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On my Aliexpress portal, they are both around $33.

T1 can be viewed from Australia as well. It is blocked in Vietnam and Thailand. I believe SPOTV Asia owns the rights there and they are covering the event abysmally, with only 20 mins worth of footage on their YT channel.

Looks like Stuor has a clone too. Wonder if they are made in the same factory and Stuor just put their logo lens on the handle (a janky looking one at that). ₫806,900 6%OFF | Stuor Sa ALC Carbon Inner Table Tennis Blade Table Tennis Racket Ping Pong Paddles Carbon Fiber Built-in 7 Layers For...

This is absolutely not true in my experience owning 3 Fextras and having changed rubbers on them multiple times. Splintering is an issue on unsealed limba due to the nature of the wood itself (and user error of course). Splintering can and has occurred on a W968 and nobody would call those $500...

Yeah I agree with that. The video would be a lot more helpful if it also provided the best drills and practicing strategies for fixing the problems. But sometimes it's nice to be reminded that I'm still a beginner making basic errors by pointing out the obvious. Luckily I have saved all the...

I remember watching the first installment about a year and a half ago when I first started TT and thinking "bah, this is all obvious stuff. Let's watch videos of how to hit a FH like Ma Long instead." Despite hundreds of hours of coaching and playing since then, I'm still working on my poor...

Incidentally, this popped up into my YT feed (the algorithm is all-knowing): To me this doesn't look anything like the same style. Biggest difference is Harimoto is more heavily reliant on athleticism, using more footwork and putting his entire body into his shots. But I guess this is an...

Would you say Togami, Harimoto, and Koki Niwa have esssentially the exact same style?

Probably 10 times the financial and institutional support from the government as well.

Nah it's like mechanical keyboard MX switches. Blue is the loudest and most 'clicky' sounding. Red is more linear and more quiet. You use red when you want to play TT at night when your wife is in the same room sleeping.

You're one of the few people out there that has tried the 75 inner PBO. Would love to hear your impressions and review of it.

Is she the one that cried after losing to Adam Bobrow? That kid is definitely a competitor! Fun to see the Matsushima family rise up the ranks.

Thanks for the confirmation! If anything this mixup mightve shed some light on the bizarre mystery of why it's been believed that the Nittaku Acoustic and no other blade has a tung tree core. I'm heavily leaning towards it just being kiri (or at least some paulownia variety).

From what I gather, the wood people are referring to as "tung" in the TT world isn't actually tung but a hybrid Chinese wood called "shan tong." Info about the wood is here: https://paulownia.pro/en/paulownia-shan-tong/ Note that the website states that shan tong is an artificially created...

I've heard good things about it in random comments online, but nothing detailed enough for me to want to pony up $80+ for a relatively unknown Yinhe product.

Pretty much what you'd expect from a guy that took a game off of Ma Long in WTT play :)

Great finals match in the Women's side of this event!

Everything about the production, including the lighting, sound, camera work, and crowd puts the WTT to shame. Watching TT presented this way just makes it feel like a more spectacular and dynamic sport. WTT should just hire whoever was in charge of this ETTU event. Unfortunately, like their...

Tbh, I don't see anyone here hyping up Harimoto and calling him the chosen one here in this forum. So we don't need to correct any misguided Harimoto lovers as far as I know. If you do encounter one, I can assure you that most people commenting in this thread (including me) will back you up in...

We got a great match and event with compelling narratives on both the Boll side and Harimoto side. Boll coming back from injuries and unexpectedly wrecking good players in straight sets. Harimoto looking to play a different style with a very aggressive FH. And all you can think of is to talk...