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I came across this Samson Dubina video the other day in replacing a handle. He boils his blade in water for X amount of time to soften the glue then he pops it off. Has anybody tried this method? Would this damage the wood? Would it matter given only the handle is in the water? Would it be...

For sure this. I don't recall seeing one side labeled as the strong side but clearly it was there. Taking that sheet of my blade was the biggest pain in the A I've ever had. heat gun and alot of rubbing with my fingers... Wonder if I should have tried a non-acetone finger nail polish remover...

Dan might chime in here (good video by the way TTD) but man as I was reading your part of being afraid to use it I just don't get or don't follow. It just tells me then you're not using it enough, or at all in practice matches to figure out your best setup. Big tournament or league play where...

I'm sure this will be taken by some as "he thinks FZD doesn't have great footwork." He does. We all know that. But I did kinda find funny the very first highlight a play where he was reaching and just hit a great shot. To me that wasn't a demonstration of great footwork rather of pure...

I use to have the EJ bug. And have tried several Chinese Tacky rubbers and a 1-2 ESN euro rubbers throughout the years. In the end H3 is my favorite. I prefer tacky topsheets for my game and despite there being tons of Chiese tacky rubbers to choose from, I think H3 is the most popular for a...

Oh man this is so good. Here's a fun game. Pick your 1 favorite from each post of Baal. They're grouped together. Keep one, forget the rest. :) GO! My votes: 2. No choing unless your are getting paid to win. Further, players under 1200 rating using Tenergy are not allowed any sort of...

I think it's possible you're overthinking this too much. It's still sidespin with some back on it. Just that the sidespin is going the other way. You can spin it up on pendulum. So technically you know what to do. If you're finding the net too much, it's really as simple as that you need to...

I think, and this wasn't my idea as I read once Liu Guoliang say basically the same thing, that short pips simply takes much longer to learn inverted. I'm not surprised to hear you've played with it and didn't like it. I think that's normal. I think you'd have to give it bare minimum a legit 2...

If I have to glue an OX sheet of rubber and the base is thin? I suppose tear mender will get the job done. It's cheap & works. But that's few & far between on when I need to do that. Everything else, I just use rubber cement. Never have a removal glue problem if I take off a rubber, it's...

I've played a virtual TT game once. It was okay but not something I'd play more than probably 15 minutes. (and that's total. Not per session) Although my buddy picked up the new Oculus headset which doesn't have any cords. That is a pretty big step forward vs being tethered to a PC somewhere...

Looks legal to me. Interesting that the player on the far side had a BH kill shot just waiting for him them but opted to not play it where the debate unfolded. I couldn't catch what was decided. Who was awarded the point? Was it replayed? etc. But looks legal to me. I'd like to think in the...

I suspect this blade is high duplicated and I think there are a lot of fakes. There was this one guy at our club who would go home to Vietnam every few months. Always come back with this exact blade & butterfly rubbers on it and sell a few of this setup to folks at club for $100. I mean...

729 - 802 short pips is more a classic short pips. 729 - 802-40 is suppose to be the spinnier version. I suppose I'd select that. Personally speaking, i don't think there's much of a difference and if given a blind hit test I would struggle to be able to tell the difference. But considering...

Well props to you for realizing your style of game. That might sound simple but there are several hitters at our club who hit but don't really spin it all that well. Anyways, for these type of players, I think SPs could at least be something to explore. I'd just start out with 802 or 802-40...

I mean they can put lipstick on that pig and dress it up with dance music and cool looking young people all they want... It's still crap. :p

Literally every single word you said as I was reading I was going "Yep." "Yep. True." "agreed". etc. :) +1

I'm only about 3 weeks and it is going really well so far. I'm trying something I have failed at in the past. Reprogramming my brain to opt for (and feel confident in) the RPB block vs the TPB block. It's a strange thing but say you're warming up with someone. I can TPB block back all day. No...

I play penhold so I largely only like watching penholders play. I mean I'll watch say a final between two great players but by and large, it's penhold only. So: #1 - Xu Xin #2 tied with everybody else. He Zhi Wen, Wong Chun Ting, Zheng Peifeng, Xue Fei and a little bit of Koki Niwa just because...

Well rest assured you're not the 1st person to ever deal with trying to learn the backhand open up. It's just a skill you'll need to learn. No worries. 1st off, the best practice you can probably do is is have a mate at club practice this with you. You can read all the technique tips you want...

ha ha. You're crazy. :p