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Unless you are Tommy Zai, the unstoppable EJ madman!

Guess ZJK had a lot of time to kill when he stopped training ten hours a day. Should have taken the FZD route and played video games, it's way cheaper.

Timo Boll for me too. My last name is also an adjective, so it could get confusing to use only Boll, or T. Boll format

I use those two serves a lot, and both are intended to put my opponent out of position, and if possible off-balance. Long side-back I will serve either very wide off the fh side of a lefty, or off the bh sideline vs penholders (who I play more than 50% against), or into the pocket of...

Now that you broadened it to T05 I can comment, have no knowledge of T19. If your experience is anything like mine, your rating and level of play will be the same with Rozena or T05. T05 will make more Wow! shots, and every shot will have some small percentage more speed and spin. That small...

Well, maybe 1200 - 2200 is too wide a range to produce useful list? The video NL shared went in 300 point intervals which is maybe too tight but closer to reality than a 1,000 rating point range. For example he put Rozena in 1400 - 1700. Which if he is speaking in in TTR is 1650 - 1950...

This fits with what I said about T05 v Rozena. Use Rozena if you like the spring sponge feel but don't want tenergy for reasons of price or control/skill. If the feel of Bty sping sponge isn't important for you then there is absolutely no reason to use Rozena, or tenergy either.

LOL, did you choose G1 cause you know I played with it for two years? Yes, G1 is a good ESN for me. It's a little bit false to compare because I trained a lot since using G1 and my game is very different on forehand now. But I would say Rozena has some better spin potential than G1, but G1...

I guess the answer to the OP depends on how high you set the bar for 'good'. Rozena users will probably say everything is good, otherwise we wouldn't be using it. There are 1,000,000 other choices. People who tried Rozena can really only say they didn't like it. Fair enough, if you didn't...

LOL, I did at least 200k practice bh loops vs backspin before I accepted it would never be good and switched to pips bh. 1000 is like one or two days worth. I trained that stroke for four years and still gave up after. About success rate dingyibvs is right, BUT, only if you are playing...

imo it's bc you are thinking to hit the ball hard, with power. you want to loop but like a loop kill. this thought in your brain makes your muscles tense up and you lose the timing and fine motor control need to actually make a nice, safe, spinny loop. try only looking at the ball and...

Limited experience with these but fwiw. A guy at the club plays cpen block/smash with inverted and he switched to colored spinfire on one side. He is using a hexagon (cybershape) and some other very fast blade. The spinfire really works for him. It blocks better than his inverted, and...

Interesting. In the US rozena was $40 for years already (on sale, but sale went forever). Glayzer will be $54 to start.

D09c too hard, not dynamic at all. Prefer H8 or Battle 2 if I would use a hard rubber. D05 I tried only on other people's bat, but was so bouncy and uncontrollable I felt no desire to spend $90 to try on my own blade. That's just me, obviously they work for other players. But since the OP...

No. Not at all, when compared to the difference between practicing and not practicing because you are scared the table will mess you up. Practice.

This is not my experience with Rozena. Mine last about as long as normal tenergy and longer than fx. At an intermediate level, basically everyone writing on a forum, Butterfly offers three options imo. Depending what you prioritize, choose: Rozena if you want to land more loops on the table...

for the same reason why we do not speak Chinese

Imo Filus should be made to attend remedial safe-bat-throw training in place of all his normal training sessions for the next month. Penalty enough, and will protect future camera people and ballkids.

One topspin one push works well vs choppers. Against LP pushblockers it works exactly until you meet one who can take your heavy topspin and block it back with light backspin or even dead. In the US usually ~1800 rating. When you push that you are fucked.

No, I never used any of the hard ESN stuff. I'm too weak for hard sponge, it does nothing for me. My rubber ejing is pretty limited. I played T05/fx/80/fx for years. Then G1 for years, wasted a year on battle 2 and various hurricanes boosted and not, and now circled back to rozena.