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And here’s me reminiscing about my first serious setup, a handed-down Stiga Kjell Johansson Offensive Wood with Mark V 2.0 on both sides (both red, of course). My coach severely frowned upon me for taking that crazy fast setup to the training. Not that I could afford anything else… so I stuck...

Not at all, not at all. That's just me being unassuming. Apologies for the ruffled feathers.

On my teensy phone screen I read that as "out of all 82 versions" and had a little chuckle. Untrue, but typical stil.

By no means a respected member, I still might have €.02 of ideas to share. Composite mass-produced: DHS N301. Butterfly Harimoto or Innerforce ALC. Nittaku Tornado King Power. Andro Treiber CI. Joola Rosskopf Emotion (the only "outer" composite in this shortlist, mitigated by its soft Hinoki...

To me the Zebarate looks like a close kin to the Innerforce/Apolonia ZLC. I'm guessing it's limba/limba/ZLC/ayous/zlc/limba/limba, like these two, and reportedly rather thin. I'm unsure about the core, though. So that's where I'd look to get a general sense of its playing properties. (The...

Important message to EJs: equipment is soooo important that some pros don’t even know and don’t care what they’re playing with. [emoji3166]

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The usual.

The rivers still have to move many mountains to the sea for that to happen.

I'm just the opposite. I see a meaningless pic, with no sensible text, and ignore. :-)

"Uwaaa". That reminds me of the first time I heard of so-called onomatopeia, with the latin "ululare" as an example.

Not being a visual guy (and considering any picture obviously capable of obfuscating many clearly written words), I think I perfectly understand that serve. Early '80s, BH serves were the bread&butter of everyday TT where I played, both Bengtsson-style short as well as the long top-side OP...

Well, that may or may not be an exploitable vulnerability.

Alas, overeagerness undid it.

Hayata is fast, furious and fluid against CXT. (Or am I jinxing it now?)

If you really love your sweety, then don't abandon her. Or regret it later.

No, that’s just different. The Korbel and Primorac have limba outers. Softish and pretty much geared towards a spin oriented game. The Sweden Extra has an outer of anegre, “the ultimate control wood”, which is slightly harder and a bit more zesty (to my palate anyway) and lets you spin it, but...

Wanton cruelty. Come on people, we're better than this.

As to these technical changes, where do we see most of these? I think I see the BH getting used differently, and there's a bit less consistency there as well. But that might well be just a matter of different tactics rather than a technical change.

What use is a golden bat? I don't think it's a very suitable material at all. Too heavy, bad contact properties, and not even allowed per Laws of Table Tennis, which dictate wood makes up for at least 85% of the blade.