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Just musing a bit. After practicing the new form and thinking about it a lot, I've come up with a bit of a new approach to my "complete" BH and FH forms. On the FH side, I think the general feeling should be finding the ball with my right leg and then hitting the ball with my leg. It seems...

Hurricanes these days oxidize quickly. If you don't use protection sheets they'll lose their tack within a week. Use protection sheet though it'll keep the tack for the duration I use them for, which is ~3 months since I boost and that's about the time it's been reboosted enough that it's no...

I clean it at least once each session at the end, and use protection sheet consistently. The tack remains stable, but the grip is significantly less after 2-3 months. I play/train about 8-10 hrs a week. Grip and tack are simply two completely different things.

Just came back from a long trip, had a short training session vs the robot. The new FH form is looking good, so working on cementing it now. I was only able to get medium power single position shots with good consistency, so a lot of work still needs to be done. I'll be doing 2 positions next...

Yea I seal all my DHS blades, including multiple 968s, and some Butterfly blades as well. I also use fairly well boosted H3. I've had issues with DHS #15 sticking. Also zero splinters.

Watch Loki join those ranks :LOL:

They probably want Harimoto to be the first Japanese man to win the WTTC in I don't even know how long.

Had another solid practice Mon night. I'm now 2 weeks into my new FH training strategy, doing things by piecemeal. Last week's focus was on the legs, specifically weight transfer in a circular pattern, this week is on the body, specifically for it to move with the legs/hips instead of...

The issue was that China Post and HK Post stopped shipping small packages to the US. With or without the $800 exception nobody's really paying any tariffs anyway since they usually just declare the packages as gifts or a $500 value package for $3. As long as China/HK Post resume shipping...

I have an 89g ZJK ALC and an 85g TB ALC. The ZJK plays pretty much identical to my 89g Viscaria, soft feel, not too bouncy, crisp, nice but not amazing catapult with harder shots. The TB ALC has a harder feel, is significantly bouncier, crisp and has a bit better flex on harder shots but is...

Had a session at the Alameda club yesterday, first time in over a month. Man it's hard to play there occasionally, those Stiga tables are soooooo bouncy, it takes an entire session to get used to it lol. Too bad I won't have a chance to play there for probably another month, gonna be rough the...

It's not illegal to make or use non-ITTF approved equipment unless you're playing with it in ITTF sanctioned events. Do you have evidence that they were used in ITTF sanctioned events?

Thinking about Levenko's video re: knowing what type of player you are, I think I'm just an aggressive player, mainly due to a lack of patience. I used to think I'm very FH oriented, but now that I'm getting better with my BH, I'm getting super aggressive on that side as well. Basically in...

Unfortunately no, you can only change the duration of pre-serve countdown.

It's a soft sponge, when you cut it with a scissor the middle gets compressed, so the edges end up slightly longer than the center, at least that's been my experience.

I had a fun day at the club yesterday, played some matches against someone I partnered for doubles a few months back. I had already been implementing some of what Valenta's video mentions, but this time I especially kept it in mind. After winning the first match pretty easily, shocking him...

Get good rest my man, super important! I'd recommend the new video by Jan Valenta, a lot of super good info. A couple things I think would be especially helpful for you. Besides rest, I think another important thing he mentioned was that while in practice we should be mindful in terms of...

Part of my haul from before the tariffs hit.

I use the cylindrical sponge from Aliexpress. When cutting sponge the corners/edges always stick out a bit, resulting in streaks when applying glue, so I don't bother with it.

The biggest issue is that you're hitting the ball way too far in front of your body. When you do that you can't really make use of your arm (or body for that matter) for power. If you tried the ball would go way off to your right. What people typically do when they make this mistake is...