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He is also advertising for his sponsors. People should not be so naive about these things.

Maybe you are right. Maybe if I spent some time testing G1 next to MK, maybe I will realize that my impact depth and swing speed have reach a point where neither rubber works for me anymore and they are more similar than different. I have my doubts about this, I felt G1 and C1 were both more...

All my house guests are gone so I managed to get out to a club today at a recreation center to play. I didnt realize it before moving to Texas but I chose a relatively poor location to live for TT. While there is one weekly location about 25 minutes away on Sundays, most locations are 40 mins...

If you serve short and someone can always push the serve short, then maybe you are serving too obviously short. and maybe too short. But if he is determined to loop, he is going to loop if you go long first. You can't prevent that. unless you get the ball go long first for you and you decide...

He isn't hyper-aggressive, he is playing high level table tennis. When I got coaching from a national level coach, he told me that short game is the biggest thing that distinguishes the high level players, and that pushing long on a regular basis was a death sentence at that level. IF he has...

This is my kind of table tennis - thank you!

Maybe, but he actually finds D05 slow and hard to use. It's not like I don't beat the guy ( I usually do), but I find his spin just counterintuitively heavy - short strokes but there is massive rotation and sometimes incredible speed. So far, I haven't felt a player doing the same with D05 but...

Depending on playing style, requiring more effort might be a good thing. The thing I found about D80 maybe it was the speed of the opponent's racket, it felt it played a lot like T05, where he got good spin with very short strokes.

The technique seems off because the backswing is inadequate and you are changing the plane of the stroke aggressively while swinging and not letting the elbow do the work. There is a "C" - shape out of which the modern backhand starts - if you get to that "C" shape and play out of it, the need...

It's weird, but the person whose spin frustrates me the most uses D80. I need to try it for myself sometime.

Even changing from All+ Blade with T05 to Schlager Carbon with T05. You will lose all the feeling and gain tons of speed, but if you have used the rubber before, it is easier to see what the blade is doing. With rubbers, pimple configurations can have a massive effect as well as tack, sponge...

Yeah, when I read his post, I was thinking maybe I need to try G1 again, because that is definitely not how I remember it. I played G1 on all wood, I think I would break my shoulder playing MK on all wood, lol!

The problem with serving sidespin to pips usually isnt just about reading the ball, it is sometimes about the ball coming back either knuckle if the pips player hits the ball or coming back with a sidespin that kicks if they don't and if you don't anticipate the kick, it can cost you points...

I don't know much about the Ebenholz (I think it might be a harder outer ply but that is about it). The Butterfly Innerforce blades are limba outer plies so that is one consideration. IMHO, the more important thing is to find a player you like who does what you intend to do at a reasonable...

The SZLC will have a higher throw angle than the T5000 for sure, at least when looping hard. Don't ask me for all the physics, but T5000 is really like a brick, I can only stand it in innerforce blades or hinoki carbon. For the pips, a lot comes down to technique, many people who hit with pips...

The Cybershape is a pretty fast blade when you hit hard, but definitely, use whatever you prefer. I haven't tried the Glayzers, but they sound like blade speed dampeners lol. I wouldn't be surprised to find they were in the GT range, but I do like GT when I go for it, but it definitely is not...

Why not your Glayzer tubbers?

Not at all. Butterfly makes a lot of blades with virtually the same composition, the only variables are handle design, which is very important, but sometimes used by reviewers to tell stories that are clearly unscientific and whose storytelling may be revealed if more things (weight, blade...

The funny thing is that seeing you play some of those advanced loopers in the past, I thought you already knew to press/close over the ball on heavy spin and you were looking for something extra. Blocking should adapt to the spin. More topspin needs to be suppressed by reducing the exit angle...

Lol. Not really. The Zhang Jike series uses Koto as well. Not sure who gave him bad information.