homosexuality has anything to do with the current status of celebrations in...

Almost beating the dominant WR#1 at home in China as a 17 year old? Yes. This is also worth bragging about. What does him not having a sponsorship deal have anything to do with his future? Please connect the dots for us. Seems like you admit that the JNT coaches and system are favoring him...

SYS playing like god out there. All JJY could do was laugh and roll with the punches. Definitely the cutest after point celebration I've seen lol

LJK pulls it out with an amazing effort. Though it feels like the theme of this event is CNT members scraping by with the win eventually. Who else has had close calls here: CM, WYD, WCQ, and now LJK?