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Yonex is actually better known for badminton.

It might suit the way I play. But this change would drastically reduce the effectiveness of modern defenders, SP players, and it would further homogenize the game. Another bad idea from ITTF. Stop dumbing down our sport.

I appreciate the contrary opinion and the arguments made to support it and it's certainly not crazy, but I still suspect there is a liability to the rubber asymmetry. For one thing, what you are doing with your hands is a lot different than simply wearing shoes. I certainly get that Chinese...

Soulspin in Germany offers every blade they make in three different head sizes and an almost unlimited range of handle shapes and materials. They are the only ones I know who do that.

The unspoken assumption behind this comment seems to be that rubber asymmetry should be the default configuration and yet nearly every elite shakehand offensive player from Europe or Japan uses the same inverted rubber on both sides. There must be some reason that guys whose livelihood depends...

How do you know?

No, by definition that's not EJing. BUT, I have still come to question the wisdom of it. Question of course does not mean I have a definitive answer.

It is also possible that instead of writing "processing more slowly" I should have written "processing incorrectly". So Shuki, if you are willing, maybe you can try the experiment for two weeks. Use the same rubber on both sides. T05 is a good choice. It may be uncomfortable at first. But...

I guess I am challenging the idea that people should naturally choose a different rubber for FH and BH because the shots are different-- and that this is the normal state of affairs "As the Table Tennis Gods Intended It!!" (both the old gods and the new). I certainly accepted it for a long...

I got mine from a friend whose sister was sleeping with the manager of Xu Xin, so I know mine are real.

I have some National socks for sale. $400.

I personally don't think Tenergy is significantly boosted. Maybe I am wrong.

I am curious what made you think they had boosted it? The two sheets I opened last night with the brand new packaging ordered from Megaspin had no booster smell, laid flat on my table, and are nothing at all like the obviously factory-boosted Evolution rubbers.

Because the Chinese themselves view table tennis as a low-prestige sport globally compared to the things they want to be good it, mainly football and basketball. They also are aware that they can cut back a great deal on their current enormous investment in table tennis and still dominate...

Watch Schlager carefully. His footwork was not bad, far to the contrary it was (and is) amazing. He had some of the most efficient footwork in the history of the game, and these days he tries to teach it. I think you are right that it is remarkable that he was able to be so good coming from...

Definitely my theory might be flawed and brain might easily and rapidly compute the different surfaces given the familiarity. Not that long ago that is exactly what I would have said and I would not have even questioned it. But now I do question it, very much so. I know full well that I am...

This is something I have been thinking about for awhile. There is a very pervasive EJ assumption that you see on table tennis forums that it is always better to use a different rubber on BH than on FH, even for players who try to play a fairly standard two winged offensive game. I bought...

I think that there is something different about the way the different Butterfly ALC blades are glued together and also whether they do some treatment on the top ply of the blade, so I am not sure it is just ply composition that matters. I also think that it depends a great deal on what year the...

In reality it is probably higher than 6% since only a very small subset of CNT players get to ever play outside of their country and garner world rankings, but the ones you don't see are still awesome players. But absolutely correct in the larger point. In China they produce a ridiculously...

I am thinking Next Level might object to my last post based on something he posted awhile back. If I am remembering correctly (not a sure thing) he mentioned that he actually accomplished a pretty big change in technique which is how he went from 1400 to over 2000 in a few years. If I am...