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The combativeness is largely because by reopening the thread, you wittingly or unwittingly are encouraging a guy who repeatedly enjoys claiming his supposed understanding of the physics enables him to rudely tell others how they should play or select equipment etc and that such expertise...

It's a bit self-serving to argue that one can understand the physics of the game at a significant level and not play or coach or even design TT equipment well enough to show such understanding has utility. It would be similar to claiming to be a brilliant civil engineer but being unable to...

That's the issue: a 1600 player at best (with a tail wind making up 200 of those points) telling a 2200+ player with confidence what improves table tennis play and what is and isn't bad advice without any reservations about his limitations. You can't make this stuff up. Baal was not delusional...

Sounds like a good day without great breaks. We just have to hope we can stay in it long enough tk get great breaks. I think between work and family, I might have to take a break again this year. My parents and kids are getting older and I really need to reorganize a lot of stuff. Hoping I...

in practice, people who are not pros rarely push a rubber to its max and Dignics has a harder to access spin potential, but a higher one as well. People who play in the playing zone of professionals or closer to it will probably experience the Butterfly claims. But most mortals will not get...

The thing is that your skill level and tastes evolve as you compete and improve. So in 5 years time, the rubber you find unusable today is what you might need to improve.

I think this is closer to the truth for most players and is why Butterfly raised the price.

It depends for sure, I would say people who prefer the medium sponge stuff are more into rallying and people who prefer the harder stuff are more into powerful attacking. With the new ball, T05 just doesn't have the same venom especially on the forehand. But for someone who wants to keep...

T05 generates more spin at lower impacts, but D05 is much better behaved on passive shots because of this and generates more spin at higher impacts. I am trying out D05 right now but it will be a while before I can decide whether I can use it or whether I should go back to Rakza Z. It is just...

His name is Sean O'Mara.

I think you might need to read the argument before making comments that show you miss the point entirely. Again, if Japan is not presenting itself as a team where individual victory is subjugated to team success, then apply that standard to it is clearly unfair. But since China often does...

There is a doctor on YouTube whose overall philosophy I agree with and whose specific opinion on infrared saunas is that it isn't an extremely safe bet given that it isnt obvious that we would have a basis in historical evolution to expose internal organs to high powered infrared (hence he is a...

When you have beaten one player 3 times in a row, it becomes less about your level and more about the matchup IMHO.

What does Chen know that others do not when it comes to Wang Manyu?

I haven't heard the Japanese girls explicitly say things like that their mission is to make sure Japan is the last country standing and that their mission is done once they have done that. Have you? Defeating China is something that every country is trying to do, nothing special at all. You...

They speak of their goals and missions that ways, you can't male fun of people for agreeing with how you see yourself when you haven't been diagnosed with anything dangerous.

Hmm... so you are telling me that I moved from using a rubber similar to what Darko Jorgic used to a rubber that no one I know uses (Rakza Z family) and now to a Harimoto rubber... not sure what to make of my EJing...

Looks like you had a crystal ball. Despite buying it, I didn't try Rakza Z deliberately - a friend gave me his Rakza Z EH sheets on his spare paddle and I tried them for a bit and noticed that the sponge color was wrong and that he had given me Rakza Z. The rubber isn't powerful but the spin...

Everything is early in this competition, the seedings automatically set the draw. No easy opponents here. It will be the same when the men play in January.

Diaz's backhand punch is her signature shot, but I think her creative and feeling game (including some potentially illegal/borderline serves) is overall underrated and that she can can win a match of serve/receive and consistency over other top women, especially when she takes special attention...