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This interpretation - where did you get it from?

Yes but if you argue over this, don't be surprised if people don't take you seriously. The rule is hard to justify once VOCs are taken out of the equation and rubber thickness limits are not exceeded.

Another issue is who coaches you especially in situations where you can't pick your coach. In India for example, many players learn pips because their coaches use pips. That is a technical limit right? If you watch the match between Waldner and the Korean defender Li Gun Sang, the...

I know the man and I'm pretty sure he didn't, he pretty much wanted to play with his personal grip rather than traditional shakehand, he mostly plays with the inverted side for both forehand and backhand and uses the anti as a change up to hold the table when he is on trouble and doesn't want...

The devil is always in the details, but the issue is probably more with taking the ball early, but there is nothing wrong with extending as long as you don't break the arm structure. It's more of a feeling though the elbow is stable with it. Also thr ability to fish and loop and block...

Oh, I know what I mean when I say you don't know enough players. You do too. Do you think Danny Seemiller used anti because of technical limits? And if someone tried to play like Danny Seemiller or Eric Boggan and used anti, was it because of technical limits? You can replace this with He...

Exactly. I know players who wanted to be defenders. I know players who idolized others who used pips. You just dont know enough players.

Do you know any players who wanted to become choppers or play like Wang Tao or Deng Yaping or He Zhi Wen or Johnny Huang? Maybe you just dont know that many players. Ai Fukuhara and Mima Ito - you think they were influenced by Deng or some prior player or you seriously believe they don't know...

And if you use rubber cleaner, which can increase or reduce the tackiness or oil content of the rubber, you are not?

You can argue all you want, but almost all professionals are boosting in one way or another. It is hard to play table tennis at the top levels without well boosted rubbers either by the manufacturer or in may cases yourself. All the ITTF can measure is racket thickness. They should have made...

No, I think there are good reasons to ignore an unenfoeceble rule, especially one badly written, in an age where we see the serve rule is terribly enforced and the rule was made largely to keep TT manufacturers profitable and little elae.

No need to try to make this sound like the people who disagree with you don't know something you do. It's always been clear that in addition to being unenforceable since the use of boosters largely replicate manufacturing processes of boosted rubbers, the language around racket treatment is...

Most people who know the lady pictured above and that she used long pips on her backhand would realize how ridiculous the technical argument is without context.

Elbow positioning is 95% of this, but I don't remember you blocking weird. If you have the right arm structure, everything tends to work out whether you take the ball early or late. But the arm structure and elbow need to be in the right place.

That is insane.

It is helpful when you write things like this, so we can know the kinds of assumptions you are making and whether your statements are representative of the situations that many players face. You can watch players like Ibrahima Diaw on youtube talk about his situation in his vlogs and see...

You are allowed to ask me questions as well, you are claiming I misrepresented you, but I am pretty sure I did not. Your hate and disdain for people who play with pips shines through everything you write, you come from a place where pips means that the person couldn't play with inverted...

It is less sticky but it requires more effort to play because of harder sponge. Some of it depends on how the sheet is cared for (even Rakza Z loses some stickiness if you don't use protector sheets all the time). The most important thing is that you are okay with it. Everyone's feeling is...

"Technical limits" : please explain what this means beyond something is wrong with the player because they cannot play with inverted. Because you keep saying that "technical rubber" is used because someone has "technical limits" as opposed to just accepting that the person might just want to...

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