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Much appreciated! We'll make sure to follow back any budding supporter!

Hello TTD! This is a shameless plug, so if you aren't feeling helpful, please happily skip this thread! 😁 As some of you may remember, I set up a new team playing in the Northampton Premier League last year (Bugbrooke Badgers). We had our own team kit made up, and this year, I've got a custom...

Hard to tell. Looks like Bluestar weighs 50g cut (assume it's on a standard 157 X 150 but it doesn't say). Which puts it about 1 to 2g heavier than Dignics 05 and the same weight as Dignics 09C.... But there's some guesswork there.

As the title suggests...... Does anyone have the cut weight of each of these rubbers on a blade measuring 158 X 152? It saves me taking mine off to weigh them! 😅

Couple of questions on this Sergio. 1. How accurately can you make the weight/balance? 2. What's your margin for error? If a customer says, "I want it 90g", at what point do you accept it's too heavy or light? + or - 5g?

Sponsorship and familiarity (on the whole). It's a vicious circle.... Junior player wants to play like hero..... So they use the same equipment (for blade, let's take the Viscaria). Junior player turns pro, and gets a sponsorship. Option A - Sponsored by brand they use (Butterfly) and...

During the season (September to April) I’ll use it twice per week, playing 4 matches each night (3 singles and a doubles), with an average match length of…. 20 mins? So that’s 160 minutes per week for matches, and then I’ll have some tournaments at the weekend as well. I change my rubbers...

You are preaching to the choir on the video point. For as long as TTD has existed (slight exaggeration), I've advocated that people should post a short video of their level (just basic stuff) because it really helps add context. It's not to say a newbies opinion becomes worthless, far from it...

OK, I'll admit that I haven't read every post in great detail. But I'm a little lost with this back and forth. Carl is saying he believes it makes a difference to a very small percentage of players with a sensitive feel (be that professionals who have played for years, or amateurs who simply...

Is there any video of your level of play available? D09C will last many months (probably even a year or longer for people playing twice per week or less). My D09C sheet looks awful, but it still spins, grips and does everything I need it to (it's been on for 6 months now). D09C is different...

Hey Diego, nice video! Can I ask a few questions? Are you actually contracted by Sanwei for a length of time (1 year, 2 years etc)? Or is it a "rolling" contract they could stop at any time? Do you get paid for it, or is your benefit the free kit? You talk about "what you can offer to the...

Wow, this thread escalated beautifully! 😂 Just for a second, let’s bring it back to the original post…. We are talking about an extremely uncompetitive club DOUBLES match. That’s about the least important/competitive matchup you can get, only just beating a back yard outdoor match at a family...

Perhaps the initial "setting of the scene" was wrong (or misleading), but in my 20+ years of playing, I've never been at a "club night" where the competitive nature is to the point where you can't have a laugh. Maybe us Brits are just overly sarcastic, but if you don't say "Ohhhhh...

It might be a culture thing, but over in the UK I'd be amazed if these comments weren't happening every single night across the country. It's so common, and to be honest, at a "club night" (not a formal league match or tournament), this would be considered a pretty mundane comment! Why do you...

Timo Boll. The Table Tennis Roger Federer. Not necessarily from an achievements point of view (although these weren’t exactly bad!) but from a class, respect, ability to adapt in later career and just pure genius point of view. An absolute pleasure to watch and a real shame to the...

What a great video! Thanks for sharing @d3nium For most of us, I imagine we have been in situations where we feel the other person is serving illegally. A lot of the issue I see is that people aren't confident enough to actually call them on the illegal serves. Perhaps they don't know the...

Am I the only one that thinks Tenergy 05 is possibly the worst choice for a returner to the sport? It's the least controllable of all the rubbers mentioned, and is very sensitive to spin. It's absolutely still a rubber that can (and does) compete at the very top of the Plastic ball era - I'd...

Ahhhh, the old GOAT conversation. I think there should be rules on this, like Gozo said..... But if you did that, you'd only ever get one answer that couldn't be debated. GOAT for me will never be about statistics alone. Federer will forever be my Tennis GOAT. Why not Djokovic? Who is the...

This is part of the problem - All these little comments which makes it seem like pro's are using magical unicorn based equipment that is so incredibly different from what us mere mortals can get..... It may be different.... But who knows how much. I think it's white, but WOW..... That man...

That's a really easy comment to make online with no supporting evidence though (which is my point). I think I struggle to really understand the methods behind it all - Unless there is some significant cost barrier (for the manufacturer), why not make the "best" rubbers available to all...