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Amateur and pro is a very wide and deceptive designation. Wood can be enough. But composite technology has major advantages as well - in fact, while I keep on saying "carbon blades" as a catch all for what are really "composite blades", there is a lot of interesting stuff that composites do to...

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I think there is a lot of room in TT for finding controllable rubbers powerful and powerful rubbers controllable. Is sticky rubber powerful or controllable? Does a rubber that gives you more spin and speed at low to medium impacts more powerful? Or is a rubber that holds the ball and spins...

Nowadays, it is easy to use phone software to test one of the major vibration frequencies and use that to see whether a blade is similar or different. I find that the differences in blades often shows up in the frequency measurement. I liked one Carbonado 190 and its frequency seemed to be in...

That's true, but it is also a rationalization of a choice. Unless you conducted some kind of experiment, it is hard to be clear on the difference between what you play best with and what you enjoy playing with. One could argue that most of my best results have come using slower equipment for...

Well, it depends on what country you are in, but most people I know somehow or someway have access to someone or something that allows them to test blades. And table tennis is a sport that allows most people who are in a tech career in the US to EJ a lot. I get that my giving my specific...

I can play with both, but I find that all wood adds more and more weight to the head to play the way I want it to, because my preferred head size is like the Mazunov/Ovtcharov 158 by 152 and that adds weight with today's heavy rubbers. In the end, whatever a person develops sufficient feeling...

Many pros gave up on all wood (Simon Gauzy, Vladimir Samsonov) as the plastic ball fully came in. Some people try but they aren't at the very top of the game (Kristian Karlsson, Thiago Monteiro) and just about all of them are at least using 7 ply though Korbel is probably still using his blade...

I have 3 Mazunovs, 2 Innerforce T5000s, have had 4 Korbels at one time, had 2 Boll T5000, had two Stiga Carbonados which were like fraternal twins of different sexes, had a Carbonado 145 that played slower than a Carbonado 45 etc. I have often bought blades to have backup setups and realized...

The real issue is that there are no stakes. But if there were stakes, you would be more happy with the format. Money makes you appreciate the way the length takes out the randomness of the result. However you play them is your choice, and I don't think the smash approach is necessarily the...

It actually favors the better player (which was Jeff in this case).

I am not disputing their workmanship, I am disputing all these claims about the blades playing differently when they are just the same blade with slightly different handles (which is important, but not enough to make them play as differently as you all are making out). If you have bought...

The video is older and was on the TTD channel when Dan first played the robot. This is just a shorter version made to get views on Youtube Shorts or such things...

People are really overthinking this. Wood is a living thing but if you tested the blades side by side, most of your preference will be in the handle design and not in the blade per se

I actually support the switch to faster equipment but I think you should start with your rubbers first. Mark V is really old school slow unless you are a flat hitter or you speed glue. And the Yasaka Extra while slow does have a harder outer veneer that will propel the ball if you make good...

Fastarc G1 and Fastarc C1 are pretty similar to MX-P topsheet wise, just not as boosted or fast in their sponge.

BRS played well. That's just a tough opponent. That's my opinion and I am sticking to it.

Oh, the guy definitely shows his true level in game 2.

Watching the first game, I can tell that the guy in blue doesn't think there is a chance in hell he can lose. And watching his strokes, I see a fairly high level which I went to Omnipong to confirm. That said, analysis might illuminate but it can't tell the whole story.

The Spambots are really really annoying.