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It is clearly a flatter counter but he never claimed to countertopspin, he argued quite rightly that he is attacking the opponent's topspin.

In the immortal words of Paul Drinkhall, everyone does this a bit differently. I can accept the arc makes it harder to block but that arc also makes it slower. There are no free lunches in the sport, that arc is what a more direct or less curved path means for ball travel speed. D80 is more...

Not sure what your question is. I loop with 05 and 80 and arguably if you have a full loop, 05 might have more quality but the trajectory of 80 is usually lower and faster. So with 80 I can hit the ball past my opponent a little easier than I can with 05. There is a reason some players like 80...

Beware, the CNT is working on the problem and wants to relegate all Japanese players to Tanaka tier..

I think your post hit a lot of good points. IMHO, the reason people don't use T05H as amateurs is a durability issue. If T05H played the way it played for a full year instead of at most 4 months as an amateur, I would use it more. For pros, durability is less of an issue so it is more...

Come on, Dignics 05 being slow is why many players still use Tenergy on forehand and is also what drove the creation of SALC. It's a preference/evaluation based on may things and 05 definitely holds and arcs the ball longer than 80 and 64 in the same series. It's nothing to do with Zyre 03.

Samson Dubina used G1 pretty much forever (unless he switched to P1).

D05 is a bit slow to me and its blocking leaves a bit to be desired for me. I am still surprised that many people use D05 over D80 and I credit that to the order in which the rubbers were released and legacy of T05

Everyone plays best with what they can use (I heard a rumor that Ma Long doesn't even use max sponge), but what I have heard consistently is that once you have ball catching skills, the extra sponge always helps.

Not a believer in Golden V. It sounds too much like something that belongs to idol worshoppers.

Is it just me or has Xu Chenhao put on some pounds in retirement? No more National Games or CTTSL for him?

I need this rubber already...

Pros always get a chance to pick the best out of a bunch, so it all comes down to how much you trust the Donic quality control process. This is why Butterfly is generally more trusted than other brands, even with what they charge, you can be fairly confident you are getting a reasonable blade...

Bad matchups and some interesting results. The Korean attacker guy Kim beat Eugene Wang 3-0 for example and Wei Wang (chopper) lost to Kang(chopper) 3-0 as well. But if Eugene had played the chopper, that would have been at least a split as Eugene eats choppers for breakfast. The golden game...

Fairly confident a lot of companies had tried this ricosheet before including Nexy and ESN. Butterfly will be interesting for this one.

It's something you can test, it's really that the three lower fingers are connected to elbow/forearm in a way the thump and the index finger are not. Penholders who press with the lower three fingers have some of the same issues. While I am commenting without video, the main things are to get...

I always remember the words of Paul Drinkhall when he reviewed the Evolution rubbers. They should be placed in more reviews of equipment but unfortunately, not everyone is equally self aware. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/evolution-mx-s.10240/post-109208 Come on -at this...

Beware of wrist motion, a lot of my technique and pain management improved when I started making my wrist motions and pronations smaller but better timed with an improved initial contact point on the ball. My wrist especially, I don't let the bat turn over, I keep the wrist leading throughout...

Not at all, in fact if you watch the reviews I posted from the Russian guy, setting the angle early and having a precise swing are critical for close to the table use, but that the raw spin is very high and almost like Hurricane (which we can see in Togami's play). One of the things about D09c...

This actually the standard way a new rubber with a different approach/technique to using it gets reviewed (Tenergy 05 was very similarly reviewed when it initially came out). A lot comes down to how threatening it can be in the hands of a skilled user and whether what that skilled user does can...