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You’re in a good place with two top-notch, but wildly different rubbers. Play more. Get a good training partner, or more, and if you can find and afford one a good coach. As rubbers go, humans are flexible learners, in principle, and will learn to cope with anything. Still, you may develop...

No, Der, that’s the Bonzo Bitburg 2000.

If you can’t find a Primorac: the Korbel is quite close. So is the Xiom Offensive S.

First tournament! Veterans only. Played solidly, constant for six matches. One narrow loss, against a Russisn giant with the softest hands I’ve ever seen and disheartening retrieval to boot. I put good pace, spin on the ball; high pressure. What I got back was so slow and dead that it was...

Props for both! It might not be the hippest of remarks, but I’d say Boll’s BH (outstanding pressure and stability) and Waldner’s (solid, unpredictable) deserve a mention as well.

Multiple layers will definitely help against splitting.

I don't think I'd mind that serve all that much. Yes, it's fast, but it's also quite predictable with sufficient good options to handle it advantageously; I actually train with people doing that kind of thing, and they tend to stop using it real quickly.

“Cavitation”. How does that concept apply to a blade?

Just my .02€. An odd 40 yrs or so ago I was thoroughly trained for distinctive bh/fh stances. Bh parallel, fh at roughly a 30° angle (with variations as needed by placement). That came with a price: a stronger commitment, and less fluidity in fh-bh/bh-fh transfer. I’ve seen the distinction...

Only a few bright colours were added, it’s not as if the full pantone spectrum is about to hit the streets.

That would be the Schildkröt 900 (aka "The Legendary Schildkröt"), but that's best not mentioned, really. Speak not its name, lest ye summon the eldritch horrors from their house of dreams. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Other contenders would be the BTY Boll TriCarbon, the...

I concur with your analysis, mostly. Cole adapted to your game. You didn't accomodate equally - leading to a slew of poor BH's, and top-to-top rallies in which you didn't dominate anymore. About taking initiative, even in the first match I think I saw quite a few rallies in which both you and...

I'm not so sure about "most effective", but it's certainly a treat to see XX in action. Technique derives from physique, deep down. You need Wang Liqin's build to spin like he does; and I think XX's build enables his style. Even so, there are a lot of choices in choosing to play away from the...

V is for Volatile. Don't worry, play happy.

That all sounds very much like Rasanter R53 vs R48 to me - where I’d pick R53 any day of the week.

Actually, I think a single crushing loss of the magnitude ZYL suffered against Mima Ito would already weigh very very heavily against her - much like the humiliation Ding Ning underwent pretty much sealed her fate. And ZYL didn’t happen onto it once, but multiple times. It may be harsh, cruel...

It’s not you. The forum has its quirks.

Actually, if it’s rebranded Tibhar gear (as speculated above) then I’d say it’s good stuff, reasonably priced, with the styling, rebranding and relative exclusivity adding quite a bit of pizazz.

As reliable as for other stuff, I’m afraid. It’s a crapshoot, basically.

Mima Ito, the penhold version? [emoji12]