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Trust me, you may not enjoy the work it takes to ban the color guy. The mytt community ended up hating him even more than the mods and they report him even more than the mods, they sniff him out before we even see him. That's one of the reasons why mod teams are important, it definitely is too...

Long story short - it's up to ownership to take the need for a moderation *team* seriously. Good luck and thanks for your leadership and service.

Point taken. That said, there is a point to moderation that promotes an atmosphere. It's a difficult balancing act for sure, as a life without problems and conflict is not fun. But the balancing act between banning trolls and ignoring them for me is a no-brainer on a site like this one where...

Everything you wrote is spot on. Everyone has a ratio somewhere between how they would like to play and whether they would like to win playing another style. If you would win more matches in 6 months time if you put long pips on your backhand, would you do it? The answer is different for...

There is a reason he is banned on other forums. he makes up his own facts, insults people and expects to be taken seriously.

Video of you almost beating Waldner? The Gaponova video is on youtube.

He likes to argue from imagination, not from evidence. Not from reality. Bergstrom and Haponova/Gaponova use pips, Gaponova almost beat Wang Manyu. Even when his beloved frictionless pips were in fashion, no high level players used them and defenders were already considered a dying species.

Agreed, and they are a weapon against the overuse of power in the game, bringing back an element of thought and control and strategy that it to some degree seems like that ITTF have been trying to kill IMHO.

I think all the innovations have largely gone towards supporting the looping game, I think the frictionless long pips that are now illegal should have been allowed to stay, and let players adjust to them with practice. But again, that is my view.

1) I assume you meant asymmetric. 2) You claim it is not available only because major manufacturers do not typically make asymmetric blades while acknowledging that custom manufacturers exist, contradicting yourself? 3) Just because something is possible doesn't mean it has to be available...

I didn't say that, I said that in the absence of empirical evidence, they might be making an appropriate amount. How many more asymmetric blades should they be making? I have said that the market is not that large, you have claimed it is larger than zero %, which I agree with, but how much...

Claims are not explanations. And again, when I have said repeatedly that asymmetric blades are one solution for a small niche of players, and that your claims are empirically dubious, it shows an inability to comprehend the rules of logical implication when you continue to argue that just...

Well, Carl has decided not to ban you, so you are a tool for amusement.

Rubber/sponge combinations create sufficient asymmetry for most players and that is the standard. In the case that a more custom solution is required, that can be sought from a specific blade maker. But given the sensitivity of equipment to training and the fact that all equipment has...

No, I am saying that problems need to be quantified to understand their relative impact/seriousness. If there is a significant market for asymmetric blades, major manufacturers will get into making them. The market is largely covered by custom blade makers and given the ability to customize...

Of course you never did, you argued from a property that is likely universal to a conclusion that is empirically dubious. I sometimes have a better backhand than forehand on one day and then a better forehand than backhand the next day. Should I get asymmetric blades for each circumstance or...

Since the post references asymmetric blades as one option amongst many, I am not sure why you think it tries to prove what it clearly contradicts.

It is like saying that shoe manufacturers should make the left shoe slightly bigger than the right shoe if someone has slightly different sized feet, like most human beings actually do. In practice, the problem is small enough to ignore and most people compensate by just finding a size both...

I have admitted that many players swing with stronger forehands than backhands in racket sport. What that means for racket sport depends on many things about the racket sport. What does that mean for symmetry or asymmetry? Just about any conclusion can follow from this. Should the backhand...

Here are a couple of matches against players rated 400 pts below me by their official USATT ratings. I won both matches deuce in the 5th. My shot selection wasn't smart, I tried to end a lot of points early, I think I even lost a 10-3 lead in the 5th in one of them. But in the end, if the...