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  1. Durability of D80 and D64?

    The pips do degrade a bit differently but that comes down to personal style IMHO. Not enough to make the claim that one is far more durable than the other except maybe you are an extreme brush player.
  2. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    I would need a video where you play controlled looping to be able to answer the question. The truth is that the way you imagine your play gives yourself a lot of credit. And that is okay, the most important think in TT is to enjoy your play, not to care about how others think of it unless they...
  3. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Usually, at the lowest level the sitting ball is the very easy ball. Not moving fast, we'll placed in your strike zone and esst for you to read so you can attack it and put it away with a good shot. Table tennis attacking in my opinion is about playing to get such sitting balls and expanding...
  4. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Your forehand is winning and costing you a lot of points. I don't know whether you felt the kid was so much better than you that you had to take so much risk. What you need to work on is either increasing the consistency of yout putaway shot or to build out the in-between game with more...
  5. Harimoto: "It's presumptuous to call it a rivalry." (#1135)

    Thr main thing working in her favor is that rhe WTTC is not as big as deal as it once was. The Smashes deliver similar ranking points. She also has the bronze Olympic points for a while.
  6. Fan zhendong, Ma Long and Cheng Meng announces Retirement from WTT/ITTF

    Nah, the reality is more insidious than that but I will leave that to others to find out and discuss. Let's just say that there are people who benefit from the CNT playing WTT within the CNT so it is more likely that FZD will need to accept the insane WTT schedule to play than for real change...
  7. Fan zhendong, Ma Long and Cheng Meng announces Retirement from WTT/ITTF

    For now. And it is really a WTT fines protest. China can still field him if they want to or are willing to psy his fines.
  8. Fan zhendong, Ma Long and Cheng Meng announces Retirement from WTT/ITTF

    FZD can still surpass Ma Long, he can win a couple more WTTCs and another gold in 2028.
  9. Are inner carbon blades an exception to "don't go carbon yet"?

    I prefer ALC to ZLC for how I play, I feel SALC plays like ALC but faster in a material way that doesn't hurt your overall game. As in it is an improvement in speed and in a weird way spin/control that goes well with ball holding rubbers. So you could go from say T05 to Dignics or Dignics 05...
  10. Fan zhendong, Ma Long and Cheng Meng announces Retirement from WTT/ITTF

    There is no reason why they can't field Fan, especially in team events. He is just tired of the WTT shuffle.
  11. Are inner carbon blades an exception to "don't go carbon yet"?

    As someone who used mostly all wood blades up until 2020, I would say that while preference is always personal, if you want to take a step or two off the table without using a composite, you had better chop and even then, I am not entirely sold. Quality control and the reliability of composite...
  12. Fan zhendong, Ma Long and Cheng Meng announces Retirement from WTT/ITTF

    It's clear to me based on the recent post translation that he hasn't retired from WTT permanently. He has the Olympic medal as leverage and can return to the tour on his own terms in a year or two or just be nominated by China to play if necessary.
  13. ZJK blades discontinued

    Korbel retired and the Korbel is still out there. They don't retire brands without strong marketing reasons. Boll and FZD blades will be around for a while though LSD blades will surely be in the pipeline.
  14. Dignics 05 vs Tenergy 05 Hard

    Gozo will give up TT before he gives up his prideful addiction to 1-ply speed, power and rebound.
  15. Dignics 05 vs Tenergy 05 Hard

    The notes are quite reasonable. I wouldn't agree on D05, it largely depends on proximity to the table. D09c is definitely the spinniest but also requires the most effort to use. I think most high level rally players who like hard sponge and don't care much for the control will prefer T05H...
  16. Attacking Long Pip Players like Ni Xia Lian and Zhou Xintong... but at the amateur level?!

    I found these thrilling to watch. Is something wrong with me? @Gozo Aruna, please ensure...
  17. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Really bad knees. Sometimes I try but every time, the pain sends me back to square one. Though I am going to keep trying for the next few months as long as I can add some general strength.
  18. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Comments welcome. My only loss from a friendly event on Sunday (did cost me first place though):
  19. I am taking a break from Table Tennis. How far will my skills drop?

    30 days isn't long - 6 months to a year to a few years, that is a different story.
  20. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Use the pips and see how far that gets you... it's not really about the equipment but about the desire to expose yourself to them and learn them... I was looking at some of my old matches against pips players and it helped me realize why I destroyed most of the pips players I played at NA...
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