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Summary. 1. Try before you buy. 2. Forum reviews are not a substitute for trying before you buy. Pictures of a hot woman are not the same as having sex with her, which in spite of some quaint yet persistent religious customs, I strongly recommend before marrying her (see 1 above). 3. Good...

Some people behave as if the right number of blades to own is N + 1, where N is the number you currently own. Others in slightly different circumstances behave as if the right number of blades to own is S - 1, where S is the number that causes your partner to leave you. The solution to this...

One thing to bear in mind is that ITTF has a long history of ignoring the recommendations of their own Athlete's Commission. But new people run the show now so we shall see.

Again speed glue abd booster aren't the same thing. Sharara did conflate them later.

A big way it was an equalizer was that an inexpensive sheet of rubber could have high performance when glued.

Adham Sharara claimed that banning boosters was to protect the health of the players! And no, I am not conflating this with the ban on speed glue, which was also to protect the health of the players. Boosters emerged as a response to the speed glue ban, and Sharara actually said that --...

Good. Overdue.

The thread was dying because it deserved to die because nobody likes the changes you were proposing, whether serious or hypothetical. Being intentionally controversial is another name for trolling, basically. Dont like our soort? There is TTex.

I agree with the spirit of this post. I want to add one thing -- AGAIN -- that children have no choice in where they are born, to whom, and where their parents chose to take them when they are too young to be on their own. This concept is very important and simple. People who don't understand...

When there is smoke in China it does not mean there is fire in Japan. My knowledge pales in comparison to Zeio's but I have traveled a lot in both countries and am married to a Chinese person (who actually loves Japan). Anti-Japanese sentiments are VERY strong in many places in China. To the...

Exactly.

I don't know for certain, but I think it will be hard to know until after June. Then you will see if the Stiga balls are still on the list. Probably the fact that there is an expiry means that Stiga has opted to not renew after June, which is the period for which they are "payed up". The fact...

My point exactly. By the way, there was a noticeable increase in the sport's popularity in the US after "ping pong diplomacy" in 1972. It lasted a few years but the momentum was not sustained. That was when we needed an American good enough to at least be a threat to be a world champion...

Ride a bike hard a few days per week. At least an hour.

By tbe way, I am not trying to pick on Jawien specifically. He is just posing the question. I get that. The problem is that the solutions attempted by ITTF all too often have had really bad unintended consequences. I want to simply state that the problem is in thinking that ANY technical...

First technical changes to our sport will accomplish nothing except to probably make things worse. For example, at the highest level of tbe sport players are already attacking all kinds of serves. The last time the serve was this small of a factor was the 1970s. Everything the ITTF has done...

Continuing that theme, I travel quite a bit to Germany. What impressed me there is not so much the level of amateur players (although some are really good, make no mistake); it is the shear number of players and also how easy it is to find places to play, the high quality of the playing...

I have traveled a lot and have played in Germany, Sweden and China, and the UK. The level of amateur table tennis is actually not all that different in any of those places since amateurs are not pros (I am excluding former pros from this). One club I visited in Stockholm had amateur players...

Actually I was quite surprised that anybody took me seriously. What I thought I was doing was adding additional scorn on the state of US table tennis. This thread has certainly wandered through a lot of topics. I used to practice with a guy who was a province level player until he was about...

I was a bit tongue in cheek in my last post FWIW.