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It doesn't unless you drive spin to the wood a lot, or have the kind of feeling that takes advantage of extra sponge to control the ball. But this is neither here nor there. The only reason why my current rubber is max sponge is that there is no 2.0 being sold anymore. With quality hard...

@turbozed will appreciate this. @JJ Ng @brokenball Not so much...

MXS was one of my favorite rubbers for sure. OVT never hooked me. Sometimes I hit with a rubber briefly and if I don't feel something special in one stroke, I just don't spend much time. Especially if for me, my opening topspin loses bite.

Omega V Asia to me was kind of like Golden Tango without the tack, I loved that rubber, but it stopped working when you didn't hit the ball hard which was what took me off it. I just couldn't swing that way all the time, for me, I have a brushing gear with GT that I couldn't find with OVA, and...

Glad to hear this, C-1 is a much better rubber for the kind of direction I would guide a player towards than Vega Europe. Hope at some point you give it a try on both sides.

To be fair, you might have ended up in a similar place just by playing TT - lots of people end up with knee issues playing TT even if they didnt get particularly low. And even players like Ma long have had surgery despite being professional athletes.

Not so much attack you, but wonder why you do it while arguing that you are not improving as much as you would like to. Not that it isn't possible to EJ and train to improve, but that it calls into question how serious you are about improving.

Everything is quicker nowadays and catered to players who train a lot with the new ball. That doesn't mean you have to be quick immediately, especially if you didn't play at an extremely high level as a youngster and glue a lot. The main question is whether you are going to train and invest...

There are some mild things here and there on the forehand, but everything is looking $1mm times better. Usually, it is not common to practice against multiple backspin balls in a row unless one is playing a chopper. Usually, you serve backspin, get a backspin push, loop the backspin push, get...

Tacky rubber definitely requires breaking in, because tack slows the ball the down. You at least need to play with it to get used to it and sometimes to reduce the tack (or at least get the feeling it gives you out of your head). If you use any tacky rubber long enough, the tack reduces a...

It is a strategy yes, but far more effective is a bit much. The most effective shot is to hit the middle. The others are riskier but the key is to figure out how to thwart opponent predictions as a good blocker will bring back any of those shots with some reliability except the one to the middle.

Don't over think it then, just play.

When you glue,, let the layers on blade and rubber dry before attaching. It might take an hour and you might help the process a bit by fanning the rubber, but the bond you get from letting the glue dry is much stronger, though it means you have to attach more carefully because if you misplace...

If it really feels dead and it is original, then reglue it. No way Dignics 09c should feel dead. If you are hitting with another player, they should be able to see what you think if the contact is not good. And it is a bit stickier when it starts out, and the sheets will keep it so, some...

The matches need to have stakes. Xu Xin could be Ma Long in Tour events and trials as well. It needs to be a a WTTC or something like that for LGY to get serious consideration.

The funny thing is that this is kinda true for me too but in a weird way. Coincidence or causation? I suspect coincidence, but I have made a deliberate decision to reduce cardio and gain muscle, though it clearly isn't lean muscle lol....

Would have found kneesovertoesguy much earlier in my life and also eaten a lot more protein (being vegan did a lot of damage to my health and body). In general, most of the other things I did reasonably well. I am still learning stuff now like how to brace my core...

Last match from this event for this forum - on both videos, any comments are welcome. This is a more unfamiliar opponent and he did surprise me to be honest, though I had played him once before with a similar score.

Yeah, not easy to see the blade shape sometimes though it is funny what people who are not table tennis fanatics say when they see me using it lol. I also have a pretty high grip on the handle and large hands and camera distance didn't really help. I actually wanted to make some comments on...

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