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That is disrespectful to third world countries.

The short version is that I'm just going to ignore her posts in the future.

The entire edifice of amateur sports in the US is problematic for many reasons. USATT is not very effective at building our sport but on a scale of overall evil is essentially beningn. Most of us can read a newspaper and see that this USOC guy is stepping down. There was a great column in the...

Good start but many others need to resign also. The entire thing neexs to be rebuilt. And the NCAA too.

What I nean is what soeone else wrote. Give Ma Long or FZD some H3 and booster like what any of us buy. Give them a few weeks with it. The result? They would still be the best two players in the world and they would beat Gauzy every time. Nevertheless they probably get rubbers designed to...

I don't know what it is and it is really annoying. It is a more prominent feature of the balls that I generally like the best -- once the powder goes off. I use a microfiber cloth to get as much off as I can before playing.

Carl, I wish I had written your post! OK, one last thing on all this. I am 60 years old. I hate to admit it, but there you have it. Time waits for no one. I played my first tournament in the US in 1971. By that time, if you were going to be any sort of significant factor in...

Trust me on this. Berndtgmann is one of tbe worst trolls we had at MyTT. Finally he was banned and now he is here. He will turn every thread into a complaint about sponge rubber in TT if you give him half a chance. That is why Next Level reacted the way he did. There is a long history.

Easy. TT is safe, fast, challenging, fun, and can be played well into advanced age and by peoplevwith disabilities including wheelchsir athletes. It is not too expensive and offers a lot of dynamics not seen in other racket sports because of tne importance of spin. The different racket...

In the ittf guide for match officials they show a diagram that suggests a range of what would be an acceptable deviation from vertical. They specfically note that 45 degrees is illegal. A lot depends on toss height if you judge by horizontal travel.. For this aspect Ma Long is not too bad...

I would bet a lot that Barna and his opponents were as obsessive about their equipment as profesxsonal athletes are now, even if it was simpler than what we use now and not so many parameters.

Anyone else? Even a lot of reasonably high level amateurs aren't going to want to take the time to retool their game that this kind of switch requires. It is very far from trivial. But of course there will always be exceptions. After about five minutes with a Chinese coach's Viscatia with H3...

I would be at a marked disadvantage if somebody put Ma Long's rubber on my blade. Everything would play differently and none of my racket angles would be right. Chinese rubber is quite different in how it feels and plays. I don't think it is intrinsically better. I don't think it is the...

I for one am really glad that my country can boast of an Olympic gold medalist like Chloe Kim. But I know there are dark forces here who resent it because she looks different from her teammate Shawn White. Not "American" enough. But where I live that is what an American looks like, and Kanack...

Actually NL's last post reminds me that at one point I used Butterfly Tackifire but I used so much speed glue in those days that birds flying overhead got dizzy. That made it a lot harder to make big distinctions between rubbers. Like he said it was a great equalizer as far as rubbers were...

I for one have no idea how to play with it no matter how boosted it is. The stuff Chinese coaches here use feels horrible to me. If I had started out with it then I would feel differently. I suspect a lot of people who didn't learn to play with some version of it have that reaction. Still...

BRS just raised a key point and it is an especially big issue in those US cities where there is a lot of TT (like mine). But it is not just the US. Some of these issues have emerged in e.g. Germany, and I know Suga personally. So again I will just say I know where he is coming from. Others...

I believe XX is the greatest doubles player of all time.

The Goon squad. Highly sensitive goons.

Yes. That too.