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As others have hinted at, these are questions you can only answer for yourself, especially in the absence of people seeing your playing style. To be honest, even if 95% of the people on this website were to review Dignics 09c, unless they were in the 5 percent I have seen play or whose rubber...

Okay. With the better custom topsheet and sponges that the pros supposedly use, how often do they use and change their rubber? A year? Is it because they don't know how to care for their rubber? Timo Boll and many pros were simply using T05H before it became publicly available ,(at their...

Watching a player do something without understanding how his technique evolved leads to some of the most interesting questions in table tennis, questions which in my opinion should not be interesting at all, b but I will let tbe thread speak for itself. You hit your the ball with your...

GTPS uses the Rhyzer sponge, which I believe is 50 degrees, so I think what you are saying makes perfect sense. I find GTPS harder to block with.

I know you've mentioned this before, but please forgive me for asking again - for helping my context, how does Golden Tango compare to these for you?

There are few related topics to this, do you think pros use rubbers for a year? Some of it comes down to how deeply you spin the ball and deform the pips and wear the topsheet over time. Also the consistency of your contact area, as hitting the ball consistently around the same region wears...

Hopefully someone can help you, I haven't used sponge to clean my rubber in over 10 years. Water/breath and fingers is the usual with rare uses of paper towel for drying (and for that reason, it is definitely the kind of thing that would have been better as a new topci).

That looks like a straight handle Viscaria or Viscaria SALC

I know you use Rakza Z on forehand, maybe I should have made that clear. I am just telling you the things I wish people told me when I started in 2011. Maybe I wouldn't have listened, but at least the ball was different back then and I at least mostly played a pushing and blocking style...

So there are a couple of videos I will recommend to you. I started serious TT maybe 4 years younger than you did. Most people who see me assume that I started much younger but I tell them that I suspect I'd be stronger if I didnt have arthritis, I had knee issues which got worse over time, I...

I am a huge fan of using the same rubber on both sides for a variety of reasons, the main one being that you can transfer aspects of your understanding of technique easily across both strokes, but if you are sure that you want to play high level offense with power as your focus, honestly with...

It doesn't mean much next to the training hours. That said, there are times you play a style that is automatically enhanced by equipment you haven't tested yet. When you test it, you realize it, but without testing it, you don't - for example, I needed time to get back into the game but...

The last video is private. The drills look basic but it still isn't entirely clear what you are trying to achieve or improve. Let's remember that most table tennis points don't last more than 3‐4 shots in total so it is important to bring your weapons early. If you are aiming for power, the...

To punch through the ball for the most part. The number of people who don't know how to block consistently because they refuse to direct the ball on their blocks is unfortunately high.

To expand on #3, there is an interview with Saive where he discusses how much tactical knowledge China collected on him. He talks about one match where the coach was unavailable and he got a lead and when the coach showed up, his opponent made a comeback. Knowing where your opponent likes to...

Yes yes yes. The first and third eapecially, the second is just reinforcement for bad days.

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Phil, at every level, it is very hard for a one sided forehand player to beat a consistent blocker, especially one who knows how to move the forehand player around. Especially with this new ball, blocking is much easier so you need to be able to hit more shots to win points. For forehand...

I honestly think that people are drawing conclusions that are too strong from one match - the Japanese men did pretty well in the last WTTTC. It's unfortunate that they dealt with an inspired opponent who was motivated to win and the fear was contagious after Harimoto lost and the Iranians put...

Phil, Well done. Like I said this takes time and patience. Someone like Mark, he uses a very fast blade and blocks the ball very well. He has played and practiced with really good players so he knows how to block quality loops. When I tried to use a Rambo approach to beating him, I would...