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Great to hear. Yes, I swim a lot in the summer too. It is just superb for the whole body and as a reset tool. Also agree about Yoga. I study sports psych. and my wife is a physio. like you. What I have read and experienced with yoga leads me to believe in it very strongly. Especially for men...

Agreed. I'm into it just lately but have always been curious since when I was a kid Chinese rubbers were quite popular amongst good players at my hometown club. I remember one rubber called Yung that people liked. Very slow but even attackers swore by it. Intersting about the Loki Arthur...

That's fun to know. The topic I posted is about whether people stick with the cheap stuff or not. Not just the specific gear, so I thought that worth a thread.

A bit. Seems some similar topics but more nuanced. Thank you for your warm welcome.

Stuff like this is really good training for table tennis so serves a double purpose. I ride MTB which is great for strengthening the legs and gluts and back. Often I stop and throw large rocks that have fallen on to the trails off the cliff or into a ditch using a twisting motion. It is also...

Pretty sure he was making a joke about J-women being hard a$$es at home.

I'm wondering if anyone has gone down this rabbit hole and stayed there? Or didn't like them and went back to regular brands like Donic and Butterfly etc? I'm gonna try to go through a few different Ali express bargains. Anyone used Mercury or Rxton rubbers etc? So far the Friendship focus 3...

Sanwei has really impressed me with the echo blade, but it's Allround. Most peoploe seem to want faster and Sanwei have many other models including the parla. Fextra 7 is cheaper though. I'm gonna try the Fextra 5 because I like control over speed. Rubbers? Again Chinese. I'm really interested...

Academics is hard

It is written.

Yokoi playing now. IDK her. I don't watch a lot. Just getting back into watching lately. She dropped the first game but dominating with her BH in this second

Wow. Primorac still exists! I used that as a 12 year old 40 years ago! I'd say your best upgrade is to stick to one raquet. When losing, there's not many factors bigger than that inner voice. Having more than one racket to choose from makes that inner voice even more loud and confusing. Of...

I think all the points you make here are very salient. One thing that is key though is the system they play under has always had an element of hindrance and now it becoming difficult to mask due to the level of the game peaking. Before they could cover up the problems by just being way more...

Kokutaku have been making blades with carbon on one side for decades. I borrowed one. Was interesting. I don't think it's a useless product. Feel is not just about the rubber right? It's not for me but especially for combo bat players I can really see the utility in this.

Nothing but good experiences so far here in Japan. TT equipment has been cheap and good. I also mountain bike. I bought some carbon handle bars and then realised they must be fake and possibly dangerous. They gave me a full refund. Only bad thing is the flagrant misrepresentation of prices and...

I tell you what. You really inspired me to experiment today. I had the coach send me dead balls and back spin balls in multi ball and I was chopping them deeply and putting plenty of backspin on it. We were especially quite taken aback by how completely you can chop a backspin ball with the...

Just happens that his parents are Chinese. Hmmm.

I am absolutely loving this Sanwei Echo blade and the Friendship focus 3 snipe is a real outlier of a rubber. Bizarre control and spin absorbtion from a rubber that can also flat hit and block incredibly well despite the nice spin generation it affords on the serve. Mainly I think this is due to...

One thing I've been working on lately with the P3v is to really dip and wrist arc forward like a spoon action on the chop. It's really working out well in multi ball practice. Mixed in the game play but definitely getting there. Worth keeping in mind next practice I'd say. I feel I've turned a...

Absolutely solid view regarding the rubbers. Twiddling close to the table is tough though. Personally, regarding the backhand I would say 'love your beautiful weirdness'. I'd think it more beneficial to learn to attack with the LP really. Who likes being attacked by a good user of LP? And once...