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Not willing to part with mine - I have the 3 blades, they are just decorations....

Ti Long uses a lot of jump cuts so you can never be confident how many shots it really took.

If you want a modern 7-ply with 5ply feeling, my recommendation is the Bernadette Szocs Signature 1. IT is a blade I would happily play with and I still may. But it is definitely thicker than your 6mm limit, but I love the feeling and the handle. I do not like the Powerwood, but since we have...

Oh, for everyone's viewing pleasure - an immobile guy in his 40s getting manhandled by a young man in his 20s...

Looking at my current game, I think I have been trying to work a bit too hard on weaknesses. There are two things I tend to do reasonably well - attack and block. The main thing I do poorly is read the opponent's spin and return serves. I think I will focus on enhancing my fitness so I can...

I guess the first thing IMHO is what level are you playing at and why is the situation high-pressure? Maybe it is because you really don't like losing and I get that, but for something to be truly high pressure, I think the consequences matter. For me, IMHO, unless you are a semi-professional...

Other than handle, it is the same as the Amultart - do you specifically need the Garaydia or do you just want a blade with similar composition?

Depends on your playing styles but on a blade like that, you need more rebound unless you have a lot of power.

On the "science" and "art" of matching blade with rubber, that is actually for each individual to decide for himself. There was a very good article on a blog that is gone now that had some great principles even if I wasn't entirely sold on the actual recommendations. The main thing is that you...

You forgot Croissant. Don't forget Croissant...

"The space between the ball and the net is defined by the ball, the net and its indefinite upward extension." The question is how to interpret this. I understand how some interpret it, but I don't think it means what they think it means (I could be wrong though). The guides for umpires usually...

Even if the contact is not visible. Some of those Hugo arm pulls may be late. Sometimes the head may block or the contact is behind the hip. Just keep looking for cues and fight through it. You will be grateful when in a high stakes match, the umpiring is had but you are used to playing...

Table tennis serving rules are a mess, let's just leave it at that. To play well, you have to just watch and read the ball better and forget about the serving rules, or you will lose matches just to thinking about dodgy serves. Even matches you could win. Otherwise, my dodgy serves will get...

The key phrase is 'infinite extension upwards'. It's a technical detail, in practice no one would call it an obstruction except the extra-logical type but the arm is still in that space when the ball is past the peak. And it is a common approach to serving, many people are much worse in...

The definition of the space between the ball and the net shows that the serve is not legal as the free arm is still in that space, but again, many players do not really care about these things as long as they can see the ball.

K3 is probably your best bet, though if you got rid of the sticky requirement, things like Dignics 05 are also reasonable.

The pendulum serve has an interesting history, as does serving in general. Most pendulum serves have the exact problem that you describe and most of the time, they are not deemed illegal in any meaningful way because the contact itself is usually visible, especially to a someone with the same...

I recommend K3 - lots of people who use it on forehand just use it as well on backhand because they find it just makes sense. Of course it has some performance degradation, but it is still a decent rubber after depending on how you play.

Yeah, you have to care about the way your paddle looks to care about such stuff. I determined aeons ago that the way my paddle looks has very little to do with how well it plays.

Since I gave an incomplete answer, let me add one more point - it is very important in table tennis IMHO to gather information from your "mistakes" as well as your makes. People who only think a shot is good when the ball lands on the table fail to use their mistakes to adjust. If you use your...