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IF you will pay for postage, sure!

The true Carbon is arguably stiffer and less forgiving than the Butterfly ALCs (I used the true carbon for the last month - thought it was for me, but realized that it was a bit too fast for my style and if Lermanator wants a free TC to use, I can gladly give him one as I will be giving most of...

Curious - how many Hinoki blades have you played with? Does Hinoki quality have nothing to do with age? And if it is true that higher quality hinoki makes the blades feel better, why is the feeling being compared to that of people who kill elephants for ivory?

Not a fan of mercy points. It's his prerogative.

Use Tenergy. The silly questions will end fast. I already have a high spin level. With certain balls my spin is ridiculous. When I loop the Nittaku I feel like it is speed glue era spin. I think the Evolution -S series is special.

Nah. The 2000 level players will handle me fine it is all in my head.

Look at the video of the blade and make up your own mind. I don't argue over facts - it is either koto or it is not, but I am not trusting that database over my eyes and the Butterfly spec chart.

You should have replied, "We'll see", old farmer!

I am using the Tibhar Inca (incidentally, a Nexy designed blade) and it has a hinoki-outer ply. To make things worse, it has a ball grabbing ALC ply for when you loop hard so the blade feels even more linear than most Hinoki blades. To make top it all off, I combined it with Evolution MX-S...

When I wrote ZOO in my long post that Carl liked, I really meant the ZJK (sorry - autocorrect). According to Butterfly, the ZJK, TBS, TB-ALC, Viscaria and Kenta Matsudaira are all different takes on the same Koto-ALC plies (different handles mostly and maybe balance and some coating for the...

A lob is actually a heavy spin shot. I understand what you are saying but I am more with pgpg on this. A lob messes you up because it kicks and it is hard to track the bounce - I have never felt this way playing Philippe.

He is a chopper - what about him?

Inverted. Didn't even check. IF you lob with anything but inverted, you belong in the psychiatric ward. Beyond that, all things are possible.

Vs a lobber - the match did not count as out team won the tie on the prior match which was being played at the same time as this one - had a severe second set meltdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hugd40FC5E

Yeah - I remember seeing that and wondering how many players in the world would have the balance to miss the smash and recover to play the ball... truly a wonder of the table tennis world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PttUj4y528 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uazpLOgm8Uw The second video has a guy with a very interesting style. Not sure how I survived that match but I pushed a lot of balls.

Red side is inverted. Black is long pips.

Lol - nah - I have all the matches. I was asked not to release some and I also want to keep those including teenagers private. So I will release over time as I have time to title and edit.

One of my eight losses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoG0FRUWE4Q One of my twelve wins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B60SAKRHPTU I played way too many matches.

I am playing wth a Mazunov on and off now. It is truly a fantastic blade, far more control than you would expect for a blade so fast. I am not bold enough to reduce the head size but I wish I could do so and test. I suspect that I might develop a setup with short pips on the backhand that...