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Also if you remove it from a blade It shrinks. You need to boost it to get it to fit again if you want to reattach it.

SP will not make you more consistent on your BH. That is a myth. They will probably help cover some deficiencies on return of serve. Well, some serves, and a lot of the ones you would see at that level. As for the rest, the ball flies straighter than with inverted, and so on some shots your...

Yes. My patience is also getting strained.

Yes, this is all true. I think there are more tricks to sponge than just density, but in general this makes sense to me. It still amazes me what big differences in playing properties you can get from the pip geometry and layout within the Tenergy series.

I played SP on BH for quite a few years. A good player saw me play and said that I really needed to switch back to inverted. So I did. I would say my level is close to the same either way oddly enough, once I am fully settled in. As the previous commenter said, you HAVE to stay close in or...

The guy has definitely built some blades people seem to like. He is willing to do what seem to me to be some pretty unconventional things with wood, also. He was insightful enough to start marketing seamless balls early on (even though he doesn't make those himself, and he made some fairly...

Of course, outside of the table tennis skill level stuff, there is some of the chemistry and engineering part. I read the Nexy posts about rubber history at the time with interest, and the history was interesting, but honestly was not convinced by all of it. I trust his expertise more on...

No systematic difference. I have owned several of each. Small sample size causes people to conclude all sorts of things, more so about blades that are more or less the same thing.. People expect that there to be differences. They tend to confirm that bias. Not all of the Viscarias i have had...

And sometimes it is rather inexplicable. It is odd that ZJK does not want to use even a ZJK-ALC. Pretty much all they need to do is dye the wood on the handle a gray color.

The answers you need were already given. Try someone's blade and see if you like it. Arylate and Aramid are similar. Donic True Carbon plays like Btfly and is cheaper. Composite layers that are quite deep play differently than when they are relatively close to them surface.

OK, that's what I thought. I'm sure you do know what you are talking about. However, from the links you posted, describing embedding in plastic, and the way that you were responding to where I explained to Doraemon that the fiber weave was embedded in glue, it made it seem different is all...

I did a little more research this time focusing on the term Liquid Crystal Polymer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_polymer You can see that both Vectran and Kevlar fit into this category (and it explains how they can absorb vibration, by going into meso-liquid phase) but you can...

He is basically saying the composite layer is embedded in glue. And strength and mechanical properties of these materials are usually measured in single fibers as if you were pulling on the ends of a string. But the ball actually strikes the fibers on the side, not on the ends, and properties...

One last thing I should mention. Vectran manufacturer frequently mentions its vibration absorbing property on their web pages.

Actually, I think k they are not the same but share many properties. Arylate is the name Btfly uses for Vectran fiber. It is similar but not identical to aramid fibers like Kevlar. Found this decription of different fibers on a site for sailmakers. Very useful site with links to...

Yes, I suspect the way each ply is glued makes a difference. But then there is weight, the way the handle is shaped, the way the wings are shaped, many things like that. Also, do they do something to the outer ply, like UV light, to change its hardness? At the end of the day, the only way to...

My current coach (Timothy Wang) told me that at Rio in doubles he had trouble bringing back his serves, said the top/side serves were insanely spinny and disguised and took this weird jump. He had never seen anything like it.

802-40 is definitely easier to learn to use coming from inverted (Raystorm is even easier), but it will slow your acquisition of optimal short pips technique (because you can get away with sort of a hybrid stroke with a lot of inverted characteristics). So as soon as you can (once you feel...

Joo Se Hyuk is bad for the sport? Liu Guoliang was bad for the sport? Ai Fukuhara is bad for the sport?

As Carl said, I don't know for sure, but my guess is that if the carbon is quite far on the inside, like in an Innerforce, it matters quite a bit. I've never played with an Innerforce but pretty much everyone who has played with both blades says it is quite different from more typical Btfly ALC...