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Wow. That is the one problem I never expected to read about someone having. It seems so odd to me it almost makes me suspect the net! (Half jokinh).

I offer for sale the fountain of youth. National version of course.

Who knows for sure?

The thread is 2 years old, and the OP has made only 6 posts in that entire time since he joined -- all of them were on the same day, the day he started this thread! That blade was either sold a very long time ago or the OP stopped visiting this forum, maybe never came back after the day he...

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I think you should try your Strad with rhyzm p both sides to start.

I dont think banning rubber heaters is their intention. Either is banning people from cleaning their rubber with wzter and a sponge. They do want fo ban boosting. But they have writen the rule in a way that does not descriminate and taken literally bans all three. So some umpire in Japan says...

Thank you Airoc for injecting some necessary reality. "I know it's real, I saw it on a Chinese website". If you believe this in the context of TT equipment authenticity I have some Nigerian email-backed securities I would like to sell you, they are a good investment. Opening price, $100,000.

Fabian, I used to think that (and I believe it was true for many years but has changed recently). I was surprised when somebody here corrected me on that point not too long ago. They were right and I was wrong. It turns out that the ITTF Technical Bulletin T4 from 2015 states this: B...

I guess all I am saying is that you can't really evaluate if your grip is "wrong" without taking some time to see how it affects your whole game. BUT, that evaluation time can be kind of frustrating if by thinking about it too much you end up having other issues.

I think this is the only sane decision but of course one so inclined could argue that this is only true if the playing hall is 40 degrees (some days it feels like that here in Houston), or maybe the place where ITTF authorizes racket coverings is 40 degrees.

This rule makes it illegal to clean your rubber by any method, even a damp cloth. With any of those procedures, you are using water (or a cleaner) to solubilize materials that have landed on your rubber surface (a chemical procedure) and you are using the mechanical force (a physical treatment)...

Search for what people use with any Btfly ALC blade and go with that. Which means a huge number of rubbers will pair with it well. Kind of depends on what you use now. The blade has some tendency to be head heavy compared to, say, a Viscaria.

OK, but if you make your grip better for the forehand flip, what are you giving up? Make no mistake about this, you are trading off something, including some stability in your stroke. As for flipping short heavy serves, that is a pretty low-reliability shot for people even a lot better than...

Something else about grips and trade-offs. You sacrifice a little bit of whip motion and therefore a little bit of spin for stability in the stroke. If you are loose and tighten just before the contact, you are adding some variability -- degrees of freedom. If you get it just right the will...

If you optimize your grip for one thing, something else will suffer. So you have to make some choices, including how much to change your grip from side to side, because that entails some tradeoffs too. Different players find different solutions to this, including a good handle shape for what...

NL is right, as is Brett. Kong Linghui and Zhang Jike have grips noticeably different from Ma Long. Wang Liqin held his blade very far down the paddle, unusually so (so did Cheng Yihua for people in US who remember him). Jorgen Persson wraps his index finger around the wing (so does...

I find it amazing when peopke go straight in with booster without trying it without it first.

Is is a bit paradoxical but if you live in a highly humid environment you can use a dryer set on low to speed things up a bit BUT -- and this is important -- if you use a fan or hair dryer be careful to not use a glue that dries too quickly (e.g. Tearmender) because then you will also get uneven...

People specifying a recommendation should mention what thickness they are using or it is comparing apples to oranges. In max thickness, M2 would still be a bit too fast. If you are using Tenergy in max, why not go to 1.9?