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@UpSideDownCarl I did not think about it that way. That makes good sense. I will add it to my mental list of pros for soft sponge non-tacky. How are non-tacky rubbers when blocking and pushing compared to tacky rubbers?

@NextLevel Based on what I've heard from you: it depends, and we will see. I myself enjoy the aspect of physically bettering myself to perform better, and right now I'm not terribly concerned in ultimate equipment performance. This is however a beginner's view, I might get a different view as...

Assuming I want to embrace the 3rd ball attack and short game and I would get coached for it. Then it would make sense to stick to tacky rubbers? On the contrary if I just want to play an allround looping game, perhaps not as extensively coached, it'd be best to use non-tacky?

What do you mean with "Depending on how you want to play"? In terms of style, or playing level? Why do you think Chinese tacky rubbers are bad? Are they too hard to use or require a style which I can't quite develop myself to play, are they not good at all for allround play at the U2000...

I don't feel like making an entirely new thread just for this personal question: My rubbers are starting to wear. They're still good to spin the ball and there's no problem, but they will just wear more and eventually I need a replacement. I'm willing to use a little bit more money per sheet...

@Baal I saw your edit just now. Thanks for the clarification. Your views are welcome, and I'm not saying you're wrong either. However I won't accept what meaning you're trying to give to what I am saying. That is your personal issue. I'd really love to hear how your thoughts on Chinese...

@NextLevel Thank you, I understand where you're coming from. People generally don't like it when you make any kind of statements about their ethnicity or nationality. I try not to speak about ethnicity or nationality face to face with people from a different culture, I'm more so concerned on...

What is offensive about the terms and their implications? People and cultures are different, and they place more or less emphasis on some things. The way people behave towards each other for example might have motivations more based in how the other person feels, or more how the person doing...

NL, that's the reasoning that I've used in the past. "His shots have so little pace and spin that it's hard to attack them." It's true: it is. However who'se fault is it, mine or theirs, that their much weaker shots are too much for me to handle?

@Baal Great job imagining context to what I said. Let's read that again: "It's funny how individualistic cultures seem to much more favor team sports, while more non-individualistic cultures like China and Japan, while they still try to push for team sports, have really eaten up table tennis...

@Boogar Somehow I don't think a very weak player makes it to the finals of anything with supposedly stronger players there. Maybe he isn't as weak as you think?

I've been running an LG monitor for years. I guess in terms of monitors, it's Korea number one.

Lately I've been working on relaxing my upper body more in my swings, and swinging my arm later into the swing, and my body earlier. I've basically been forcing it. Just trying to be more relax and consciously doing hours of shadows until I could somewhat swing more properly, then trying to...

@Suga D Anything that's hard to understand and do in terms of sports and games can be taken out of it's niche with enough simplification, instruction or just simply something that grabs people's attention and makes them interested to learn. I would very much so love to see table tennis become a...

Yes, however there is more spin to a 2000-some player's game than there might appear to be. A 1800+ player isn't exactly bad, and he kept on netting your pushes. There has to be quite something on them for it to keep happening.

@NextLevel I'm more so saying that the spin level is higher than expected. The kind of ball you're gonna produce with the kind of contact you describe is different from the one I would produce. The relative spin isn't hard to read. There are tell tale signs. The absolute amount is what's hard...

I'm not too sure if table tennis can be made much more popular without changing it's essence. It is after all a very difficult, very technical niche sport.

What the hell is even going on here? Suga D, thank you for the defense, but NL is right. Read his last post and his reasoning is spelled out there clearly.

Did some short no-spin/very light backspin and short push practice with a bare beginner today. He has hit a little and he is not very skilled, but he has smooth movements. We hit a bit and I taught him some basic things like how to do the warmup rally initiation stroke and then started doing the...

@Shuki Hahah, I guess. I was never intending to show these, and I wasn't sure if the camera even had a view on me. I just wanted to see what was going on. It was good enough of a view, so I posted it. @NextLevel I'll keep the simplicity in mind. It makes sense that with only a few moving...