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Other than handle, it is the same as the Amultart - do you specifically need the Garaydia or do you just want a blade with similar composition?

Depends on your playing styles but on a blade like that, you need more rebound unless you have a lot of power.

On the "science" and "art" of matching blade with rubber, that is actually for each individual to decide for himself. There was a very good article on a blog that is gone now that had some great principles even if I wasn't entirely sold on the actual recommendations. The main thing is that you...

You forgot Croissant. Don't forget Croissant...

"The space between the ball and the net is defined by the ball, the net and its indefinite upward extension." The question is how to interpret this. I understand how some interpret it, but I don't think it means what they think it means (I could be wrong though). The guides for umpires usually...

Even if the contact is not visible. Some of those Hugo arm pulls may be late. Sometimes the head may block or the contact is behind the hip. Just keep looking for cues and fight through it. You will be grateful when in a high stakes match, the umpiring is had but you are used to playing...

Table tennis serving rules are a mess, let's just leave it at that. To play well, you have to just watch and read the ball better and forget about the serving rules, or you will lose matches just to thinking about dodgy serves. Even matches you could win. Otherwise, my dodgy serves will get...

The key phrase is 'infinite extension upwards'. It's a technical detail, in practice no one would call it an obstruction except the extra-logical type but the arm is still in that space when the ball is past the peak. And it is a common approach to serving, many people are much worse in...

The definition of the space between the ball and the net shows that the serve is not legal as the free arm is still in that space, but again, many players do not really care about these things as long as they can see the ball.

K3 is probably your best bet, though if you got rid of the sticky requirement, things like Dignics 05 are also reasonable.

The pendulum serve has an interesting history, as does serving in general. Most pendulum serves have the exact problem that you describe and most of the time, they are not deemed illegal in any meaningful way because the contact itself is usually visible, especially to a someone with the same...

I recommend K3 - lots of people who use it on forehand just use it as well on backhand because they find it just makes sense. Of course it has some performance degradation, but it is still a decent rubber after depending on how you play.

Yeah, you have to care about the way your paddle looks to care about such stuff. I determined aeons ago that the way my paddle looks has very little to do with how well it plays.

Since I gave an incomplete answer, let me add one more point - it is very important in table tennis IMHO to gather information from your "mistakes" as well as your makes. People who only think a shot is good when the ball lands on the table fail to use their mistakes to adjust. If you use your...

Yeah, I think they just aren't serial EJs like us, so they don't need to save money lol.

Usually true but not always true in my experience. Weird anomalies do happen.

In that case, we almost all buy fakes, no?

Buy it and try it, no?

Find a training partner, let him serve you the serves, and use your strokes and you will adapt quickly. One of the biggest mistakes in TT when people learn at an age where they have language skills is that they overly think about things that are best learned and mastered with trial and error...

I went into the gym where we meet up to play on Sunday. The dangers of EJing are creeping back into my game lol as I have 4 setups with which I play fairly indistinguishably. I took a lesson and actually managed to record some of it. Then I played my lefty hitting partner and as always it...