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What even are these names 🤣.... I got a friend who has a spare copy of 388d-1, so I will probably give it a try. And most probably it'll be 388c-2 on the other side.

It's not just the speed but the spin. The spin on a quality D05 or Hurricane stroke is unrivalled by other rubbers.

It takes a huge amount of training to get to Wang Hao or Felix Lebrun levels of RPB, and it involves an incredible amount of technique and practice to make it better than the shakehand BH in BH-BH rallies. Shakehand BH is way, way easier imo. Also more sidespin = less topspin and less Magnus...

I need some actual advice on rubber selection dude :(

Doing some research, I think maybe Dawei 388C-1 and and 388D-1 would do the job. Now I need to research more about sponge thickness lmao. Also I realised this opens up some extremely nasty strats with the inverted + long pips combo lol. This is the first time I've been so excited about TT.

Yes this is true, but still RPB has the problem of less range, less blade area, more wobbly grip which means worse defence and harder to be consistent. Also down the line is way harder with RPB than it is with shakehand especially the fade version. TPB can be a lot scarier than RPB due to its...

Lol that's quite illegal where I live...

I would strongly recommend putting long pips on the backhand side. Imo RPB is close to useless in the amateur space because the shakehand backhand is simply miles better with better leverage and stability, and getting into BH-BH topspin rallies is exactly what you don't want. When I see...

Im so pissed off with LP advantages that I'm planning to join the dark side too. So the plan is for my left hand to use penhold long pips while my right hand uses the full shakehand two wing inverted looping. This means that I enjoy the advantages of all sides. As far as I know, there are no...

I played with some other club players recently and absolutely destroyed them, surprisingly. I was so used to all kinds of disgusting crap from my penhold training partner that their serves and receives posed no threat to me once I figured them out. Basically wherever they served, they were...

Yes.... imo it's such an OP style that it's sometimes funny how ridiculous the balls that are possible lol... if I were to be a penholder I would choose this style 10/10 times. The most OP thing is that penhold can use one side for all balls, so the amount of variation that this setup allows...

Lol wait till you play the twiddling inverted/LP penholders...imo it's the most evil style in table tennis.... you'll never be more confused on how the ball is actually spinning.... Imo it is probably the most "cost effective" style in amateur table tennis - if you're not using it as a...

Out for a few days as multiball FH powerloops whole table against block is a bit too hard on the body lol. I have no idea how pros train the way they do, they must have bodies of steel! I think I need some better ways of winning fast topspin rallies. One potentially good attempt is to learn...

It's interesting how he can squeeze in such a big body rotation in such a small amount of time. Maybe Gucchy is returning the ball too weakly to his FH, or Yassun is just fast af. For me I never get nice balls like that, and if I adopt the full body rotation I will always get jammed, unless I'm...

I would seriously disagree with the open angle loop concept being "wrong". Everything in TT has its place. 1) one needs to learn how to walk before they can run. Without the spin neutralising contact (which is pretty much finger assisted pronation for FH and finger assisted supination fo BH...

I tried some Xiom Vega rubbers on my friends setup and was really unimpressed. This thing has like 30% less spin than my D05, not to mention even higher spin rubbers like D09c or boosted Hurricane. It felt quite easy to control though.

this is normal D09c feeling and why it is so good in the short game. You can easily drop it real short and remove all the balls momentum. But during loops it feels very alive when you use some real power on it. Mine dies on the rubber in like 3 bounces when new.

Wow we've got another boss of a fast learner here! This is excellent, keep it up!

I guess I was training with a penholder, they have no middle weakness to speak of... it's the wide FH that gets them all the time. Against shakehanders yes the middle area is a juicy target.

I learnt something obvious but not so new. It is far more effective to just pivot and go down the line to the opponent's deep FH for a direct winner. Also its a more natural FH angle. Let them prove that they can handle this loop before going back to their BH. Same when the opponents switch down...