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In my experience, how far from the surface the ALC layer is matters quite a bit in these kinds of composite blades. And the ALC in this Yinhe blade, as you said, is actually under two layers (as I noticed in my last post and in the second picture I posted). You just mentioned that it is also a...

These DVDs are amazing. Number 6 made our jaw drop!

OK, but did you become a professional player in 52 weeks? (Since the comments here are mostly about those kind of absurd claims in the DVD marketing than the DVDs).

So then the D-K 4 would not be much like a Viscaria either. Instead it would be more like an Iolite (a discontinued Butterfly ALC blade that was originally introduced at about the same time as Viscaria). The Iolite was thicker, stiffer, and faster and had a smaller head size (if I remember...

From the pictures of the Pro Feeling, the outer ply is quite a bit thicker than a Viscaria or some of its more obvious mimics like True Carbon. I am only going by photos but they show a pretty good view from the side. It almost looks intermediate betwwen a Viscaria/TB-ALC and an Innerforce. I...

I am actually playing really well with Karis. But from the description I could easily imagine that I would like this rubber.

At least he doesn't say "you're going to win so much you'll get tired of winning"

Really? And just how do you see that?

It definitely hurts the sport that there has not been any challenge to Chinese dominance. It tends to coincide with the change in ball size, although that may not be the reason why.

Last time I was there (2016), I saw ZJKs picture all over the place. He is popular, that is for sure. In WLQ's prime he was also an iconic figure in China, was used a lot in ads, and he dated famous movie stars and so was often found in the Chinese equivalent of gossip pages. Also, the...

The outer ply on a Pro Feeling looks much thicker than a Viscaria. Yogi, at MyTT you had earlier described it as being more like an Innerforce, which makes sense from its construction. That would not be particularly Viscaria-like. (I have not played with it, so have no knowledge, but I know...

Sure seems that way to me. It is amazingly rare that I have seen coaches take into account the build or intrinsic capabilities of their students, even kids. Think about this: some kids are taller and will end up more like Xu Xin or Samsonov, and some kids even when younger are shorter...

Could be but I would be quite surprised if they are that sophisticated in how they go about training kids though. From what I can see (from Chinese coaches here), it is initially a local coach telling a kid "do it this way". Later in China if the kid turns out to be good enough they might be...

Check out 1:50-1:53 of this video to see Ariel Hsing's "forehand fixing machine"

Sure some, but I suspect early coaching also matters a lot more for something like this.

I liked that post a lot also. Each of those tbings is a different move ent that you kind of have to learn seperately.

Yeah, he seems like a bit of an EJ. But I think he is not typical.

If your arms are outstretched when you loop, your body will rotate slower. Hence, loopers like XX and ML play a bit of a distance away from the table to buy themselves the time to recover and repeat. Technically speaking, If XX or ML were to apply the same force to a stroke but contract the...

The three former US team members I know at my club are incredibly conservative and resistant to ever even trying anything new. The only thing caused them to change is when they had finally realized that the last of their favorite blades, which have been out of production for a really long time...

I think we are approaching the point where differences in tables outweigh differences in balls. Maybe we are not quite there yet, but getting close. (Assuming that the celllulose acetate balls pretty much disappear, and why would they persist since they are bad, fragile, and costly?)