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Funny you should say that. I have to give credit to UpsideDownCarl, DerEtche and NextLevel though. I actually picked up quite a bit from little tidbits they threw around here and there. Reading several of their comments actually made me rethink some things. I still continue to play with harder...

Guys, guys... We need to focus here, we've completely strayed from the critical matter at hand. The only question on everybody's mind... How de we get our hands on this official DHS national custom hurricane ML blade, DHS blue sponge hurricane rubber and red ML backhand hurricane rubber...

Bas anyone come across euro style cheap non tacky Chinese rubbers with medium/medium high throw? Focus 3 snipe is decent but the throw is definitely on the lower end. Yinhe High throw rubbers are nice but on the tacky side, and their non tacky (moon/Mars) throw low. I came across Yinhe Apollo...

China, Home of the drunken style Kung fu and drunken style TT!

So to TL/DR (too long/didn't read) your comment, ZJK purpose may be to bring home Olympic gold and not necessarily anything else, so that is what his training regiment is geared towards? And as such, his performance outside of the olympics has less bearing on his status in LGL's eyes?

I think the humidity is causing the problem here. Here in Texas, on occasion I will leave my bat in its case in the car under my seat parked out in the 90 degree scorching sun. While this is probably not good for the bat, I feel the dehydration/baking process does improves the wooden paddle and...

This is interesting. how do you maintain your paddle? Do you keep it exposed to air/light or do you keep it in tight case? What is the weather like in Australia, and does your paddle get exposed to weather elements?

Thank you for bringing this up. I was unaware of his injury, nor did I know it was so bad that he was bed ridden. I feel I need to reevaluate my stance and hold off judgement.

See, the idea is for you to play with something that isn't easy. The reason you are able to do much more with harder rubbers is because you probably have sound fundamentals and good power. However, as you've mentioned softer/bouncier rubbers are harder for you to control, implying you haven't...

I think ZJK is a hell of an athlete with an incredible TT game. I however, do not think he has invested as much into TT since the last olympics as the likes of XX and ML, which is why I'm bitter. It appears to me that he has been pretty much coasting since the last olympics, and hasn't taken his...

So far, none of my H3Ns and TG3N (6 total) have had any problems with tackiness. My oldest H3N (nearly 3 years of playing) still maintains its tackiness. If your rubber is loosing tack, then it's either dirty, cold or dry. If cleaning with water doesn't work the first time, try again a...

As the self professed king of baby oil boosters, I can say this much. The baby oil treatment is more of a physical treatment rather than chemical treatment as is my understanding. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my assumption with paraffin oil is: the release of voc gasses resulting from...

The facilities/TT hall at Rio or ZJK's performance. Either way, both the weather at Rio and Hao Shuai were making it rain :p All joking aside, I still can't shake this feeling that ZJK has fallen too far behind, and that no amount of last minute training will get him caught up. However, if...

I believe the "technical term" for it is RBF, or Resting Bitch Face. :-P

Okay, time to share some Interesting facts about colors (that I have learned as part of my game programming and assets research). Human eyes perceive different colors of equal intensities as having the varying intensities. It so happens, when breaking light down into the RGB (red green and...

Some say she's still standing there to this day.

A dose of popcorn or a popcorn dosa?

I want Dan to review these!!!

I really want a video with this as the subtitle. Soneone please make it happen!

While I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion, I do disagree with this premise. It has been my realization over the years that there is a strong overlay between pattern recognition and high speed reactionary performances. Human beings are remarkable at recognizing patterns. Be it...