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Not even close :-) See, I'm getting there... Thanks :-)

Such claims should indeed be met with skepticism. Especially if the change is "within range" (small, not drastic, in the EJ spirit as written before). Not a bigger change, like change from inverted to small pips, which has bigger impact and as you said, also it's own trade-offs, and can but does...

:-) I think it is of enormous importance if someone tries almost all the rubbers on the world. That someone then develops the "bigger picture", and can relate the rubbers to each other from experience. It is useful for the others who inevitably see only a small part of the elephant. When that...

I agree with all the points individually as stated, and it's good to read because it confirms for me what I think too. Except the point 3. You are not counted as forum "expert". But still somehow the feeling remains that you have interpreted what Baal said not in the way he meant it.

Understand. Yes. From my own experience new players are overwhelmed by the myriads of choices. Gradually the range narrows down. Then I was thinking that when someone already changed his rubbers couple of times (within his range, as you wrote before, not drastic change), and didn't see...

Yes, people try different blades and rubbers. But how do you know that they are doing it in the name of that "tweak", that they are looking for miracle? I originally understood your message as saying that we should not have false expectations. We should not expect that equipment change makes...

I don't know who is GOAT, but if you'd ask me who is MBFHOAT, then I'd say Ma Long.

I agree. The purpose of the motor system is primarily to adjust to the coming ball, not to the equipment. The more we have to allocate it for adjusting to the wrong equipment, the less we have for the ball.

I was glad that you clarified it. Anger is good, but Konrad is not paid for his opinions, imo :-)

I like the message of this thread and the form and way it was formulated. The question is, how many people actually think that equipment change can make them better? I don't have a slightest clue, but optimistically I'd hope that not that many. Why, because we are TT players :-). In recent...

Not all hard rubbers are fast. I'd rather argue against too fast rubbers, those might make sense for advanced players. But I don't understand the negativity against hard rubbers. People might even be afraid to buy those. They are neither better nor worse than soft rubbers, imo.

Small movement, change in position or rotation of a part of the body, can influence the position or movement tendency of another part of the body, and all together result in different, and differently felt, movement chain. I'd like to mention couple of such small details. It is basic mechanics...

Playing it backwards as you do at 1:01 is a nice touch I haven't seen elsewhere. The enormity of the swing is more apparent. The crawl-like left hand, imho, is incidental. Water gives resistance, air doesn't. Focusing on trying to replicate that, again imho, is contra-productive. At that point...

Started at 12, trained for 1 and half year. Then 32 years gap. My father plays whole life. Recently moved close to parents. Took son to father's club to play with him a bit. Started myself. That was 2 years ago. Son continues Judo, it is the best for them, imo. I thought it's late, and put it...

Thanks for the tip. The Firestarter looks very good with super-slow BH side.

A friend in club is using LP OX on the BH. He's tried many rubbers, I even bought some for him on Ali (it's very cheap), because he's doing weird experiments with it. He has settled on Tibhar Grass D.TecS and Giant Dragon Talon (Special if I'm not mistaken) recently. He is very particular about...

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Sincere apologies, I meant Carl of course. :) S... happens. :) Thank you very much for the explanation. I'll speak mostly about myself bellow. I agree. XVT ZL Koto felt both too hard and too fast to me. I've avoided ZL carbon since, even though it may not be the main cause here. Would love to...

Paul and others, how would you order the relative importance of having slower-vs.-faster blade to having blade with less-vs.-more dwell (sometimes called kick-vs.-hold)?

I was speaking about the backward rotation (to prepare for FH topspin). ((I've edited the original post where I used names of two players for the purpose of comparison. Later I felt it is inappropriate. Sorry.)) I agree, especially with your wording "smoothly", that is really important. In...