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For a blade, I would recommend an all-wood 5-ply OFF- blade like the Butterfly Petr Korbel or Stiga Azalea OFF.

Haha, I thought the same thing! Use to have a similar profile pic as is, great show and books!

My mantra before a match is to go to war but to stay calm and concentrated, not get excited, and breathe out especially after every point to keep the pressure down and reset.

The Yasaka Sweden Classic is a great blade for a developing player so definitely stick to it! The other 2 were too fast. I'd recommend Vega Intro as it is a modern rubber with tension effect, it is quite grippy for good spin, yet is more controllable than Mark V so it'll help you with serves...

Many penholders, especially Japanese, Korean, European etc. use euro rubbers on both wings. They're also lighter and easier to swing. Your weaknesses can only be tackled by practicing often and with focus, but a change in equipment might make it easier to adapt and improve. I suggest you find a...

The Stiga Azalea is very good. You could either get the ALL (more control) or OFF (more speed) version. For rubbers, I'd recommend Xiom Vega Europe in 2.0mm on both sides. You can purchase this combo at a discount from tabletennis11.com who will put it together for you.

Victas ZX-Gear Out Yinhe Galaxy Pro Feeling Yasaka Ma Lin Soft Carbon Butterfly Innerforce ALC Stiga Carbonado 145

Maybe European/Japanese-style rubbers would make it easier for you to develop. Xiom Vega Intro or Vega Europe for exemple. You can find them for not too much on TT11. Also, I hate to say this because I love penhold but RPB is really hard to pick up so if you feel you're not developing fast...

I'd probably stick to all-wood blades that are a bit faster than the YSE at this point like the ones you, Carl and I listed. One composite blade that's not carbon which gave me a great wood feeling with good control and feel and is a step up in speed is the Butterfly Timo Boll CAF. Another is...

I second many of yoass' recommendations: All-wood (safer choice): Butterfly Korbel, Hadraw VK, Stiga Azalea OFF, OSP Virtuoso. Softer carbon (step up from all-wood): Butterfly Innerforce ALC, Nittaku Acoustic Carbon Inner, Joola Rossi Emotion, Victas ZX-Gear In, Andro Treiber CI. If you pick...

Hi again ttdad, congratulations on your son's progress! I think you're on the right track in choosing his next blade and sticking to his current rubbers. I back up and highly recommend all the blades you've mentioned, Stiga Azalea OFF and TSP Swat (regular) and will also add OSP Virtuoso and...

Oh man, that was terrible just watching this kid torture this blade. The faded blade looks great, the "make up" version looks like a shiny horrible mess. A handle that's been worked in by your hand feels so great, really feels like your hand and the wood became one. The thought of holding...

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All black tags are sought after and most are valuable, especially the classics like Primorac, Korbel, Gergely, Sardius, Viscaria, Timo Boll Spirit... I got a black tag Korbel in excellent condition recently, very happy I got my hand on one.

True when compared with Chinese rubbers which are 41+ degrees on their scale which is like 51+ degrees on the European scale but with much harder topsheets, and the thin topsheet does help a bit on the new generation ESN rubbers, but they're still meant to be different rubbers that work very...

"You will be surprised how soft 53 degrees can feel like"

And the hardness race continues: https://www.andro.de/products/rubbers/rasanter-r53-en-gb/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vAfeVxAmcM And the prices keep on rising... 60€

Yea, the Korbel packs quite a punch, the Primorac not so much, that's almost why I call the Primorac an ALL+ when the Korbel is a true OFF-.

Ah, I didn't even pay attention! The blade is definitely more in the OFF- (some say even ALL+) range.

There's a shop that sells them in Paris but he's not allowed to ship outside the Paris-area. You could contact Butterfly England and see if they can get one for you.