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New Butterfly rubber "Dignics 05" 2019 94-95g uncut? That makes it much heavier than T05, usually about 72g uncut at 2.1mm, right?

I guess that would disqualify him as a serious athlete, then? How is this (or Bernadettes — such a screamer! best not mention Dima or Tomo here — imagined performance in the sack) relevant to anyone (others than those these players might form affectionate relations with in their private...

Ah. It is a totally non-toxic thread depicted by Barbie lookalikes bending over the table while demurely clad in thongs, and filmed pretty much like Downtown Julie Brown used to do, employing camerapeople blessed by dwarfism to create the desided upskirting perspective. Yes, very respectful and...

First competition match. Won two out of three, one against a player hitting with something age had turned anti using wildly unpredictable placement and pace. After seeing the first set go down in flames I adapted well and took the next three authoritatively. Lost my latest match, with at that...

Hat off for Dima. I'd not have begrudged a Samsonov victory, though. Quite the contrary.

Apparently a SP thing, diffuculties agains choppers.

No, not saying that. Lots of truly impressive FHs in Europe. But it was when seeing Dragutin Šurbek play that I just could not believe what I saw. Pretty much like it was surreal to see Desmond Douglas blocking his roaring spins. He wasn’t called The Lion for nothing. And yes, that’s my...

Šurbek.

Ah well. I guess it’s just me that wonders why we as a community insist on creating a toxic athmosphere. Yes, some bodies are more attractive to some than some other bodies, subjectively. Big deal. It has little to do with skill and smarts. And we’re all singling out a specific part of our...

I don’ speak polish, but I think he told her to not to block, but spin the ball over the table instead.

Wow. I saw him play when I was young, admired him greatly (still do) and to my mind he was 20 years my senior. Not so! He would have been 75 now if that were true.

That would be an anomaly. Could maybe happen on a peak Khanak day that also happens to be an off-form day for Hugo.

I'm amazed in both ways. I have an old setup with Sriver L, glued on mid '80s. It still plays reasonably well; is still grippy and elastic. I played a club member last week who was struggling, and as I saw everything just dropping dead off his FH I had a look. That rubber, a Sriver L a mere...

I train it by focusing on timing the contact, and then gently lifting (instead of pushing) the ball. Once you get the hang of that, add explosiveness to put a bit more pace (and a bit of spin) on the ball. That's what worked for me to get it going. I was trained to do that type of flick on...

I’m no star in it, but have a reasonably solid fh flick. I think the main thing is stepping in and i think the relatively small flick-o-the-wrist is propelled from there, using a little hip-powered forearm whip with an explosive wrist snap. They don’t all need to be kill flicks. When I...

It's amazing to see Ni Xialian still up there. A unique player, and a long-time nemesis for multiple TT generations On the other side of the arbitrary gender gap — GO VLADI! That being said, good to see where Pitch and Kristian K stand these days. And will the French squad manifest itself...

Not much wrong with that Tibhar blade. Or is it? If so, what?

No, I'm not. My father was. I'm a simple philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist and network security specialist - but first and foremost I'm curious and tend to read up on things that pique my interest. At one time in the not so distant past my curiosity was tickled by something I...

That is a well known phenomenon, known as the Dunning–Kruger effect, "a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability...

Why remove the glue? I reglue regularly for players at my club. I do remove glue from the blades, but leave the rubbers alone. In fact, it often is sticky enough to need a thin layer on the blade only to get a good bond, and if not a very thin layer suffices to soften up the existing layer(s)...