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The 729 battle III topsheet for me always start looking really ugly in short time no matter how much I care for it (what annoys me a lot), but yeah it plays well. The one I sold some Junior player like half year ago plays still decently despite looking dead-beaten as she plays at least 4 times...

It is clear the values provided are not enough to describe every aspect of blade behaviour. Still very useful and I have to admit few times I bought a second-hand blade based on the parameter values and I was quite happy with the result. For sure this website is a great effort to have some...

A fellow Equipment Junkie - hard to find a better forum for that than this one!

Thanks for very informative contribution about the view from the inside and internal politics

I am also a fan of this Donic handles. My colleague from club has this Donic Original Carbo Speed and he really loves it, I tried it and it was strange for me, fast, hard, also quite light on the weight I think. His topspins on both wings are great with it (rather thanks to his skills though :)...

Thanks, I saw once second-hand blade like that, but thought it is actually ST and maybe only looked strange because of camera angle. Now I think it may be just conical continuously getting wider.

By this CO I guess you mean AN (anatomical) handle? it is normally more bulky than FL in the upper part, I have Andro Treiber with that handle and it is great. In the past for most EU manufacturers like Andro, Donic it was possible to get AN version and sadly never for Asian ones (except maybe...

For cheap, usable and not really difficult to use rubbers I would go with either: Sanwei T-88 III Reactor Tornado V5 They are not really sticky - they appear to have some more tack than ESN, but plays not that different.

Do you see any difference between Loki Telson 100 and Loki Telson Germany? Not sure if there is any real or jsut a marketing trick. On the cover there are minimal differences in parameters Loki provides, but I am a bit skeptical. I played only with Germany (one of best BH rubbers for me) while...

This looks really reasonable for me structure-wise. No idea however about Gewo handles, never had in hand any of their blades. Can anyone compare their FL or ST shape with some more popular brands (Donic, Andro, Bty)?

Hopefully it helps you improve your serves. For me it was a game-changer and really helped me to see the amount of spin I create. I got same-sized one (8 rubber fields) from aliexpress for similar price you paid.

The cutter blade is 19mm, so with rubber of max 4mm (as we all follow rules :cool: ) the press must be able to fit 23mm of maximal width. I think it just depends on the bolt length.

Well thanks for the idea, because I felt like an idiot after reading that 😅 ("why I haven't thought about it?!". I own this basic aliexpress cutter and until now I used the rolling pin which worked, but was not perfect. As it has to be done rubber-up it caused rubber to detach on the edges...

As a reference link to thread about two asymetrical blades from Gewo: link I bought recently the Yinhe Pro 11S and while it plays great, the ST handle is awfully round (for me). Normally thick FL handles of Yinhe are best for me, byt this model has thin FL so I took risk woth ST and it is not...

Same here, in general ST handles of Donic blades from recent years are perfect shape in my opinion (previously had Donic original True Carbon Inner)

I see sometimes mentioned that cheap Sanwei 3-star balls are reasonably good for training purposes. However, I see often on aliexpress three types with similar price - gold, blue and red markers. Are there any difference between them or rather just same piece of plastic with different labels...

It is always interesting to look at some matches happening at the level what is not out of reach for us, mere mortals after watching WTT Tour :)

Your video on hook serve variations was really good so looking forward for this one!

For sure the contact point is always visible for his serves, but verticality of his tomahawk serve is not so great. However, players rarely complain about verticality of opponent toss, the contact point is apparently only thing they care (unless they want to play mind games or get opponent TTRed)

Wow this is really interesting composition of layers, thanks for spotting it. Gewo still need to work on their marketing. Also looks like there is not many places where you can get it.