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People carrying on a conversation across the court I'm playing on. For example, two guys on courts 1 and 3 are discussing something loudly while I am playing a match on court 2). Spectators at tour naments who take pictures using flash.

Vitamin C increases cross-linking of collagen fibers. So it might help. It certainly won't hurt. Be careful about orange juice though. Lots of sugars and calories.

The thing about degenerative tendonopathies is that there is often surprisingly little inflammation! Pathology studies show absence or few of the kinds of cells infiltrating the diseased tendon that you would expect for a classic inflammation response. That is why steroid injections don't...

By the eay, people who played through it had to have made some change in the way they played even if they were unaware of it. A stressed tendon will not recover unless the repeated stress causing the degenerative change stops. Obviously resting will help. Some people - not everybody! - will make...

I teach at a medical school and have kept up to date on tendon issues because I have experienced them at some points. The stretches might help, they won't hurt if you are reasonable. The literature says, though, that it doesn't work for everybody. And steroid injections have in some patients...

There sure is a lot of heaping generalization going on in this comment.

Sorry but yes, you are wrong. You still need good technique. It may not be exactly the same technique that you need for Chinese rubber. But it still needs to be good if you want a good result. You still need weight transfer. You still need to hit the right part of the ball with good...

I would not buy into anything like that based on a tabletennista article! That whole thing was a clickbait operation with the kind of journalistic ethics you would see if scorpions ran newspapers. You make something like that up, people will click. (Maybe not enough clicks though, since...

OK, I kind of anticipated the answers I would get. The reason I asked the question of "why" is one coach many years ago weaned me off of quite soft rubbers in general, suggesting that it was a bit of a crutch that would actually hinder development over the long term. He gave me this advice...

I still come back to this sentence from the OP. "I'm also wondering whether a soft rubber would help my BH development." Why do you wonder this? I know a lot of people think this way based on stuff I see on forums, but I am just curious where the idea comes from, or at least the basis for it.

It sounds like you are happy with your setup. Why change? IMHO there is no reason to think that going softer will help the development of your BH. What you use now seems fine. Weight should be ok too.

I recently sold one in condition more or less like this and of the same ~ age for $100. Mine was a little more dinged around the edges but the handle was in better shape. This could mean that NL will have a useful new method to pick up chicks.

Short answer to OP question. Yes. You can buy a Viscaria from either one and it will be fine and exactly what you would get from Butterfly NA. I have bought Viscarias from all three. The advantage of a brick store someplace might be that you could hold several and tap them against your...

The Stradivarius is not super fast. You could put Vega in it and you should be ok.

Horrible bad awful. I like the 3-star seamless but the 1-stars are only useful for multiball training for 6 year olds. I used some Butterfly 40+ training balls yesterday from the same factory as G40+ and they were pretty good. Not sure of their price though.

Play through it even though you don't like it now. In time you will prefer it that way.

Should be the other way. No coaching at all.

ITTF does not approve blades. They do approve rubbers (and balls, of course). As the previous commenter indicated, you can find out is something is approved by checking the List of Approved Racket Coverings (LARC). Rubbers are approved for a period of time. After that, the company...

I have found that ST handles make really fast transitions between forehand and backhand easier than FL. That's just my experience (and something I discovered after playing for decades with FL handles). I prefer round ST handles to Square ST handles. If the handle has distinct edges, I prefer...

Actually there are some other tricks. Somebody mentioned a very light coat of sealer. You can buy them at TT stores. What works for me just as well as old-fashioned hair spray, the very strong hold kind. Spray it on the blade and let it dry (should dry quick or you can use a hair dryer)...