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My situation is a little special so I can be honest about it and mention that I am doing some things, but there's a relationship of trust and some sensitive data involved, so I can only provide very unconvincing sounding "proof". I'm always happy to have my brain prodded if someone wants to talk...

I'd +1 the idea to go to easier rubbers in the same line, but since he said he likes the Chinese style, I think it'd be fine to try a more forgiving version of a tacky Chinese forehand rubber too. It would save a bit of money too most of the time. Europe and Europe DF are generally cheaper than...

Stick with 5 ply allwood, it won't really matter which one, just get something you can afford and that you think you will like the handle shape of. I started with Stiga Allround Evolution and I enjoyed it, but you can probably get something similar for less. If you're going to use slow...

What if you like it and it's more durable than the cheaper blade? I hardly believe even half of table tennis players purely buy equipment for the sake of performance and nothing else.

Netprophet, while I understand your point, where else would you go to digitally sell a table tennis book made for table tennis enthusiasts than a forum full of table tennis enthusiasts? I feel like the online target audience is probably in there.

Maybe that's the secret? Make a fast allwood blade and paint it like carbon.

Not table tennis by any means, and not quite a sport in the sense you'd think of it. The validation is comparing performance in motorsport simulation laptimes against young pros who are keen in the sim (Important as many older drivers just can't get along with it), and also comparing sim...

I heard if you can find an honest politician, they'll know where to get one of these mythical carbon blades that feels like wood.

Listening to people correctly is a skill. It's easy to scoff at statements which aren't true in a technical sense and just ignore them as nonsense, although I find that people who do that are lacking theoretical understanding and just don't understand what is actually being communicated. I...

How do you make that decision?

Fair, maybe I should include a hyperbole warning in the future. My experience and the experience of my peers and superiors is that professional atheletes absolutely can get stuff pretty wrong. A lot of them have no clue how the sausage is made either, and they will tell you insane stuff that...

I figured, but I think you ought to rather try to find something easier to find, like the Holy Grail, or maybe Pandora's Box or something.

I think it's discontinued and hard to get, but in a literal sense, the Allround Classic Carbon seems like one of the closest things to a "wood blade feel with carbon in it". Not sure what advantages it has over the wood versions, though.

If you didn't know how T05 performs, would you have spent the money on it?

I must say I admire your dedication to your schizophrenic crusade against sponge boosting. You could use your time for something much better, but instead you've been the rubber manufacturers' and ITTF's lapdog for well over a decade, for apparently no personal gain.

I never claimed so, mostly because I don't believe that people are feeling changes that haven't happened. They're more likely feeling an actual change that has happened. The most obvious thing that comes to mind is a different glue surface adhesion, because last I checked we don't commonly...

You could lab test it if you want. Very likely it's a wax based wood varnish. No surface treatment should do anything to the feeling, that's just not how springs like this work. It could change the surface CF if you were hitting the ball bare with no covering, varnishes and waxes tend to be a...

Why not? You just buy it from the suppliers. Do you think Butterfly has some R&D lab where they're producing new elements? Feeling is a function of vibration frequency which is a function of stiffness. Sealing a blade does not, as far as measurements go, change any of its stiffnesses or...

It's very much so possible to change the shear strength of a material without changing its bending stiffness and so on. I can also assure you that the public has access to any kind of material that manufacturers do, this isn't some kind of security cleared, export-restricted good.

Factory pre-boosted sponges seem to have some kind of protective layer that prolongs it. Maybe some kind of stabilizer treatment. That being said, I did leave a H3N sitting for almost 3 years and it had 0 booster effect left when I tried it again. It was noticeably bouncier new. Has never been...