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Maybe you could still find some Tibhar Progress shoes? Pretty much same shoe and used to be cheap.

As for the OP, I think it would be pretty hard to tell if ZJK is using the same blade or a new one of the same type since you would have to be very close up to see any difference.

Wow, the interesting things about this for me were that (1) rubber asymmetry was more common than I would have suspected, so this suggests my entire premise for this thread was wrong, (2) how many people in German league used various ESN rubbers, more than I expected, and (3) what a large number...

The handle is slightly different in the new ones, as if they cut the wood in a different direction. I have not hit with new ones enough to know for sure if there is something systematically different with how they play. Bear in mind though, that soft is not the same as stiff, and different...

Probably :D

Indeed.

Let me add something else. Tamasu Corporation, who makes Butterfly stuff, is not a gigantic corporation along the lines of General Motors or BP or Pfizer. I don't know exactly how many employees they have, but it can't be that large, since the only thing they do is table tennis. They also...

Yep I shut down that thread over at MyTT. Now this imbecile's feelings are hurt. It is obvious that a clone is not attempting to be identical to, say, a Viscaria or a TB-ALC. For example, Doubleday makes an ALC-Winner blade with a handle that has design features that clearly imply that it...

Maybe. With that said, is it not also true that people are never as good at their second language as their first one, unless they learn both as children? Anyway, comparisons to language are never perfect since humans have an entire unique section of their brain devoted to nothing but language...

Nice video.

Perfectly legit good company.

You have good taste in players, although HZW is quite different from the others because of penhold, SP, etc. etc. One thing they all have, though, is good forehands to end points. Taking the three shakehands players, they tend not to win points outright with blocks, they are able to use a...

You have identified something quite specific which is a good thing. There are tons of multiball drills you can do to practice the transition from attack mode to a more defensive mode. It's pretty important to be able to do that. A lot of the time the problem comes when people get a little...

My favorite ones among several Viscaria that I have are a series H are series I, which would be from 2007 and 2008 I think. As best as I can tell, these ALC blades actually seem to get better over time.

I don't mean to criticize but I actually wasn't joking. You need to calm your nerves more than you need to overthink the next point or mentally replay the previous one. The advice I gave or some variant on it was meant very seriously. It will definitely improve your game play, since it is...

When are they going to release their new series of Pretentious VPS blades which will be perfectly matched with their new Gullible rubbers?

One thing I think is clear for me at least, if you use big grip changes between BH and FH, a round ST handle makes it a lot easier.

Sing a song to yourself. Or think about sex.

I find a big difference between round ST and square ST. I prefer the round ST. To me they are as different as with FL.

I do understand that argument. And it is clearly the argument that carried the day. Still, it seems like cheating to me, especially for an individual sport. If several of the world's top 20 are not allowed to play, it seems to me that it cheapens the value of an Olympic gold. (...