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Happy New Year @TableTennisDaily team! Thanks for running a great forum—cheers to a forum that can still thrive in the era of social media—and for all the fun YouTube content of the past year. My only firm table tennis goal for 2026 is to get good enough to not embarrass myself at the meetup...

Well, as you said we don't have the full context. Is it possible Hugo took a pay cut to move to Joola, where he (potentially) has a personal relationship with someone? It is, but that's his prerogative. We could also be seeing Joola stepping up on the TT front, maybe putting some of that...

Why would a personal connection be a "bad reason" for choosing a sponsorship? It happens frequently in other sports. It's essentially the crux of a recruiter's job: to make a personal connection with a target recruit and make the recruit feel more comfortable joining their team/company over...

Now wouldn't  that be a coup...

Both G-1 and Rakza 7 are good for learning looping and proper weight transfer, timing, and acceleration. I learned on R7 before "upgrading" to G-1 but they aren't significantly different; G-1 just feels like it has a higher ceiling than R7 while still being fairly linear. If you're stepping down...

Reading Marty Reisman's HOF entry and some other bits about him he was certainly a character but it's hard to gauge how much Marty Mauser's narcissistic behaviors truly reflect Reisman. Mauser is hard to like. The real Marty? Only those who knew him can say. I think if they'd told his story...

I think the issue you run into is having your new surface veneer oriented horizontally (which changes its properties), or else reducing the structural integrity by stacking two vertical veneers. Both of these run counter to conventional blade-making wisdom, though I don't fully understand the...

Went to see the movie tonight. What a wild ride. As movies go it's a good film with a lot of great acting and fun cameos, but there's little chance it moves the needle on the sport in any meaningful way. For one, it's very adult; if kids aren't seeing it, they aren't begging their parents to buy...

R7 has the same sponge hardness as G-1, though I believe the topsheet is a little softer. C-1 and Rozena are both good options that are harder than R7 Soft but softer than G-1. If you like G-1 and just want something easier to engage the sponge then take C-1. Rozena does everything fairly well...

This sort of proves SorryForTheEdge's point. I love Omega V Tour and find it a very manageable speed...except when I put it on a Vega Tour (blade) which seemed to make everything fast. Blade has a big effect.

I typically get Chinese equipment from AliExpress. Shipping takes forever, but I haven't run into any issues with legitimate products, just make sure to find a vendor with a lot of sales and preferably specializing in TT. I recently bought a Kirin K5 for $12 and like it a surprising amount. But...

This is all good information to have in your initial post. I think the "best" answer is that practicing to improve your weak points (ideally with a coach) is better than any equipment changes, but I'm also more of a moderate in that I think a certain amount of comfort with your equipment and...

This is the Pro 01, from their US website.

Pro 01 is outer (Viscaria composition), Pro 02/03/05 are inner (with Pro 05 matching W968 composition).

Living the EJ dream, I see... Blades All Wood: Tibhar Stratus Powerwood, Butterfly SK7, Nittaku Acoustic Inner: One of the Butterfly inner ZLCs (e.g. Harimoto IF ZLC), Hurricane Long 5 (or W968 if you're feeling spendy) for inner ALC Outer: Viscaria/Timo Boll ALC/FZD ALC (or Yinhe Pro 01 if you...

I'm currently playing G-1 on a Donic Skachkov Carbon as my training setup, which is also koto-aramid carbon-ayous-kiri and has been described elsewhere as "somewhere in between a Viscaria and a Korbel or IF ALC," which sort of sounds like what you're looking for. Having used a Viscaria for a bit...

It's possible. To be clear, it's not that the thing pops out or anything, it's more like the movement of my feet in the shoes tugs on the lacing just enough to loosen it a little bit over time. Not enough to worry about the shoe coming off, but I start to notice a little less lateral support. A...

Dang, wish they'd had the black-and-gold when I ordered mine. I've seen the teal ones from Yasaka, very similar shoe. Overall they're a decent shoe. Good grip on a variety of surfaces but don't excel in any particular area. The lacing system is convenient but I find it loosens over time and I'm...

Different player. This was in reference to Yang Xiaoxin, the player with W968 is Yiu Kwan To. Please read more carefully before attempting to correct people.