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PHers! Hope all are healthy and safe! I didn't update on my gear change. I don't recall the exact name(s) and when I have a chance I will post pix. Stopped using my Taksim carbon blade and went to a Stiga wood CPen. Don't recall name, it had a hollow handle. Some kind of technology making it...

OH WOW! CONGRATULATIONS SIR!!! #FatherhoodFTW Good luck with everything! ~osph

Hello All! I avoided this forum when lockdown took place in NYC mid-March 2020. I knew visiting here would make me miss TT even more. Going on almost a year now, my club has not reopened yet. Even if it did reopen, I won't be going to play. I live with my 85 yr old mom and don't want to risk...

Welcome to TTD KarlP4001! Thanks to Carl for the heads up on your thread. I haven't been on this forum in almost a year, didn't want to check in and make me miss TT even more. Nice collection of oldschool DHS PF4 blades! I'm 56 yrs old, played when I was a kid in late 1970s - mid 1980's. Around...

Hi KarlP4001! Welcome to TTD and also the PH thread! ~osph

"Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ." You are the great mind and I'm da fool lol

Sorry I've been a stranger to the thread/forum. Just been busy. Haven't really made a lot of progress and old club is not the best venue to video. So I stayed off here. Thank you for your kind words! My RPB self-learning may have been backwards but I'm happy I went the path I did. I...

Thank you suds for your kind words. In practice I feel confident of my rpb flat hit. My rpb block is decent... surprised a 2000+ SH player that has a powerful BH smash that I was able to block quite a few of his smashes consecutively. What I don't quite have down yet is the punch after a rocket...

Regarding TPB: Perhaps it is a mental block for me, but I cannot TPB well anymore once I embraced RPB as well as using a 1980s era Butterfly Taksim as my primary blade. It has a chunky rectangular handle compared to the current rounded. handles. Could also be the Donic Bluefire rubber I'm...

Placebo or not, keep using it! I never got used to JPen because I had no BH but more importantly could not get used to the handle/grip.

It is the Coach's room of a new club I joined. I wish I had a basement setup like this lol

As a kid, that was the only way I looped... 1 loop to set up smashing or punching. I am, albeit slowly, trying to brush and spin more than power/drive, however, not that night on those videos. Funny thing, video doesn't lie. I thought I do use legs but I see I do not. And yes, working on...

OH MY GUOYUEHUA!! *EMBARRASSED* lol at me! Knowing how you don't get to play much TT, I'll spot you 8 next time we hook up. Glad you didn't ask for 9. Psst, do NOT tell monster or JeffM that I will spot you 8 please!

Bruce Lee had a saying, "Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." The flat hit is in my muscle memory ... the coach that I mentioned is trying to get me to spin the ball more even on high balls. I explained to him like a hitter in baseball cannot...

Yeah, sorry Brother... been a Stranger... just been practicing and no video until now. Have also been busy with Real Life too. Glad to see you are holding down the fort on this thread! Thank you for your kind words! Back in the 1980's when I was a teen, I was a sidespin looper. Still have it...

Tried a Stiga Clipper WRB CR ... very interesting about the hollow handle making the blade head heavy. Anyone use this blade regularly?

You would too if you keep playing the way you do lol Looking forward to a Saturday night we can hook up

I lost 30 lbs in the past 3 years. I did not want to lose weight all that fast for fear of being a yo-yo. I intermittent fast for the past 2 yrs, 16/8 to 18/6.that is fast for 16 to 18 hrs and eat within 6 to 8 hrs period. Last month I fasted 26 hrs, and 24 hrs 3x, my first time fasting 24...

After 3 years or so of going to my club, I finally saw Tahl in action 2x in the past few months. It is said he is 2400 right handed and 2200 left handed. No joke! He switches hands midpoint with the greatest of ease!!

Thank you Der! I think one thing, I think I'm relaxed, or at least a lot more relaxed than ever before but you are not the first to comment that I'm not relaxed and loose, still very stiff. Thank you again Der!