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He is improving so it doesnt matter. He can give the credit to himself, even open minded people don't always learn and success is about results not attitude. He is putting in the work, traveling out to play better players and making changes to his style. Don't confuse his attitude with his...

The key word is "blindly". He is allowed to challenge the advice he gets. And as @ThePongCommenter pointed out, he can sometimes accept it a year later when he is more experienced and wiser. As one example, @MORTtheORT asking him to play some powerful backhand openers. I will be watching...

G09c as well, though it isn't quite as spinny, but it is a very good rubber, just not overwhelming.

I'm saying that Fan Zhendong could do it (maybe his D09c were really H3 in disguise so he is a bad example) so it might not apply to our everyday amateurs. My main point is that just about everyone I know, whether they enjoy it or not, that can play decently with boosted H3 on forehand can play...

So you mean that most people even amateurs can do what Fan did, flip their bats over using both rubbers, and still play reasonably well? Fan is a world champion, I don't know, this might not be as straightforward as you think... at least Victor thinks so....

But such players can use H3 right?

Oh, I now see the rest of it. There is a lot of research that shows beyond reasonable doubt that man is a social animal that that very often, people form groups around even the most trivial things and these groups tend to persist across multiple issues (without prejudice to cause). You might be...

I have always done some form of hit brushing, maybe more brushing than hitting when the celluloid ball was around, but then I refined my contact using a bunch of ESN rubbers, most notably MX-S and Omega V Asia. I had never heard of activating the sponge. All I did was hit the ball and see what...

My bad, it just felt that you were acting like this was some unique experience when there were mounds of threads and posts to the contrary. I will leave you alone to carry on!

Yes, but since you are used to H3, what you considered non-linear behavior might be desirable behavior for some players in some range of swings. Most amateurs won't enter that range, and when they do, they will be generally advanced enough that they can decide if it makes sense for them. All...

Zezima has responded to you how he does. He actually wrote a lot so you know he engaged with your post. So now you have to decide what you want to do in response. Just because he didn't respond exactly the way other posters might respond doesn't mean he didnt like or engage with what you...

I thought you were a non-believer?

In this case it was because I was going to lodge the exact same objection and decided ir wasn't worth jt. Sometimes I think I am insane whern I read certain things until I see that I am not the only one. Maybe it is social conditioning or something. But Victor is a good guy, he can handle it...

The counterargument will.be based on "throw angle" and linearity, and maybe price. But he thinks G09c is usable by amateurs so I dunno...

No tricks, it is just that consistent heavy backspin is a different tempo that you need practice against to get used to. You also have to read the ball trajectory and have strokes that enable you to stay in the rally when you have the risk of hitting long so you can wait until you get a ball...

Yuka wins while dropping only one game throughout the tournament at deuce in the semis. European juniors need to do better vs choppers.

You seem to have almost passed that threshold that people can no longer tell at what age you learned, except maybe you are still more physically restrained than people who learned athletically young are, but that might change in a different drill.

Vs Wei Shihao in a handicap match.

Yeah. But my counter to that is that I don't think admittedly improving players should be relying on the marginal effects of top end rubbers to get their standard results. That should be reserved for later stages in TT development in my humble opinion. Of course, it is my opinion.

What a player says about G09c tells you a lot about what they think a good rubber should do. I understand the idea that it sucks (the balls are not as threatening as Dignics 09c) but this is wrong (there are a lot of control elements that offset this especially in the short and blocking game if...