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I can assure you the public does not have access to any kind of material that manufacturers do lol. I am not sure where "bending stiffness" came from, I didn't say that stiffness is what specifically changes, just feeling overall.

Whatever protective coating Butterfly uses in manufacturing isn't available to the public so I can only speak to experience with publicly sold sealers, and they can often (not always) lead to glassy feelings. This is pretty well documented. I'm sure you can minimize that by using a tiny amount...

Depends what you are talking about high level here, you are talking about only the best players in the world who are getting 40 blades per year. And even for those who have the option, many of them prefer to stick to a blade rather than switch it as soon as it wears out from gluing or minor...

No most don't replace blades every couple weeks. And they could absolutely detect the differences in gluing/boosting/weight in a blind test. Seen it happen plenty.

You can when you're a good enough player who is in tune enough with their equipment. The actual urban legend is that a difference in a few grams or an extra thick application of glue leads to differences that are imperceivable from other externally applied differences like booster or sealant.

Not really. No amount of gluing or blade-to-blade/rubber-to-rubber variation is going to create a distinct glassy feeling on contact to a blade that doesn't already have a glassy feeling. I've seen and heard enough anecdotes of sealing giving a glassy feeling in many instances.

Glue definitely has a huge effect on feeling too. But in the limited experience I've had with sealed blades they had a distinct feeling to them that unsealed version of those blades didn't have, a feeling that variation in gluing doesn't result in. But I guess that could've been due to the...

Don't understand what you're saying here

Cause it changes the feeling and is unnecessary for most modern blades especially Butterfly. Don't know a single high level player who seals their blades and I know many...

The article doesn't say that, it's two separate statements that shouldn't have been combined. Bad journalism. The court records showed that he pled guilty to simple assault.

He pled guilty to simple assault not sexual assault. That being said, I don't think anything good will come from this thread and whether it is Samson or PowerPong looking to sponsor @KTableTennis you need to make sure you understand what you are agreeing to because the reality is that when you...

If you are a top tier player the league will be willing to compensate better than if you are a low tier player. Nobody has to pay for their own flights there though for some players there may be a limit to the stipend. As I mentioned in a thread a while back, there are also things that are paid...

Still a bigger name to come...allegedly ;)

The Freeze flopped not because of its construction but because it was an outer ALC blade that retailed at a higher price point than a TB ALC/Viscaria and it also was extremely weak. So you would have basically been paying more money to get a worse TB ALC. I don't think the Freeze HRD is wildly...

In fairness, part of the delay in release is probably due to the fact that Hugo apparently hasn't even settled on a blade yet. Good luck on Joola not going the OEM route though, everyone except DHS, Stiga, and Butterfly basically have to...

Great post. This isn't a surprise to some of us as there was some discussion before about JOOLA and less than ideal management ... this same thing happened with Pitchford but they got somewhat bailed out by Pitch unrelatedly getting injured shortly after the signing. They have probably already...

Lol you could play in MLTT for sure? There are 2-3 more World Ranked top 50 joining it next season, and the lowest level male players will be 2650 at minimum. And if it's still around in 5 years when you're graduating high school, the level would be even higher. You think it's some sort of...

The Butterfly Japan website is very diligent about updating when players make changes, and their info is, not perfect, but very reliable.

No need to be ashamed, I spoke to a currently active CNT player and another non-CNT contender and they said the feeling is abundant amongst players and coaches as well

I think you are missing the point. I am not advocating 09c for beginners especially uncoached ones. Everyone knows that harder rubbers are more technically and physically demanding to use. But I am saying that if you think 09c is not suitable for beginners because it is hard and demanding of...