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Same here, I already smell some longer term booster that doesn't encourage much hope of longevity from me, but that is to be seen not guessed...

That's just his personality, more Nadal than Djokovic.

Being competitive is tough on the body. Hitting close to a high level but the problem is that when something works, I keep trying to stack something on it and then go back to square one because my body is falling apart. Trying to cut back to 3 days a week but I have an event on Saturday and...

Okay. Sorry i misreprsented you by saying that it only makes sense to brush against backspin. If that changes something material about what you have posted, please share what it is. My point was that brushing without compressing the sponge is a common misrepresentation of what happens when...

No, I am not assuming anything, you said that brushing without compressing the sponge is a bad thing, so I am trying to understand where you are coming from. The truth is that brushing without compressing the sponge is almost impossible, you need the ball to get to the wood to play any...

Great that this was resuscitated, finally placed my order.

You are not the first to argue this, I was discussing with a friend yesterday and he said that they should just fix the rules and let the best players play, China should get 3 players (more so given the extremely low level of some continents). Though whether that encourages the growth of TT, I...

He actually played through a lingering injury. There is a rumour that the real reason the Chinese team visited the US in late 2019 or so (my memory fails me) was that ML needed serious treatment/surgery for his knee.

I agree - a lot will depend on how Sora and Shinozuka develop as I think with their lefty advantages they should be able to support an XD partnership that is better than Hayata and Harimoto. Wouldn't be surprised if something like Shinozuka/Matsushima - Kihara/Harimoto wouldn't have done a...

What you are doing now witn bending the right knee works better for close to the table counterlooping. But for adding topspin to a base shot, not so much. You should not cave in the right leg so much, you should just push through to get back to your beginning position on most regular forehand...

Clicking is the sound of boosted rubber. Sometimes rises to the level of popping.

Yeah, he has some secret logic that he hasn't explained yet.

I didn't stick with it enough to like it, I have already become enamored with Skyline 3.

Even 64 is not terrible, it just doesn't play like the others in a noticeable way when hitting lots of topspins but I have played players who smash and do slow topspins close to the table and faster topspins or lobs away from the table who use 64 because their game is suited to softer rubber...

I have played against players using D80 and have watched two respectable channels (TTD is one of them) review it. I struggle with the idea that there is something that makes D80 obviously worse from a spin perspective vs D05 and on the flip side, it is faster which means a shorter stroke has...

These are all true in context but are not absolute and sometimes cannot be discussed insightful without looking at a specific player, strengths and weaknesses ans relative level. Timo Boll clearly brushes too much as one example. What has that done for his game? His high arcing topspin style...

To be fair you are both making different points. His point is more that there are people for whom training may not make a difference to their overall level (the nature argument) and you are making the point that no matter your physical (and possibly mental) condition, there are ways to get...

D09C is sticky so that is what determines/reduces its spin sensitivity on some shots but without the stickiness, D80 would be less spin sensitive. A lot of it depends on how you play, you aren't going to be trying to push all kinds of serves short with D80, its not the rubber for that, but if...

There is technically less spin on high power strokes but what that means is an open question and given the backhand stroke is very spin oriented usually, having a less spinny rubber on backhand is not a bad thing as it supports a smaller stroke getting both spin and speed (easier to accessthan...

My opinion is that you should try D80. I played two players who used it on backhand and I really couldn't tell the difference with D05 from their attacks. But everyone has told me it blocks better, and I could see that from the warm ups with one of them and the trajectory is slightly lower. So...