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It is more about how willing you are to make adjustments. You won't be able to do exactly the same stroke with blades of different speeds and get the same results. The Boll ALC may give you less of the kind of feedback you may be used to with the Grubba. Your arm may be too tight so more...

Yes and when playing a guy with medium pips it is not the blocking or the looping away from the table you care about. The guy keeps you close to the table and you have to play with enough spin to stay in the point. And as you pointed out, pushing short with the Schlager is not easy.

There are really slow defensive blades (DEF-), and there are really stiff carbon blades (OFF+). Everything in the middle is relative to style and competence. But most of the issues people have with the things that are not at the extreme ends are fixable by training, sometimes on strokes...

Yeah. I can see Andrew Baggaley making mince meat of me using hardbat no matter what I use and next to that, Stiga Allround plys Mark V is a rocket.

Because you need to be relatively athletic or very experienced to do what they do really well so you are often better off using Euro rubbers.

This is one take. There are others. Consistency is not the only thing that wins points, spin and speed do as well. It is very hard to get a topspin ball moving with a slower blade. In the men's game, it is also conventional to step back a little and play larger strokes. Again not as easy...

To be honest, the Violin and the Grubba are different. And speed glue and the celluloid ball made things different. In my view you can use anything you want. There was a time when people thought that certain strokes were only for certain levels of players. Or that speed gluing can only be...

I think the camera angle qnd aspects of Boll's technique is giving a wrong impression of what is happening. Boll is going something very similar. He just doesn't use as much core rotation for his stroke as most people so it is harder to see.

Timo Boll actually achieves the same thing as the Iranian player in the original post by using a whipping motion with his wrist. So he never actually stops during the take back. Or if he does, he times his acceleration to make a quick backswing with the wrist and body before coming forward...

Now we are starting to get into word debates. The exceptions are coming. Whatever happened to just admitting that you didn't know that Ma Long was using 48 to 50 degree sponge and that you were wrong? Or that people who have seen and tested Timo's racket have said that he uses 50 degree...

Henzell used the same rubber on both sides. You obviously don't read. Walker used the same hard rubber (M1 ) on both sides. Both Gauzy and Calderano used 47 degree rubbers or more on both sides. Unfortunately, people can only read what they can understand. Tenergy 05 is a better rubber...

Fix your punctuation. Do you mean pros use 45 - 50 or that no pros use 45-50? The main reason why Vega Pro is not used as much as Tenergy is the same reason why Fastarc G1 is not used as much as Tenergy - historically they were clearly worse vs Tenergy with the cell ball in terms of speed and...

Maybe maybe not. But Fastarc G1 is a mid hard rubber. It shouldn't be treated like a rock.

Samson Dubina is a pro. Moreover, Ma Long and many provincial players like Kaden Xu use a harder Hurricane sponge on their backhand than many people do on the forehand. It is not specially soft as I have used these rubbers myself. Just softer than the Hardness of their preferred forehand...

The weight room awaits... all puns intended.

It depends on the player but while the backhand usually is a shorter and more spin oriented stroke that can be helped by a softer rubber with more speed, some players just prefer to think of their forehand like their backhand. In those cases, harder sponges help. I might play better with q...

You need to get out and meet more pros. The decision to use a rubber is about what you are trying to do with your stroke. If your approach to looping and blocking on both sides is comparable, then using the same rubber on both sides is perfectly fine. Samson Dubina is one of many players who...

Bending the elbow is not the Same thing as raising the upper arm which is what usually causes the blade to hit the head. Getting lower with your body by folding the torso and lowering the knees is always the preference unless you have a good reason not to.

Lower the body, use the wrist and keep the elbow down throughout the stroke. Don't raise the shoulder or upper arm. Lift the body with the core or legs.

Yeah. Lula clearly needs to meet and play DerEchte to know how to read DE's posts properly. They are really sandbagging posts.