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Lol @ players in the top 100 getting knowledge checked.

What are the concrete aspects of a handmade blade that are better than commercial ones? Is it more suited to your hand shape? Exact balance you want? Just better manufacturing tolerances?

Is it cost-effective for you to manufacture these? Compared to commercial blades of similar spec and quality.

The softer sponge releases slower, with a lower hz and spring rating. That's why they produce a slower ball.

That doesn't make sense; the softer sponge will compress sooner/more. The reaction force will just be lower on the rebound.

I feel a need to reply to this; cycling for 10-20km, or god forbid, marching for 50-80km (Do you want him to get injured?) will not be as effective as a weightlifting routine. You are also likely overtraining if you have constant fatigue and pain. Results should appear quickly, not after a year...

Chicken is generally one of the cheaper meat-based protein sources. It's not that hard to pan fry or oven bake chicken. Combine with a carb like pasta or rice and some vegetables. You will be doing this for years, so it needs to taste acceptable too. Realistically though, don't worry about what...

Strictly physically speaking, if the material constant is the same and the only thing that changes is the ply thickness, the thicker blade should be overall faster and have less dwell time due to the higher natural frequency IMO. Although an actual blade physics expert can correct me if I'm wrong.

If you catch it on tape, you have a much more objective indicator of what is happening and why. You can take note of what happens and count the times the opponent does a wide forehand ball and correlate it to serve and serve receive and get a concrete % to work off. Of course, you'd need many...

It sounds to me like people are noticing you stay in the backhand zone and play wide to the forehand on purpose. I can't give you advice due to my extremely low level as of current, but I can say I have a similar issue, and I've personally began to fix it by just standing a bit more central and...

A post appropriate of your forum status, I guess. Keep it up, high quality stuff.

It's a tough game this one. It's difficult enough that you can't even just go slower and still always keep the ball in play; even at turtle pace right over the table there will come something that will be 5% different and make you miss! Maybe not in 10 balls, or 100, but it will. Life would be...

My quads were still a bit stiff from the last session. Not injured or painful, just like when you start going to the gym again. Maybe that shifted more load to the back and glute. Did yours happen as a result of the leg injury, or because the leg injury made you compensate with other muscles...

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: Playing too hard these last days after a big break has made me break my ass; specifically my right glute and the very right lower back is pretty sore on the step and twist. 😅 It is getting better, but it's not exactly something I want to repeat. Doing some plank...

Personally I'm going to save my money and instead of buying fancy special equipment that is 1% better use that money on coaching. At most people's level that will be a higher ratio of benefit to cost.

It's so much less tacky than I expected and have seen before, even compared to a 2 years old regular H3 I tried, that it must be intentional. Maybe western market H3 is now less tacky to suit western player's games better? It should add some spin and speed when there is less hysteresis from the...

Hit a bit today at another club. Getting my ass handed to me by seniors using rubber so old it's basically antispin, because I'm not yet in my groove again. Almost no spin on my serves either. Coach was coaching some teenagers and asked me to play some games with them, they beat me but I did...

Can confirm, my H3 Neo I bought literally yesterday has barely any tack compared to the 729FX I bought some 7-8 years ago.

Just from a kinetics standpoint, it might play similarly in the short game despite the harder sponge because sponges are progressive springs with probably some hysteresis. It might respond very similar to small inputs, perhaps having an almost identical linear region in the small forces, but...

One thing I read in "Ultimate Speed Secrets", about motorsport: There was a driver who was always thinking about crashing. It didn't help that his mechanics kept saying "Don't worry, if you crash it, we can fix it". He kept looking at the outside wall on corner exits, hoping not to crash into...