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I don't do other sports apart from TT nowadays (maybe some snowboarding in winter). Of all things, I personally feel I both need the most and at the same time also neglect the most, is the stretching after the training.

Rule nr. 1: Stand wider. Rule nr. 2: If you think, you stand wide enough, go back to rule nr. 1. Rule nr. 3: Ignore the nay-sayers. They will come to you, mascquerading under logic, and tell you that following those rules, you will either stand infinitely wide, which is not possible, or achieve...

I don't know. It's a legend rubber, can afford being not cheap, and it would fulfill the task here well too. I think no reason to start a polemics, diff. people have diff. prefs ;-) I think too that YM2 is good enough, while being much cheaper. It's not fast, it's actually very tacky, forces...

Apart from training, I think it is good to try different things, just for the sake of trying to recognize the differences. So, if you go for Mark V, I'd take 2.0 on BH and max on FH. Also, if 2.0 is available, I prefer it on the BH. Another option is to take Yinhe Mercury 2 Red Soft for BH and...

Apology accepted.

The sponge. I never measure anything else.

This is the one I took. The O Type (there are 3). It says 54 on my H3 Prov BS H41, don't have H39 and H40. For H3 Prov H37 and for H8-80 H37 I measure 47, pretty much as expected. Edit: Obviously the top-sheet will have some role too, so will booster and glue. No need to have some extra...

Michael, you of all people should get the Shore O durometer like igor suggested. You like to test rubbers, you've tested more rubbers than most of us... Btw. the declared hardness of the Victas TDE (57,5) seems to match the reality much better than in the case of Bluegrips. I measured 57 on a...

And even if, show me a stroke with H40 which I can't do with H39... Right??? OK, jokes aside, 1 degree diff. in that scale is more like 2 degrees diff. in the scale used for ESN rubbers. So, I'd be very surprised if someone is NOT able to feel that difference. I'm not saying all that matters...

Since you play with BlueGrip C1, I'd vote for H40, possibly even H41. The BlueGrip C1 is (on paper) said to be hardness 60, but if I measure with Shore O durometer, it says 55. (BlueGrip C2 on paper 55, durometer says 50.). The H3 BS H41 is around 54 on that durometer, approx. the same. So, if...

Beautiful. So many "things" we can substitute to your word "factories" ;-) Edit: Of course, most important is your ending!!!

It's transcending TT, we are OFF ... !!!???

The NH3PTB is a high quality rubber, it is very hard, cca H42,5, and demanding. I'm glad I tried, but going for softer next time... 2- The throw angle is like H3, for me about middle 4- Very durable 5- Easy to use, but no easy to get the maximum of which it is capable of Now in India, not much...

Hi Michael, I think I bought Rakza X and Z close to 2 years ago, and at that time I was kind of disappointed in both. The RZ is too soft for the FH, it is really only marginally harder than RX, if at all. Definitely not what the paper says. If I knew up front I'd go for RZ EH. Hmm, maybe it was...

Fantastic! I thought it will be forgotten... The reason for nr. 1 is because it is exactly what I'd use. Because I don't feel like posting videos to public, I started 12 private conversations, and each can only contain 5 people. It was little bit of a hassle. It was very positive anyway. The...

Rhetorical question: What chemical element you'd associate FZD with?

I think "getting faster" can be formulated as "getting used to speed"... To be more often in such situations. Probably multi-ball is the best, and the robot 2nd best. All the exercises are known to you... When I saw NDH's and blahness'es comments I understand what they speak about, but I don't...

I'm curious how the change will feel... Also, what is the target size, 159x150?

We need to see it as a "work invested into the rubber"... You wouldn't complain a player invested a lot of work into his training, would you? Now this is the same... We invest the same into a training as we invest into our equipment... Things equalize, both are important, EQUALLY...

As he back-swings, the elbow-angle stays constant for a long time. The lower-arm appears to go down, but that is only because the upper-arm goes back so far. That is the 1st time I realized that. Thanks.