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Is it that expensive from Aliexpress? Buying from there in the USA the price is nearly half that of aD09C ($45 vs 80)

Provincial grade? Hurricane has a thick topsheet, perhaps that's it?

Yeah, against this type of shot using long pips, you need to do a sort of "super chop" where you are both brushing the ball and hitting it forwards with a lot of force, super high risk and slim window for success otherwise you will miss the table or give back a weenie ball that is easy to kill

All 3 very different blades. The basic KLH is a 5 ply wood, both the SK7 and Viscaria are faster and stiffer. The SK7 will retain a softer more natural wooden feeling than Viscaria but it will also play thicker and stiffer, whereas the Viscaria has the numbed feeling and stiffer faster...

probably the Tibhar Patrick Chila

I mean when you look at the price differential on Aliexpress, $10-15 is what separates a product with questionable quality and consistency (commercial grade) with a product made to pretty reasonable industry standards (provincial #20). Especially if one is boosting and hitting hard, getting...

I've tried a 982 and it doesn't feel like real Hinoki. Real Hinoki is very soft and the 982 I tried felt very hard and dense. It's probably a similar wood but its definitely not the good conventional Hinoki, thats why its so cheap in comparison

I'm wondering, if there are methods or tricks that are recommended to help you 'peak' your performance and mindset when it comes to playing large tournaments, as well as maintaining your performance during the length of the tournament? I havent really participated in legit tournaments for about...

Are you wet gluing or dry gluing? If you rolled on the rubber using dry method it should not come back up

Spinmax?

If I'm using light rubbers like Dignics, then definitely a blade with larger headsize like Harimoto or Ovtcharov, but thats just me.

I wouldn't call Glayzer all that much slower than G1, it mostly just scales a bit differently. Its got a softer sponge than G1 so it tops out sooner but activates easier. Topsheet also has a bit less grip than G1 but its less wild imo, its a very predictable rubber so it may be what you're...

I felt PK50 is just a better performing rubber overall. G09C is a bit more stable and less reactive though

Good idea in theory but if anything the challenge calls were only really good for stalling the match, time taken to process a challenge call lasted longer than a timeout. No challenges were successful during week one but there were only a couple that I thought were really able to be proven with...

Yup, and Bryce and Sriver series used to be industry leading products used by Boll, Schlager, KLH, Ma Lin etc. but you do not see them used in any capacity amongst professionals nowadays. They are no longer in the current equipment meta, same as T64.

Sure, as evidenced by the number of players using these rubbers over D05/D09C

The ability to impart spin and speed is definitely affected by athleticism and physical strength, and its foolish to pretend it is not so.

Easy to produce offensive quality, but it is very soft and bouncy with the Hinoki +ZLC combo. A lot of advanced players do use Amultart, Koki Niwa was using one a long time ago, but you'll find a vast majority of really good players do not need the extra oomph that Amultart offers. ZLC as a...

H3 with #22 sponge is almost exclusively used on the forehand side

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