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Court shoes are all generally the same (aside from basketball and volleyball), spec'd for lateral movement and not much else. Main issue with the running shoes is the stack height and soft foam. If you're rigorous the incidence of sprained ankles would be pretty high. Otherwise, some barefoot...

My take is this whole topic is a false dichotomy that’s bolstered by confirmation bias, the human tendency for binary categorization, and optical illusions, possibly because a lot of old CNT players used penhold and biomechanically your arm does extend a bit straighter. But look at how Wang...

Those are East Bay prices 💸 The other side is 100-150. Although surprisingly 888 charges less.

Whichever is cheaper I think both are fine. FineZip is, in my circle at least, the most consistently praised glue, but it is rather expensive. Best glue I ever used was Copydex, which would be convenient for you as you are in the UK. One time I used Paddle Palace EZ Pro and that was a steaming...

Sanwei's QA is very poor for the price but they play rather decently. I keep a 75PAR w/ TN3s as a loaner, but I had to sand about 5g because neither side was flat. Yinhe is the better brand overall, but I always like how Sanwei handles feel.

The only time I used a wood blade was when I first started. The closest thing I've come to it since is a CNF blade. That was the most frustrating period - not because of the blade, but because it was hard for me to understanding what I was doing right or wrong. That lasted less than a month...

Certainly, but also not inaccurate. Even in China, where table tennis is biggest, it still pales in comparison to something like basketball, where the are absolute cheeks. I can think of other sports that will always be niche even if it’s exploded in popularity. Rock climbing for example. A...

I mean, Dubai is pretty nice if you you're swimming in gold.

I think a bigger splash will come awards season. Not much bigger, bigger nonetheless. 32M heading into week 3 is amazing for an A24 movie - it might even break even. It's unlikely to have an outsized effect on table tennis. Niche sports are niche sports for a reason - not because of exposure or...

Sometimes they're called different things in different places. Basically a physio will guide you through exercises to return you to a level of activity. A regular therapist is focused on getting you back to normal daily life activities, while a sport specific one is more concerned with getting...

Hey never say never in this age of crazy.

Yeah but pros do all kinds of weird shit cuz they think it gives them an edge. It's a matter of materials science, the topsheet's expansion is instantaneous, and the foam + oil combo is not strong enough to stretch the rubber by itself, hence the curling. Maybe the glad wrap prevents some evap...

As long as you remove the protector before you roll it on there's no difference. Interesting thought about wrapping it. Saying it gets harder implies polymerization, but at room temperature that is unlikely to happen in the time between boosting and gluing.

When we give out recovery times, understand it's based on large collections of data. If I tell you it takes 9 months to recover from an ACL graft, that takes into account a large population with very low selection criteria. I can tell you that if you're athletic, you tend to recover quicker - a...

I mean that you can obscure your serve was an option to everyone. He made use of it, he was within the rules, he excelled at it, and was shrewd enough to bounce and wreck havoc on the national team as a white collar criminal (so the memes go). But MY point is, everyone played with in the same...

Yeah or snatching defeat from the jaws of victory up 3-0, though there’s no shame in losing to Ma Long. That man is like the textbook definition of choking lmao. No argument mate, just exchange of ideas 🙇 you made me think on my position as well.

Former in this case, but you also have packaging considerations in designing an engine block (or anything that occupies space).

If you watch a table tennis game from 1996, can you tell they're playing table tennis? Do they move the same, with largely similar equipment? In 2025, is spin still king? Minutiae of competitions change all the time. When you decide it's no longer the same competition is more of a Ship of...

I don't know who I consider the TT GOAT, I just don't watch enough TT. Ma Long has a cool name. But I think he would have eventually overcome WH, with or without the plastic change. It was always a mental block - ML likes to play from the lead. He'd get in his own head if he fell behind. When he...

In the mix means if you change a few bits around on the breakdown of what you value, they can conceivably rank higher than another contender. At the conclusion of Ma Long's career, there's nothing you can change around where you can put Wang Hao ahead of Ma Long. It's a common position because...