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Barely escaped deuce in the 7th...

Wow, Wang Manyu pulled it out? Fan Siqi is so underrated lol...

Yes, it is less spinny tthan before but to be honest, the effects of the change in ball material haven't been separated from the size increase. The main point though is that you can't just spin the ball and win points like you used to be able to. Whether that is because the ball rotates less...

What they mean is that woth thd old ball, the amount of rotation you could put on thr ball was often a weapon. So you could play at a slower tempo with spinny loops and make the opponent hesistant to attack because of the quality of spin. With the new balls. This is much harder. As Timo...

My apologies maybe I should have asked you which stars are flat hitting more rather than assuming I know what you meant. But there is a common misconception that when a player is hitting the ball fad through the table, they are spinning the ball less than when they loop backspin slowly. While...

That you continue to post things that show you don't understand what you are watching. Driving the ball is not flat hitting. Go watch Hugo with pongfinity and see the shot he played to maximize spin measurements.

Blades as products don't have the broad consistency of rubbers either, mostly because wood is a living thing. For all we know, one pr both of those blades could be outliers relative to their expected design specs.

The spin is used to increase the speed and consistency of powerful shots, not to just win points just on spin. The faster blades become useless in the absence of spinny rubbers with sponge to increase dwell on powerful shots. Hardbat often uses slower and flexible blades for this reason. All...

For any style, both are important. The point though is that for modern table tennis, spin is more important than control/feeling though everyone wants the best of both.

Because people are different - what I consider a good blade may not be the same as what you do. Sometimes, what I consider a top blade today is not the same as what I considered it yesterday lol.

Like some have pointed out, this is very much a test of playing level. While in modern times, pros do use faster blades to deal with the plastic ball and rubbers designed to spin more (and therefore usually the rubbers have more dwell time and need faster blades to release the ball better), the...

For full transparency, even if it likely means I will no longer be a candidate for moderation, I did offer to moderate the site earlier this month/late last month. I consider Carl a friend and given his priorities, I felt it made no sense to have to alert him every time a flame war was getting...

That @zeio is so delusional defies reasonable explanation. After beating up on Hayata all year for playing with/through injury based on the Olympics last year, he can't resist doing so on the basis of her beating Harimoto in a match while ignoring that as recently as last month, he was talking...

Thanks for your definition of a top blade - I would like to hear his.

The problem is really that ultimately, all of these things are up to the The Zyres of the Founder. No one knows or understands what motivates him on this topic since it has been discussed over the years in multiple contexts with multiple parties with no changes being made. If someone told me...

When you are trying to be the very best, every detail has some contribution. But when we keep the same rubber and change blades or keep the same blade and change rubbers, the results are not 50-50. Pros all use top rubbers or boost them to stay competitive. This usually requires the most...

This reads like the person who tried to look for the average human being and said it had one testicle and one ovary.

I think Timo Boll felt that D09c could be used by a beginner. He is on the record saying this. What kind of blade do you think he had in mind that beginner should use since according to you, the rubber has a blade power transfer requirement? What is a top blade?

It depends on your forehand or backhand. Mizutani used it on both sides so it is a style choice - it is like D05 but shoots at a lower and "faster" trajectory.

Complaining about a rubber not playing well on humid conditions is like complaining about a dog not eating grass with enthusiasm. By all means change the rubber but humidity is just bad for TT and that is addressed mostly by training and adaptation to the degree you need to deal with it.