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That's exactly the rubber I plan to try next. Looking for that euro like sponge on a sticky topsheet. I've hit with this rubber a little and I like it.

Want to improve your service receive? Find some of the better servers at your club and ask them to serve to you or challenge them to matches if they don't want to do that type of practice. IMO, while you can pick up tips from pro's here & there, their style of game is so radically different...

It's still light-years away from 1500 something. In either case, the game count will be 3-0 for the foreseeable future. To the OP... And yeah. If he's playing SP, that's a huge, huge difference from LP. Completely changes how you plan or attack vs him. Before you play someone, you should...

Okay now that that's out of the way, don't feel disappointed if the rating gap is that great. He should win 3-0 essentially every time. Make smaller goals. Try to get a game off him. See if you can eventually make it consistent to where you normally nab a game. Happiness is the result of...

Just out of curiosity, If this guy is LP player is USATT 2359, what's your rating? Or if you don't have one, what would you estimate it to be? Without a video of your match to analyze your mistakes, we can't help you much. For starters, I'd start recording your matches. That'll help a lot. But...

Yep I'm Steve. The Lefty penholder. Certainly Daniel was getting me with light spin serves. His motion looked like backspin but based on the reaction and how I'd often pop them up, they weren't that spinny. I could have attacked those more. Need better service receive practice. Yeah I'd...

That's what you have to do. Have to punish easy balls. Either twiddle & hit or run around and hit it with your FH. Otherwise, this happens to you.... See how Cory serves Oliver the majority of this match.

Congrats to Xue Fei. It'll be fun watching him for years. Better to be early on this than late but this kid has just as good of an RPB as Wang Hao. I never thought I'd see that again. Better? I don't know. I mean that's hard to say. But who cares if it's better or not. IMO it's right there as...

Thought I'd pass this along in case you missed the news. :p :p :p https://www.ittf.com/2017/12/03/mission-completed-full-house-xue-fei-clean-sweep-china/

How'd this thread get this much traction? Oh well. Continue.

:) at there's a coach named Tao Wenzhang. Man you're lucky... Yes I'm quite familiar with him. Your coach is basically the best penholder in the US as far as I know. Either him or Yujin. That's like saying "we have this coach named Ma Long who coaches at our club" :p (just kidding) maybe not to...

So on the topic of developing a more agressive TPB from my post above inspired by Cazuo's TPB. I got on the robot last night and had pretty good success with it. Here's my thoughts. It's more powerful, but not engrained in my muscle memory yet. So if someone blasts a shot at me and I just want...

Yeah it's sad there's a coach, and I'm sure there are many, who make people switch. I think sometimes they forget it's a game and people should be able to do what they want to do. Speaking of coaching, I don't think a coach who doesn't play penhold should be coaching someone to play penhold...

Unfortunately, MXP is my first long running entry into the euro market so I can't help you compared to the others. I suppose I did try Tenergy 80 years ago but can't remember much about it. I only tried the H3-50 for about 10 minutes on my FH. I've played with almost every cheap Chineese tacky...

No worries. I didn't know much about H3-50 until it explained to me... No he doesn't boost. So check this link for example http://www.paddlepalace.com/Rubber/products/1/0/33 You will see there are several versions of H3-50. It's simply that great topsheet on different sponges. He got the Soft...

And lastly here he is in the same match taking a similar receive but this time spinning the TPB the other direction. Flicking & spinning the other way (with this spin this time) down the line. This motion is different and not as snappy or fast but it's a change up that keeps em guessing...

So there are some good matches uploaded recently of Cazuo Matusmoto a Brazilian left Jpener who I like to watch considering I favor the TPB over the RPB. Perhaps he has always done this but I noticed he has used a TPB flick a fair amount. This is some high level stuff. If anybody regularly uses...

I don't think so. I mean Wang Hao, the gold standard of RPB, had a very good FH. Maybe it's just something with Xue Fei in that his FH is only as powerful as it'll be. Could just be a him thing. Kinda like how a weak BH is a Xu Xin thing. But I agree with you. Xue Fei's BH I think is very close...

I have a buddy at club who has Hurricane 3-50 in the soft version and I really like that. I currently use MXP and love the sponge but miss or am not as fond of the topsheet. After hitting with that 3-50, I definitely could go that route. Softer, more springy sponge on that crazy tacky...

So I've played this style a number of years. Here's my thoughts on it. Just like anything, there's pluses & minuses. Some players will struggle with it... Mostly newer players. And most experienced players don't have a problem with it but you'll occasionally find one who it slows down some...