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I see. Clearly they are planning to shoot them into outer space.

It is not going to be the same for everyone. Some of it is genetics. Some of it is how well people took care of themselves while they were in their prime. Some of it is accumulation of injuries (which of course is related to the previous two, also related to style of play and simply being...

Sounds like an insect that burrows under your skin and makes you itch.

Injury maybe?

One last thing, one of the main things arylate or kevlar do in blades is absorb high frequency vibration. The carbon part tends to make blades stiffer (reducing some of the low frequency vibration) and increasing the size of the "sweet spot". Early composite blades in which there was only...

Amazingly there is a forum for composite material junkies. Here you can learn some more about vectran and kevlar from people who care about this as much as we care about ping pong. http://www.compositescentral.net/showthread.php?t=5683

The composite weave definitely has carbon in combination with either arylate (Vectran) or some other aramide fiber like kevlar. The resulting composite plays pretty much identically to Btfly ALC, even if it is not an absolutely identical material (it might be, I am not sure, one would need to...

Yes you cant be passive but you have to try to extend every point to the fifth ball on their serve, and your third ball on your serve has to be consistent and meaningful.

The problem is they are much stronger for a reason, so you kind of have to pick your poison. But if the difference in level is within a range where there is a low chance that I could win, say 1 in 20, then I will make them beat me as I said above and I prefer to not beat myself. Most of the...

Unlike a lot of companies Btfly doesn't release new rubbers very often and when they do it is a notable event. I will be really curious for people's reports on what makes these different.

Catch that person on a bad day? Ok. Practical advice. Resist the temptation to overplay shots. Don't give up easy points, try to make that person beat you, don't beat yourself. If you can hang in there maybe they will get nervous and choke. So try to keep it close. There will be some...

I don't know where it is made, but yes, they exist in that weight range. Ask the vendor when you order.

Indeed, why not? But I already have a closet full of nice FL Viscarias so someone else will have to try that.

After reading that I am now officially happy we don't have leagues here!

Good picture. The difference in seam size between the D40+s is definitely noticeable, but in both cases quite a bit thicker than the NP40+.

The original terrible DHS 40+ (cellulose acetate version) had a pretty thick seam but I stopped using them a long time ago and I don't know what the more recently manufactured ones look like. The seam on an NP40+ is hard to see without shining a pretty bright light through it. The D40+ that...

Yep, I wonder about this too.

It happened to me once or twice long long ago when I was a junior and I took a lot of satisfaction from it. In the US the complaint I hear most is that juniors are often improving so fast that their ratings are below their true level, so they wipe up in ratings events. I don't play many...

I don't think Fabian is trying to discredit anyone and I am glad that he called it to people's attention. I just don't think we know yet why he got some bad balls from ttnpp.

I will believe thin seam ones are real when someone receives them from a vendor like TT11. Update: In a thread at MyTT we learn that one guy bought D40+ made in July of 2017 at a shop in Beijing that had thick seams and play well. Another guy got D40+ from ttnpp, also stamped July 2017, but...