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This is my position. I don't like the hidden serve rules since I think it solved a non-existent problem. But even with that, the server has the entire initiative. This is always true in racket sports. The returner should at least have the right to be ready for whatever happens. I am sure...

Let's not make things more complicated than they are.

Nexy is a seamless ball. It is excellent, as are XSF, Xiom, Yinhe, etc. Tibhar now sells a seamless ball also, which they market as the 40+ SL (sold by TT11). They all come from the same factory.

Actually if I had read more carefully I would have figured out what TT11 meant by context.

Carl, You might be right actually. Upon re-reading several times, now I can't quite tell what the TT11 person is saying. For sure NP40+ is better than any other plastic ball with a seam in it. So if that is what he is saying, than I totally agree. If he is saying that NP40+ is better than all...

Personally I didn't find Calibra LT to throw very high (certainly not like T05), although I think the stuff is pretty good rubber all in all. (Responding I think to something posted quite a ways back in the thread).

I agree with NL on last post also. He makes not just one but two very important points. One top player once told me you sometimes have to be patient on service return for the ball to "reveal itself" and then you can know what to do. It took me a long time to figure out what he meant. Also...

All levels??????? Be careful what you read. The seamless balls are better than Nittaku Premium on the following three levels: (1) durability, (2) price, and (3) availability. At the moment there is no doubt about these facts. I may not be selling these balls, but I have played with each of...

Seems like the best explanation I have ever read. Thanks for posting.

Lots of good advice. I especially want to echo NL, since by learning to be tricky you sort of learn what to watch for. Here is the bright side of the situation. You are actually lucky to have someone with very tricky serves so you can learn to return by watching trajectory, racket-ball...

Crazy expensive, and I paid even more because most of mine have come from TT-japan, iruiru, and TTNPP. I have the impression that Nittaku is solving their supply problems because Paddlepalace is having them in stock more frequently. Of course they will sell out within hours.

We also don't know if they will suck or not. However I am very hopeful because whatever one thinks of Btfly pricing/marketing policies, as a company they have always known how to make a good product. I trust that they know that the balls they are getting from DF now suck, which is why they have...

lycaon, yes, I agree. I am almost 100% sure that Nittaku SHA is a re-labled DHS, and in my experience they are among the worst you can buy.

I think you need to make a decision based on a sample of more than one ball. :confused: Here is what I know. Seamless balls are the most durable (averaged over time), cheapest, have the highest bounce, and are relatively easy to transition to from celluloid. I recommend these the most for...

Jag bodde i Sverige från 1969 till 1971. Det är där jag lärde mig att spela pingis. Den gamla Stiga därefter är fortfarande bra.

Help!!! A horrible heffalump! A heffible horrilump!

How can anyone look at this and say the sport needs to be "fixed"? Amazing. Nice compilation.

Hugo, how much time out of the year do you spend in Brazil and how much time in other countries to train?

I mostly agree with Matt and posted the same thing earlier about wondering why Mattenet kept fishing when maybe a few time he could have gotten out of that jam with something more aggressive.. One place is about 53 seconds into the video. Even more so, given how good Mattenet's backhand is...

I actually think this site has some of the best behaved members (bearing in mind that I moderate at a different site so I see a lot). If you have an internet site someone will troll it. And the same trolls tend to pop up on every site (until they are banned everywhere, and then sometimes they...