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All I have repeatedly said is that you need to quantify your claims - they are plausible, like many things are plausible when they are not quantified. Of course you aren't stupid enough to claim that everyone should an asymmetric blade. But you are also being facetious when you argue in the...

The biggest things IMHO are 1. control your breathing so you breathe largely like you do when you practice. Don't let the circumstances force you to hyperventilate. 2. grade yourself by how well you try the things that you worked on in practice, not by whether you win or lose matches. This...

Given your estimated playing level, I would encourage you to work on your serving and blocking if you get so exhausted after 3 matches lol. I actually played 21 matches in a tournament in 2011, but I was just an underrated 1000 USATT player then. I won 4 or 5 events back then, I think from...

Stiff outer ply, yes, slow blade, it depends. But you know your game better than I do. You can do a lot of things to improve depending on your level, there is no simple answer. What currently prevents you from spinning more with Big Slam?

I hit with someone's Skyline 2 in the club yesterday. Very interesting rubber. Really tempted to try it.

Don't you mean TG3 Skyline Neo?

Why would you play a blocker style with Barracuda though? And on such a slow blade too? Clearly OP likes soft rubber but it isnt clear what he wants to improve about his forehand. I would say T80fx but not sure anyone wants to spend Tenergy money...

It is more about the player development and less about coaching in real time. For what I am discussing even watching video for 10 minutes after a match is fine or if the student can edit even better. Some students pay for this for sure and maybe more coaches should offer and charge for it...

Don't really care. In life everything has a reason, doesnt mean it is good or bad to point it out. My main point is that he could easily have watched Jslick record a match and use that as input. Too many coaches get away with stuff like this, which is unfortunate when you have a student...

It is virtually impossible to serve any pure topspin serve short, unless the topspin is extremely light or you are playing along the very longest diagonal, as topspin kicks the ball forward and upward. You can make the serve look short by making the first bounce closer to the net, but if the...

Your regular coach watching you is huge. I find it a form of coaching negligence for a coach not to watch his student in tournament matches (either live or video) and figure out drills/exercises to compensate.

The Cybershape Carbon should still be the same, the new one just has weights to make the blade heavier or lighter in the handle for feeling if the speed of the environment changes. The Cybershape Wood has limba, but that is outside the scope of this conversation lol.

So the one thing that Cybershape has in the plus column is that it is not ALC and it is not limba outer - it is Koto. But it is still innerforce. What that means for your feeling, I don't know, but for me that I hate koto, it makes a tolerable difference. I can't play with Viscaria/FZD/LGY etc.

Yes, Dragongrip is what they propose for that, maybe if I want to waste more money one day, I will try it. But for me, the attraction of Cybershape was going to a quick release rubber. but maybe for you, coming from innerforce already it might be different. But I will measure the blade...

It's a good blade but nothing super special. For some people, a bit better on flat hits and the thinner neck suits my grip more. Also encourages finishing forward since it has a bit more weight in the head. But I haven't used an innerforce ALC/ZLC in the while, it might be around that speed...

Curious how this blade plays, I have a few Garaydias that I never use, maybe this might be my motivation to use them if you like this setup. IMHO, the dwell time of Golden Tango makes every blade usable.

Yes, slowing down the opponent with variation and deception is helpful and if course if you have no chance in the short game, then go long. The most important thing is the quality of the serve and in my experience, a quality short serve is much harder to make than a quality long serve, but it...

The sport is complicated enough, in case it isnt obvious, that there are many solutions to issues, sometimes in blades, sometimes in rubbers, sometimes in practice and training and sometimes no significant solution at all. That's why we need evidence - to distinguish between reality and...

You should be able to answer all those questions with quantitative data to make your point and show why they are relevant. My point is any answer to them doesnr support your argument without assumptions that you have refused to be explicit about and when you are explicit about then, they show...

People have been selling asymmetric blades for a long time. But your original post makes it sound like most people are not buying asymmetric blades for reasons that you have not presented a strong factual basis for, including people who just want to copy what good players do and nefarious...