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Thanks Brs for commenting. Yet again you put a nice perspective on the things we discuss here. Actually you made me realize that we are not the only sport which lacks a mass appeal. This makes you humble - yes. There is like 90% of other sports which have no mass media coverage and they do not...

If I may, I gathered 3 comments I find most significant for me from Tom, Andy and Sderyke2002. I think Sderyke2002 has a great point when he talks about the randomness of the today's table tennis. The urge to play offensive and a high ratio of unforced errors makes it difficult to watch. Even...

In the sense you presented above - quite broad I must say - it is a legitimate comment. But it would be even more legitimate for threads about [EDIT] : ) proper training process in sports ... I wanted to talk more about rules and the game itself. I think you might also have an interesting...

Bberndtjgmann ... I was just thinking where were you ... ; ) I appreciate your comment, but please don't refer to topics that do not strictly relate the one I proposed (the second paragraph to be precise : ) ... it will derail the thread. Thanks, J.

Women and men separate ... I don't know ... it would make even bigger nerds of us than we are now, wouldn't it ... ; ) The beauty of the game would be lost!!! - STRONG objection here. The letter thing was just rhetorical, have better things to do in life than writing letters to ittfz ... ; ) It...

"QWERTY Spin", but this is what we said few pages earlier - Belugma at this point (of his experience with those blades), might just toss a coin. Eventually someone said, to get JP because of finer quality and better feel. Almost everything we talk here is experience, although there are...

So 10 is the threshold? Not a 2 of each ... ? : )

I'm not sure about it 5hark. I don't know about thomas.pong who is with me on this issue, but I'm an amateur, and I can tell the difference ... "kill" me, but I can ... : )

THe thread is dying ... so let me be more controversial ; ) What would you say, if I was going to write an open letter to the ittfz ...... In that letter I would propose that the game should be more diverse ... and why shouldn't they have a one World Tour tourney a year with a different...

Could you rephrase it?

Yes, I agree very much - "Euro is lot harder and less bendy". In my tt life I had 2 Primo JP and 2 Primo Euro (don't ask me why : ) plus I tried few other people's blades. It was always the same. Euro also tends to be head heavy, I think. I read once somewhere, that there are two different...

I hope I didn't sound like I wanted to take credit for something actually Carl and others did. I just had a comment here and there. But actually this sticky thread idea is very good. Carl would be the person to ask - I guess?

Belugma I'm happy for you, it took us only 120 posts, about 4 thousand people reading the thread, some arguing and quite a time to figure out a common ground for everybody. Hey next time you'll want to change your setup, I hope I'll be on the vacation ... ; )))) @I hope you see my humor :) I...

Well if you check the surfaces of those blades, the color differs for sure ... maybe someone have better information, how they actually differ in terms of a material used and the build process? As for the sponge hardness I rather prefer talk about my experience and "impressions". There are...

I have both Jap and Euro. Jap has better feel for sure, but generally feels softer. I tend to think this soft feel is not only due to its flexiness, but also to the softer limba used as an outer layer. Because of this for me when I use Primo Jap I put rubbers with harder sponges. Currently I...

I agree Tom, that tt might have something inherent, that it "will never have the mass appeal of other easier-to-follow sports". I just want to examine the boundaries (following Der's advise ;) ). Also, yes - traditional tv is becoming less and less important, so we have to take it into account...

Yeah, I completely agree about the let, but ... in this case "the play" was not interrupted by the empire ... was it?

Maybe it is more like a frontier ... ; ) @Regrading to the ball color Der wrote about, I think they tried it in China SL. Can't cite the exact reasons but as far as I know they stopped it.

"There are no quick fixes" as Andy mentioned and I think this would be even better title for the thread ... Great point about the general public perception of table tennis Songdavid. If a regular guy was picked up from the street, I bet he would have a hard time differentiating between "World...

In search of the perfect game ... or how to "prolong rallies" in table tennis, in order to make the game more appealing for a general pubic and for the spectators, while at the same time still preserving its character. [RATIONALE] I dare to say out of the four main racket sports (Tennis...