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I actuallly don’t believe panic to be a beneficial response.

A few slabs of Rhaegar on it and you're good to go!

Only if you overthink. Which for some or other reason TT players are wont to. Settling on anything, accepting its strengths and weaknesses and build steadily on that is probably the best path to improvement. Yet we are so eager to shoot ourselves in the feet trying to cut corners…

Harder, certainly. The way it produces spin is also different. In that direction, I like Gold Arc 8 (the 50° version) a lot.

To me, which is a subjective thing, it lacked ‘clarity of feeling’ and I could not come to terms with its rebound. I had expected a different feeling, a different power curve. Disappointment is born from high expectations, and I had hoped for a Viscaria with a bit deeper bite on the ball. It...

I glue a lot for other people and am extra careful when prying off rubber from Stiga blades. I have seen the top veneer splinter. I’ve also seen chunks of the entire top ply coming loose, but I have my suspicions about these blades’ history of (ab)use. (I have also noted horizontal cracks at...

Well, you’re probably right. Yet the Tomokazu Harimoto’s handle, supposedly regular, seemed awfully close to these kid-size handles to me…

I saw them at a BTY shop, but you'll also find the various handle sizes in the BTY online shops. The smaller FLs are "Flared XXS", the larger (or perhaps, more regularly sized; that depends on perspective) are just Flared - "Holrond", in Dutch. (Example...

Butterfly had blades with smaller and larger handle sizes before. TB All, Primorac, Korbel have the Flared handle in two sizes.

Adviced by whom? For now, the sciency part of my brain tells me the WHO analysis and advice are quite plausible.

Because I don’t think price is relevant for “best”, and I also don’t think “widely used” or “popular” has anything to do with it. That said, “best” is positively screaming for derailment, as has been noted.

Nostalgic is quite a beast, imho. An updated Clipper, quite demanding/unforgiving - but powerful. It may not be what @OP seeks. "Slow down to focus on technique" does suggest a Korbel to me, for limba lovers at least. A Xiom Offensive S would do equally well, probably, in that case; I prefer...

Mmm. One hemisphere's summer is another one's winter.

I don't care about great numbers ("market share"), nor does price point play a part — in these considerations. But thanks for the relativisation (and kudos for mosying towards "bifurcation" along the way). :-)

Hmmm. Ni Xialian does come to mind.

Thnx NL. Informative. Note that I didn’t mention pricing at all; that would, in my view, would be irrelevant when discussing qualitative aspects. The flaw in considering ‘brands’ as having qualities at all, to me, is indeed a deep one. When considering brand as a label for a set of...

Well, umm, thanks, I suppose? :rolleyes: But now you're here... do you really think I'm just going the way of full rhetorics, playing the devil's advocate, putting up straw men? FWIW, I actually don't think I am. I think the main premise here is really deeply flawed.

That is the question. What I pointed out, in "level relative" remarks, that this answers a different question, i.e. "what's the best TT equipment for absolute top players?". And I would argue (1) that the question is unfounded. You don't hit balls with a brand, you do it with a blade with...

I don't buy much into this line of argument. When Formula 1 drivers drive professionally (i.e.: when driving competitively in a Formula 1 race), they get to utilise equipment from a narrow, specialised palette, which is additionally subject to sponsor constraints. Similarly, when the absolute...

Def carbon blades exist. Never played one though. I did play the ACC, and it’s really not fast.