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I never had the same experience as OP. I used the stuff for about 10 years before switching a little more than a year go. I could always get about three months or more from a sheet. As T05 ages and the sponge eventually breaks down it plays softer, not harder. I am wondering what glue was used?

A lot of work. I am not going to write the amount needed to answer the OP's question and I have never had experience with 1.7 with any modern rubber. In my experience, though, kind of paradoxically, I keep the ball on the table better with thicker rubber (2.1 mm) on nearly every shot (compared...

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324 The original science.

My thoughts exactly. In my mind there are three minds of trolls . 1. Lonely people killing time. 2. Monomaniacal people with zero social skills to the point of a personality disorder. 3. And sadists with dark tetrad traits. Some people could be a bit of more than one. Type 3 has to...

It is interesting to revisit.

Unlike NL, Berndt did not make me hate hsrdbat. It was guys like him circa 1972 who made me hate it. Loathe it. Which is why the appearance of Berndt and his One Infinitely Repeating Theme really amazed me. I seriously thought I had heard the last of that shyte about the time I started...

That was the most interesting MyTT thread in years. Berndt did make one or two civil contributions, identifying a Japanese player in a fascinating training video. But then later he tried to derail the thread and had to be warned. Berndt trolls most of the time. It is how he gets enjoyment...

One way to get a bit more automatic on a shot is to introduce more movement into it -- so you have to move a bit to get to the ball. But not too much. You focus on the element you are trying to improve, for example relaxing your wrist. But not from always the same place. For some reason...

Trains By Steps Ahead https://youtu.be/2bmn7FSCJlo

Trains By Steps Ahead

It is hard. You focus on relaxing your wrist and everything else goes off. It is very anti-Zen. But you still need to relax your wrist. There aren't many shortcuts to getting better. The one thing that can make things go slightly faster is to video yourself playing. Then you can see all...

I am paraphrasing Bill Evans. Lightzy will know who I mean. And this Lao Tzu you are speaking of? What equipment does he use?

Only way to know for sure which is right for you is to try them. There are many Chinese players who use both of them. Do you know anyone who has those blades?

Repetition is not sufficient. But it is necessary. First you have to learn everything. Then you have to forget it.

Repitition. There is no secret Ingrediant except that.

Fixed (losing on purpose) is one thing. Not playing your best because there is not a lot at stake is a different thing. FZD is human. He may have not battled at his best. Doesn't mean he lost on purpose. Nothing anyone has posted here convinces me he lost on purpose. I do read a lot from...

People who think they know the inner workings of the CNT usually don't have any special knowledge.

What is this supposed to mean? The kid was born in Japan. It is true that his parents were born in China and emigrated to Japan. Are you suggesting that Chinese players have some sort of intrinsic genetic advantage for table tennis that Japanese people (and anyone else) would not have...

Very good post. A couple of comments on what WB just wrote. Clearly Chinese players do occasionally lose to non-Chinese players. Not all that often it should be said. But they are not entirely invincible. US college basketball is a cesspool, now being investigated by the FBI. But not for...