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I agree with Carl - when it comes to sponge hardness, it depends on how you swing but more importantly, your preferred contact depth for brush spin and drive spin. I don't swing consistently hard enough to get spin with hardnesses above Chinese/Japanese 38 degrees. I did use 39 degree Big...

https://thoughtsontabletennis.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/introduction-to-table-tennis-chemistry/

http://shop.butterflyonline.com/table-tennis-balls

It says Oct 15 on the site tho (for 12 I dumbly ordered). Likely a mistake as everything else says Dec.

IMO, the Chinese rubbers are cheap. Try them for a month and if you don't like, go back. I used Big Dipper in 38 deg for 6 months and got a lot out of it - not as hard sponged and tacky as some, but still a good tacky rubber. In the end, my blocking technique was too tuned to Euro rubbers so...

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Carl, For some reason, I like to forget or overlook the details that your perceptive mind picks up. I noticed that detail and then put it in the inner recesses of my untappable subconscious until you just reminded me. It takes a high level player to use such a fast blade (think Samsonov or...

Usually, I hear people asking for fast blades and spinny rubbers - fast rubbers is not common. So it takes someone who is confused to ask about fast rubbers or someone who knows what they really want. And yes, fast rubbers suit some games - mine is not one of them as far as I know, though I...

Tareq was a top level p-l-a-y-e-r - it just wasn't in table tennis. :p

May I ask your USATT rating please? I got to USATT 2000 without using Butterfly composite blades. I didn't even use their overpriced wood blades either - I gave away my Primorac OFF- for free. I bought my first Butterfly composite in over 2 and a half years last month (IF ZLC) and I still...

Carl, The man asked a simple question. Do we always have to psychoanalyze his choices? He was very specific - what is Donic's fastest rubber? He didn't say that he was looking for equipment advice etc. If I came on here and asked for Donic's fastest rubber, I hope you guys wouldn't ask me...

When you think this search is a substitute for training to improve your game, get enamored with some "right" matches, then switch them out when the honeymoon period is over for no good reason. The worst kind of EJing is when people switch repeatedly between blades and rubbers in the same...

The lower the level of the player (less looping/spinning capability), the less benefit they derive from boosters and speed glue.

Rubbers are supposed to be glued while curled up - the issue is whether they will stay on or not.

Relatively speaking, the Calibra LTs, Juic Nanospin II or even among the Tenergys, Tenergy 64 when passive blocking vs. Tenergy 05. Even MX-S that I use right now isn't the same as MX-P or T05 in favoring very closed racket angles but it is also the most confusing rubber that I have ever used...

There is also an explanation here https://thoughtsontabletennis.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/introduction-to-table-tennis-chemistry/ in terms of air cells for those who believe in the "tension fairy" because they have sophisticated enough loops to differentiate between tensioned rubbers and...

At MyTT,a poster showed that it might not be so much that the quality of the Nittaku ball is way better. It is actually smaller than the others, which might explain why it plays so similarly to a cell ball.

I'm a notoriously confused decent level EJ, an EJ who argues with other EJs about the value of EJing, and we decent level EJs are all on the same page so we don't really argue - I tend to argue more with the naive EJs. In general, getting too much arc out of any Tenergy 05 or 0FX is a sign of...

Good info, but one correction - FX gives lower arc. You can see it in 05FX most clearly and any of the others if you test it.