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I have large hands, but I prefer using handles that most people find too small or too flat and to use grip tape. But how I hold the racket nowadays is more similar to how Persson/Karaksevic/Moregardh/Bengsston hold/held it. Some people play shake hand with penhold rackets, and it isn't because...

Probably shouldn't be responding to the same post twice, but Carl is making what I think is a good point and I want to make some subtle points about it. To make an all wood blade faster, you need to play with the outer wood plies to increase the rebound and the thickness of the inner plies...

So company after event at SPIN bar, had company ping pong tournament, but was allowed to use my personal racket. Since the word had gotten round that I had a national ranking (that is how rumors work) and that my playing level was way above everyone else, I played with the racket though I would...

Long V to me felt like a wooden racket without any serious carbon upside - obviously opinions and quality of rackets differ. Your views will be interesting.

Over time I learned to just stop thinking that extreme racket care made a big difference and used water or my breath and my hand. I use the protector sheets to keep the right level of tack.

As long as you feel you will have enough time to break it in, go ahead. I learned over time to force myself to stop giving a lick about my equipment unless the glue job was do bad that the rubber was coming off. Because once I started the match, all I wanted to do was focus on the match. So...

NDH, Actually, my experience in life and business tells me that a lot of successful people do well by ignoring all the things that make their arguments untenable. As a great philosopher once said, it is easy to resolve a contradiction by making a distinction. So people end up making...

Wait, you said I can't beat you with a handicap of 7 points. We can resolve this with a match. No arguments. Just a match, best of 7, with objectively demonstrable results. No argument or theory. Like I said, I have too much success doing many things in life to put much value in your...

I think it makes sense to put your money where your mouth is, brokenball. How much are you willing to risk on the idea that I cannot beat you with a 7 handicap in a best of 7 match?

So to fully be transparent, here is my play in 2012. I have clearly gained a lot of weight which is not necessarily a good thing...

So I am currently in Philly, went to my old TT club, met up with some old friends and hitting partners and did a lot of hitting/training. Played two matches against tough opponents, got lucky in winning them both, but since I have to travel light in the era of paying for bags, carried no...

I don't think it makes sense to apologize for how you look on video, the people who mock how others look on video are people who have never recorded themselves or people who are mocking other people who like to pretend they are pros on videos. Recording yourself creates self awareness of how...

Well, don't blame it on the filming, filming is important to learn from and has zero impact on the match other than your mental awareness of it. Try to figure out what about your mindset the filming is adjusting and then adapt to it. The human brain is a correlation engine, it is easy to get...

First of all, the opponent has a weird ball (doesn't topspin) and he is reasonably consistent (which is what TT is really about). It is common to struggle against these players until you get used to their game and adapt and one should be proud but not arrogant about it, especially if one...

Hardness tends to refer to the sponge. But it can also refer to pip configuration as some pip configurations even on softer sponge feel "harder". Fastarc G1 and C1 both have a relatively hard pip configuration but C1 has a medium sponge while G1 has a medium hard sponge. Here is the classic...

Public is more about accessibility than about ownership, but if the ownership has a policy, then yes that policy is key. But the main thing is that it isn't the right of the opponent per se that plays a role, it is more the policy of the ownership.

Unless you are a minor, I protest that. The tournament organizer may have a say, but there is no right not to be filmed in a public place in the US.

I was wondering where my account went to, now I realize it must be in part a time zone thing. No biggie.

Did April Fool's Day come a month late or did she just see the handwriting on the wall that she wasn't going to make it since she can't play the WTTC?

Isn't the Primorac Carbon with Dignics 09c what Timo and Groth use? Nothing solves all the problems and everything has tradeoffs. Until you build it and test, there is always the potential (which is often actualized) for there to be ranges of impact where your natural impulses are not in line...