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Rubber longevity (or lack thereof) is a strange thing. I have a blade from when I was a junior player. From around 1980. It has (eggplant coloured) Friendship 729, and Butterfly Sriver-L on it. The Friendship is still bouncy and sticky (after cleaning); the Sriver-L is a bit worn at the...

I bounce a few balls of it, didn't happen to have cybershaped slabs around for a quick try. I think he used polycarbonate, but I'm not entirely sure. That few bounces didn't feel all that remarkable.

Just this week, a young player tossed me a Cybershape blade he had 3D-printed.

I sometimes repair blades. I'll fix (using wood glue, pressure, and patience) the salvageable bits, fill in the rest with wood filler and gently sand and polish to get it so smooth you can't feel it when running a finger over it. Edge tape would not have saved you here, it's too much of a...

A great blade that deserves to enjoy more hours at the table in the hands of developing talent.

Placement patterns. Move the opponent about, seek their hip/elbow (crossoverpoint) then go wide, back. Play fast and deep, alternate with shorter, slower, dead or, contrarily, with heavy spin. Getting the opponent slightly uncomfortable, slightly out of position, is key. You can see this...

Law abiding citizens get kidnapped and disappear without legal recourse. Habeas corpus is dead. And yes, Tony, China's treatment of the Uygurs, Tibetans etc. etc. (and general oppression) is horrible too. Totalitarian, repressive shitholes should be shunned, the nazi ones doubly so.

None. No country that has thug squads mass-kidnapping and disappearing people by the thousands on a daily basis meets even the lowest standards.

Maybe organising the event in a circus town in the middle of a desert isn't a very good idea. Not to mention the "nazi olympics" aspect of it.

Lucky him. He's colourful enough to get kidnapped and disappeared into CECOT, no doubt. No one with a working braincell should voluntarily risk exposition to a fascist regime by travelling to fascist shithole countries.

Which then becomes $73.50 after import taxes ("tariffs"), of course.

The robot seems to have fallen prey to the relentless pressures of enshittification. I have a robot that, to the best of my knowledge, has been working reasonably well — until the app (which got updated) suddenly lost the facility to control the it. There's been no response to my inquiries so...

If bounciness is the problem, the Tenergy FXes won't solve it. Quite the contrary. Something like Vega Pro might be worth a shot, though.

Both H3 and G1 aren't lightweights. But… it's not the weight. It's the balance that makes it feel heavy. Head heavy means more momentum, which can make your bat feel less agile. If you could add weight to the handle, it would feel lighter - the "Beast Mod". Probably not an option. You can...

It's not you. I guess the WCQ affiliations have passed on the the WCQ slayer.

It's not about having *a* measure, it's about having *the right* measure. But let's leave it there.

Stalling isn't about absolute time measures. Stalling is disrupting your opponents rhythm by breaking stride while the receiver's ready. That's what SYS does, and more do. I don't think you can or should conflate "having a measure" with "objective".

Clueless? I'd say not punishing SYS's stalling *immediately after being reprimanded for stalling* was. That was so in your face; respectless, and totally lacking sportsmanship. (Unexpectedly, of course; SYS would be a great player if she had just an ounce of that.)

I still remember the ZJK fan's cries. And the Beatles', for that matter.

Certainly. Like I said, variety. Of life. The spice.