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Playing TT again is the best thing you could possibly do!

I have to be in Cologne on the 6th and I am returning to Houston on the 8th. At least one other day in there I have to meet some colleagues in Essen. I will only be at the tournament on June 1 and June 2 (only days I could get tickets for what was kind of a late spur of the moment decision --...

I am pretty excited about this now. I am thinking about the swag I am going to buy and the German beer I will drink (I particular love Koelsch) and maybe I will even hit a few balls.

Some people say the balls don't spin and some people say they are too hard, but the one thing just about everybody agrees about with respect to the DHS D40+ *** ball is that it is incredibly durable and virtually indestructible. This is a repeated theme on the very long MyTT thread about these...

This last statement is contradicted by every other report from many people who have used d40+. You must have ordered the wrong dhs balls.

Suga, I will have a car and have a couple of days with no agenda. Easy for me to come to Frankfurt/Mainz.

Weikert has said that Sharara supports Saive. It certainly indicates that Sharara and Weikert have a bad relationship now, but there were already other indications of that. The canceling of agrrements with TMS is the main one. I don''t think we can know easily if Weikert supported Sharara...

I am going. But not on the weekend. I will watch two days around the beginning, which is when I could get tickets. I have a couple days of work stuff to do in Cologne. Then a few more free days. I will have a car. Not decided yet where else I will go.

Incredible collection!

Is this a testament of the almost unbelievable depth of the CNT or does it reflect the tension the core CNT players are feeling after ATTC, or possibly over-training?

Thanks for posting that. I had not seen it before. From that interview alone it is already clear that Weikert is a vast improvement. So once he has actually been elected (remember this is the first time he is actually standing for election) he may feel more empowered and hopefully his judgment...

While at the same time ignoring the spectator based on the quality of video they have provided for some of the important ITTF events. And maintaining one of the worst websites I have ever seen for a major sports organization. Of course outright lying about the reason some changes are needed...

Yes, guys like Dean and Magic_M at MyTT know everything there is to know about every Viscaria series.

I get the point that just because Saive was a great pro and a good person does not mean he has the skill set needed to run ITTF. It also doesn't mean he doesn't. But on the other hand, the biggest critiques of ITTF are (a) they have had a tendency to ignore concerns and advice of players...

I honestly don't know. I am inclined to think whatever changes they made were really minor. The really old ones that I have played with -- without serial numbers -- I have not liked all that much (but a small sample size of maybe 2 blades). Collectors out there tend to know these things more...

My hope is that some of what has happened in the last couple of weeks means that Weikert knows he will win. So he now feels empowered to cleanse the ITTF of the vestiges of Sharara and his cronies. And having done that maybe finally will have the ability to modernize the ITTF and actually...

Forgive me for not being impressed by the extreme use of this FIFA-pioneered strategy whereby the presidents of sports federations are able to stay on forever. Seriously, was signing up Guinea-Bisseau this really the best use of ITTF resources? This has been discussed elsewhere, no reason to...

I have had bad old ones and good old ones. My favorite is old. Serial number H. It is fishscale but as Suga said, I'm not sure that is why it is good. I just don't know. They are bad when tney are too light. Otherwise it is just luck of tne draw. I have hit with a couple new hologram ones...

It is possible that by firing the non-elected ITTF CEO (reportedly one of Sharara's friends/cronies) and ending the marketing agreement with TMS, Weikert is signalling to to people who may be hesitating to vote for him that the Sharara days are now over. Perhaps in response to this, the third...

I checked. It is first generation.