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I'm curious about the Danish Oil experiment. I noticed the handle of my HAL feels a little less...finished—a bit of a disappointment considering the price tag—but I don't want to add a grip to it, so if there's a way to smooth it out without making it slippery I'd be highly interested. DO is a...

Singe-ply hinoki is a strange beast. It's very soft, but springy and fast at higher gears. The softness gives dwell, so it's easier to create those big, arcing loops with a long stroke. Paired with H3 I imagine you get deadly topspin, but I don't know how your wrist handles that weight 😅...

Yeah, this looks like a good time.

If this happens, we need shirts/jerseys to commemorate! Something like:

I ordered one a few weeks ago and finally got a chance to hit with it a little bit, about two hours of training and an hour of match play. Not a lot of time yet, but it has already made an impression. Two words come to mind: Stability: Probably the best blade I've owned for blocking. It feels...

My wife and I usually take one big trip a year and have wanted to visit Germany for some time; this would be a great excuse. (At least for me! She's not much of a ponger 😅) Can we get Herr Boll as a special guest? 🥹

It sounds to me like, from a  player perspective, prize structure/incentivization is part of the problem. How many fans really care what the top prize is in $? I care about who wins, not about how much money they win. If the goal of advertising that is to say "Look how well we reward our best...

This is so true. And as an extension of this, not warming up the same way you play. I've burned myself a number of times by warming up a certain set of gears that land consistently only to try and use a higher gear(s) in the match and end up missing the table or overcommitting and not being...

Don't worry! "Former" will become "relapsed" if you hang around here long enough 😄

How well does Sueke work on non-Chinese rubbers? I've tried DHS15 and different Revolution formulas and they dried quick and adhered well but I have yet to find a glue that  actually peels from the rubber like people say it does. I can get both to come off cleanly from harder-sponge Chinese...

I asked TT11 and the heaviest they had at the time was 86g. Spinfactory may be a better bet.

Honestly TT is the only thing keeping me from tipping the scales from overweight to obese, but I feel the same about my weight affecting footwork—and my knees. I'm sure it doesn't help that my club has a hardwood gym floor instead of that nice PVC/rubber but I went from having 0 knee problems...

Here's a couple of options then, and they're even 100% wood! Their short game may suffer, but pros adapt.

59°?! I guess it's just a race to the hardest sponge now. Which will break first: the ball, or players' elbows? At what point does a rubber become too hard for a 2.7g ball to reliably compress? TT has already evolved into a pretty athletically demanding sport; at this rate players are going to...

I've been quite satisfied with my current blade (JOOLA Rossi Emotion) for some time now but then Xiom went and re-released this guy for a limited time and the EJ FOMO bug bit me hard in the arse. So now I'm the proud new owner of a Xiom Hugo HAL I didn't need 😂

Maybe he's testing both thickness to decide which one to choose. But this is an economical idea from the perspective of a non-sponsored player who can't just get two blades with both thicknesses of a new rubber whenever I want 😂

I've tried a handful of different things for grip. Butterfly is probably my second-favorite but ultimately I like this the best: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGRS7532 Ignore the negative reviews—they're all from people who don't realize you need to apply heat/flame directly to the grip to shrink...

Is that 185g with D09c+Z52.5? How are those hard sponges so light?? My 85g JRE is somehow at 192g with G-1 and Vega Korea glued to it 😵‍💫

Received my HAL yesterday. TADA! Weight is 85g on the dot, though probably technically a hair lighter since I had them seal it. 1465 Hz, which suggests it will be a bit faster than my JRE (1348 Hz) and close to my Stuor Long 5 (1453 Hz). I never got around to measuring the frequency of my...

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