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Good luck with it. I have gone down that path and it is a sexy one, but one that needs to be experienced to know that it is a wrong one for most players who have not done the required homework. But you learn in life from mistakes as well as successes so it is a good thing to try.

This is the key. Playing faster is about reading the game faster, not about about hitting the ball harder. But you don't get to read the game if you are always hitting the ball as hard as you can. One way to work on reading the game is to actually play mostly flat shots/blocks and just watch...

Sounds to me like you are changing just because you are curious, which is not a bad reason, but is not a great reason either. The reason you change to a faster blade is usually that you are very consistent with your current blade, but want to see if you can get more speed without losing that...

What's your playing level and style? It's never a good sign when a blade is starting to feel slow so how did you conclude this?

Thanks, sspark80. The corollary of this is that with practice, your rally shots get better and become more consistent with about 60-80% of the power of your kills over time. So you will often simply play a rally shot and win points with it as well. Then as you learn to play faster, your...

Andy, You asked me whether I thought you could become a ranked player in the time frame that you set for yourself and I didn't say yes because I thought you would do so as a powerlooping junior. I Said yes because with the right mindset and approach to technique and competing...

This is exactly why I get confused about why the YEO has so many fans - the blade was one of my first blades before I knew anything about blades in general, and ever since I discovered limba outer plies, I realized the blade was too hard. So when I see people raving about it, I get...

It varies with equipment and player style at the lower levels. JP03 1.8 and T80 1.9/2.0 are very different rubbers. For me, I found that the real question was how you won points and how the equipment affected that. If you win by blocking and pushing, its very different from if you win by serve...

I apologize - a sock puppet would never make such a personal post.

Spin is easier and better with Euro rubber than Chinese rubber and softer topsheet/sponge than harder topsheet/sponge. But maximum spin ability of harder topsheet/sponge is higher. Tackiness reduces the spin but it makes it easier to trap power shots so you can loop with power all the time if...

Not necessarily true and probably not true for you either. You will find that level and style are not the same thing. Stronger swings are not the only thing that determine playing level. I would prefer Vega Pro to Rhyzm as well and it is not about my playing level. Some people prefer...

Let's just say that whatever the flaws in your serve, the practical results are outstanding and you have a talent for this. What I can't tell though is how significantly you are varying either the spin or the amount. But I can't read spin either...

Rhyzm is a good high control spinny rubber but unless you use other rubbers or boost, you may not appreciate how hard it is to spin with it vs tensors with softer topsheets.

YouTube works fine. Then post a link

To be fair to ProPetrov, there are different schools of thought on this. But as others have wisely pointed out, and your point strongly supports this, if he is as good as he says, he should be getting this advice from those he plays around.

A chopper used MX-S once and took off his rubber at the time (T64 - he didn't like T05 because it didn't fit his blocking game) immediately. When he was asked why, he said, "I have never seen anything attack backspin AND block as well as this."

I can't believe anyone would list Airoc as a good backspin lifting rubber unless they were a Stiga sock puppet.

I listed three rubbers! Add in maybe Adidas P7 as well.

Videotape is always the best solution.