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I don't have a durometer but a Rakza Z and a couple of DHS, 729 and ESN rubbers. The differences in hardness can be felt quite easily in most cases but I can't tell if the Rakza Z is closer to the B2 or closer to the H3 or exactly in the middle. So I would put my Z @ 38.5° or around 50° ESN...

Viscaria has Koto outer plies so I think the description from the Baidu link is correct: http://tiebapic.baidu.com/forum/pic/item/4d338744ebf81a4cd131aca0c02a6059252da65c.jpg For comparison an old Donic Persson Powerplay with Koto outer plies and a Tibhar Samsonov Alpha with Limba outer plies

I like these from Li-Ning (https://li-ning.de/tischtennis/tischtennis-bekleidung/)

From my experience with Target 90 and Battle 2 Provincial (38°) I can say that at least the only slightly tacky Target 90s I had were more or less unusable in high humidity conditions. Besides that the T90 is a really nice playing rubber. Somewhat closer to European rubbers than to typical...

If you want a rubber with a similar or higher throw than your Vega Pro I would also suggest the Rakza Z (with the usual 20% off when buying two rubbers it would fit your bill): Battle 2: Throw angle is a lot lower than Vega Pro (and lower than H3) even a softer (38°), boosted provincial B2 but...

I would bet that any player with good technique can produce better quality shots (faster/more spin/better placement) with an unboosted, commercial H3 and a Xiom Vega Intro than the players telling you to buy new/more expensive rubbers. Of course if your rubbers are worn out they should be...

They would have to provide factory packaged rubbers and blades. Packages are then opened in the presence of an umpire and so on. They would even have to closely watch how a rubber is glued onto a blade otherwise one could heavily stretch it or use more glue layers than another player...

Actually there are some loopholes in the official ITTF rules besides factory-boosting... Ultimately ITTF would need to take (destructively) samples of each rubber and blade and use e.g. gas chromatography and x-ray to test them. But even if they did have reference values and tolerances from each...

Too many D09C ;) Has the D09C a lower arc and lesser spin than the Z EH and the O7CY is in between or is it the O7CY with the lowest arc and spin?

In Germany depending on where you buy it it's around 48.90€ incl. VAT or 39,12€ if you buy two rubbers (the usual 20% off if one buys more than one rubber there). Tabletennis11 currently sells it for 33.68€ (normal price 44.90€ and that's even cheaper than a H3 Neo Provincial there). Blue Grip...

Comparison between 09c and Rakza Z. The player/trainer who's testing them has a very decent technique. Just from watching I can spot some differences between 09c and Z but due to the completely unintelligible auto-translated subtitles I don't know what he is saying about the rubbers...

It depends... There are so many variables that come into play when switching from this kind of racket to a custom racket that it's more or less impossible to say when to do such a switch and how different the new racket will feel. Some video footage would help... My advice would be...

I would definitely count that point and I think the rules also permit these kind of shots: "2.5.7 A player strikes the ball if he or she touches it in play with his or her racket, heldin the hand, or with his or her racket hand below the wrist." and "2.10.1.8 if an opponent strikes the ball...

Maybe we get back speed glue and the booster ban will be lifted :)

There is some nice footage from a training session Ma Long and Timo Boll in the background

The normal Rakza Z has a sponge hardness between 47° and 52° and the Extra Hard between 52° and 57° (for comparison: Rakza 7 is listed between 45° and 50°). If one of these conversion charts is correct than that translates to DHS 37° to 39° and 39° to 42°. Hopefully total weight of rubber with...

Complicated, yes, but advanced? I have to disagree ;) Oh, I forgot something else: Up to the state level women can play in mens teams (which is quite common in my area) but not vice versa and these mixed teams cannot play in the highest state leagues because it's verboten (no mixed teams...

Germany, women and men: National level: 1. Bundesliga (national league), 2. Bundesliga, 2x 3. Bundesliga (north and south) Below that but still on the national level: Four regional leagues (Regionalligen, fourth division?) Eight Oberligen (don't know how to translate that, fifth division?)...

If one doesn't mind to use baby oil (paraffin oil) than one can spread a little bit on the old glue and wait a couple of minutes. The glue will soften (depending on the amount of oil and time one get's a slimy, sticky mess of glue that can be removed without damaging the sponge).

Not a direct comparison but maybe useful: Two of my current setups are quite similar. One is a Persson Powerplay with H3 39° on FH and FastArc G-1 on BH (total weight 178 g, blade 88g) the other is a Sweden Extra with H3 39° on FH and FastArc C-1 on the BH side (177 g, blade 87g, shortened to...