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Putting stock into anyone's EJing is granting them expertise they probably don't have. IT's one thing to know a player and how they play and see whether you want to use what they use. It's another thing to claim that you know what someone will play best with when all factors are considered...

He used Hurricane for a long time too - bad for his level?

Happy to see you back to continue the conversation with your "haters"!

Oh no, Musclepong switched to D09c.... what is going on lol... @victormanriquey , save him fast....

The one thing I will say is that Odo has become a huge practitioner of hidden serves and that I wonder whether she would survive a TTR review of that match with WMY. That said, she played well and the rest is really up to WTT.

It's still one match though. We need to see some trends . The whole event will say a lot.

Its quite possible she was playing hurt. With WMY, you never know. She just plays through it. That said, it was clear Odo was hitting winners. We will just see whether she can back it up.

Yes. He has been for a while now you can see it on Butterfly Global. He also switched to Zyre on backhand as part of the change.

Great win for Odo - but when you win like that, you have to back it up! The Avatar state cannot disappear just like that... Her next challenge shoiuld be Chen Yi in the quarters...

Something is wrong with gravity... WMY is struggling...

Here we go....

Lin Shidong is resting it seems. But as @Bollwerk pointed out, you missed 2 CNT men.

Perspective. He gets to show whether he has learned anything since his last lesson.

Coaches and mentors go a long way. So does "talent" and "feeling" but that is often impossible to describe or measure so let's just focus on coaching and mentoring.

A few different things are being discussed here at the same time. This is my position: coaching and mentoring is by far the most important thing on the road to developing good technique. The thing is that some have argued that D09 by itself makes beginners play worse. What i said as my...

OK. I can counterexample this to death, but my main point is that this has very little to do with whether the rubber is good/great for a playing level, whether a objectively suitable for a player, how reasonable it is to expect a player to adapt to a rubber or whether a player would play better...

The musclepong case was based on Victor's case 2. Did you add nuance to Victor's case 2? My point is simple - using anyone's two day opinion of a rubber as strong evidence of its nature is not a good argument. I am not sure why you are pointing out the limitations of what I wrote when I used...

And a story about a guy who used 09c for two days and got rid of it says something about 09c? A story about another guy who has played for years with all wood blades and traditional rubbers and then switches to carbon blade plus 09c does say a lot about 09c? I guess we have different standards...

Hitting below the belt I see... not a problem. I would never tell you that you obviously didn't know something when the very point at issue is that from a beginner perspective, they are not that different, other than price. I asked a few people who I trust who use both H3 and D09c whether...

So I re-engineered the reddit link and it was basically someone saying he played with cell ball with a wood and mark 5, then played with wood and h2, then took a break and came back, noticed stuff was too slow, and then tried carbon and 09c (good decision, but I suspect he neither got coaching...