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Good call on the shadow training. The recovery step is just the centering of balance to neutral and getting your hand in position. It's a 'skill' that anyone can perform instantly and can be performed anywhere (when you're bored or waiting around). It's also almost entirely non-fatiguing as...

Here's two sequences in a row in drills where the recovery bounce/step clearly made a big difference. In the first sequence I remembered to do the recovery step after the FH and was ready to hit the BH winner to the corner. In the second sequence, I didn't do the recovery step and the BH after...

I tried Jupiter 3 38d on my Fextra and it was blazing fast for FH. It had too much bounce and I ended up shelfing it after just one session. It didn't even occur to me to just flip the blade around and try it out on my BH. If you do give it a go on your Fextra's BH, please report back with...

This is something that I often think about. I'm currently trying to learn proper footwork and I'm moving around laterally a lot more than I've ever done before trying to emulate younger and much more nimble players. I'm not sure whether this is going to preserve my mobility at my age or is just...

Age is just a number. You only truly become an old man in table tennis the day you decide that moving around is overrated and glue your first sheet of long pips or weird anti-spin rubber onto your blade.

You can go ahead and show me where I said or even implied that you should stop playing or that table tennis was not for everyone. I'm in my mid 40s and I hope my reading comphrension doesn't abandon me in the next few years.

I played VR table tennis for a year or so during the pandemic. I only decided to start playing real table tennis after finding Adam Bobrow's channel and seeing how fun and enjoyable table tennis can be. For a lot of people like me who were once casually interested in table tennis, I'd argue...

Unless you try a different style of rubber, you won't know whether it's suited for you. Like @mihalichtheone says, there's no conversational substitute for actually playing it. For me, I instantly knew I liked harder Chinese/hybrid rubber on my FH the moment I decided to try it. I played...

Looks like your coworkers want you to play pips and defense giving you stiff blades with little to no feeling. If you want to develop your offensive game, I wouldn't use any of those (not sure what Palio model that is though). You should instead consider getting a softer and more flexible Off-...

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Might make more sense to use the Rxton V on the FH since it's 41d and requires a lot more htting through the ball. Rxton 1 Plus isn't too bouncy, but it's supposed to be 39d and the softer livelier sponge is more suited for the BH than Rxton V. Not sure what the characteristics of black oil...

I haven't used regular Rxton 1 before. Based on the youtube review I posted above, the Plus should have a bit more bounce and feel crisper. You would be the first poster I've seen to use both, so you can let us know what the differences are. I used a light layer of Seamoon and it had flattened...

At least according to Ti Long, you use more shoulder depending on how far away from the table you play. Close to the table, you shouldn't be using any since it messes with the stability of the shot and also makes recovery more difficult. Far away from the table, swinging the shoulder forward...

I haven't played Mark V but from most reviews I've read, Yinhe Mercury 2 is for most purposes a much better rubber (here's one reviewer, for example: https://racketinsight.com/table-tennis/yasaka-mark-v-review/) The fact that Mercury 2 costs $5 and Mark V costs $35 makes me wonder in what...

I have a YSE, Donic Appelgren, Nittaku Acoustic, and a few Sanwei Fextras. The YSE is far and away my least favorite blade. I used it for a few weeks before shelfing it. It now does service as a loaner bat. Don't know why but has a lifeless feeling. Maybe I don't like the anigre outer? I...

Red and blue Sanwei Fextras

Loki 5 is listed as 41d on the sponge itself. Battle 2 I got in 39d, Bloom Power in 45d, and I have J3 in 38d and 39d.

Not much compared to your typical EJ, but way more than I should have as a beginner. Have a few Yinhe, Loki, and 729 rubbers. Loki 5, 1 Plus, 3 Blue, Battle 2 Pro, Bloom Power, Jupiter 3, Moon, Moon Speed, Moon 12 Blue, Mercury 2 soft/medium. Some ESN rubbers too. Fastarc C-1, S-1, Vega Pro

This is probably the case. In the other DHS hardness thread, we're speculating that the durometer will read the softest part first. So if the measuring pin only reaches the topsheet, that is what will be measured. The pointed measuring pin of that Shore A durometer they're using is intended to...

I bought the same one as @latej but it won't get here for another few weeks. Unfortunately I don't have any DHS rubbers, but I'll investigate the sponge/topsheet/entire rubber readings and see how it all works.