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Had my first hit with my new Blade the Gambler Fire Dragon Fast. This is coming off the blade I've had for 3+ years in the Gambler Fire Dragon Touch. I've talked glowingly about the Fire Dragon Touch. Very spiny & controllable. Too early to call on the Fire Dragon Fast but I wanted more speed...

Blade: I just picked up the Gambler Fire Dragon Fast in penhold. I've had the Fire Dragon Touch for 3+ years and quite honestly it's a nice quality blade for a small investment. I've said time & time again that the I put the quality of my Fire Dragon Touch right next there equal to my Stiga...

The best 2 things I read here which I full agree with are... - Play more tournaments. This way you'll get use to the feeling. Or at least somewhat. - Nobody outside of yourself really cares how good or bad you do. So don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself. I cannot agree with this more. We...

I thought I read once somewhere people claiming that Stiga blades with their NCT (which is some type of hard diamond coating.) wears off over years and therefore loses some of its hardness & thus power but I don't know. That's just one particular brand and line of blades which I'm not even sure...

I don't know if I can answer this for you and furthermore, you didn't direct the Q to me but I'll say this... And you probably know this. But TT is too much of a matchups game to form a solid opinion on what X rating is. Player A beats player B. Player B beats player C. So player A should kill...

Very cool video. Question for how league play within teams works. Our club runs 1 tournament a year but I think it would be cool if we could add a 2nd team tournament to add withing the year but I don't know how those are typically set up? Are they round robins? Everybody plays everybody and...

Virtually impossible for us to give any insight on this one without seeing video of your play.

Hard to call. Right this instant? yeah I'd probably say FZD. It's weird because best player in the world in a given instant can change. Not that long ago you could say Xu Xin. Earlier this year you certainly wouldn't say it was FZD. Then of course you have ML who we haven't seen as much but I...

Single sided SPs. Old-school. I like it. So i'm generalizing a bit here but here's my take on single sided penholders. This is an athlete's position IMO. I think single sided penholders when they are young should largely play like RSM did when he was in his early 20s running around everything...

I'm not sure if you mean low spin topsins As in almost dead or when you talk about them being low you mentioned vs net height so I'm thinking you mean low bouncing topspins to your BH. In either case, I'll address kinda overall what I try to do. Take this with a grain of salt as I'm left handed...

I use to have the Newgy 540. Weaker motor. It hated plastic balls as they are bigger than celluloid ones. It could shoot them out but it was a struggle to say the least. Then a buddy let me borrow his 2050. It shot them out better but i'm pretty sure that was only because of the stronger...

I must have been in a weird mood last night. So there's this cadet kid who always challenges me and is getting better & better every day. (he should. he plays like 6 days a week). Anyways, I use to always beat him and of recent it's 50/50 if I win or lose. No real surprise there. But last night...

Oh good one. Got me. You know what you're right. I wasn't following & you're completely fine with no issues at all. But please elighten us. Can you expand upon why it's chringey if a white girl were to get dreds after visiting the Caribbean and as you say speak in patois after such a visit? I'm...

Speaking about cringey. How about use terminology indicating that someone is acting like another (in this case "another country" was used but in many of the cases you pointed out, you could just say race. See example of white girl with dreds. Now you weren't inflammatory with your comments so...

Asking for a friend here but legitimately, where are you getting carbon layers to put in there? Blades look great BTW

Depends on the user & how much you play and what your level is. If you're really high level, you might notice more fine differences over time. I joked with a buddy at club playing short pips that while I like to switch inverted rubbers roughly every 6 months or so, he could keep his 802 SPs on...

To my understanding is that by leaving the plastic film on, you're not letting the booster do what it's intended which is to stretch the topsheet giving that trampoline effect. Furthermore, I'd imagine that'd put a lot of stress on the glue joints from pips to sponge when the sponge is trying...

Checked out your last video of RPB. Punch & fast. Seems to me you have blocking & hitting with that down pat. If I were you, I'd keep with that. I mean that's a good RPB. Even thought I'm a primarily TPB player, that's just my style. If I could simply pick my style, I'd do what you're doing and...

Hit with a more experienced partner over lunch today. Same thing, which is nice. He made a comment how I seem more consistent on the BH. I don't know if it's a placebo effect or something with just me or the fact that I legitimately feel the blade slips slightly less and I have better control...

I certainly think there's a shift from the celluloid days to now the plastic ball. I believe (and opinions are like armpits. Everybody has then and they all stink :P) that the celluloid ball was ALL about spin and the notion was to spin everything. That worked for me as a spin based player. But...