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A gentle mix of dense population, mysophobia and mass psychology, perhaps exacerbated by an actual viral epidemy?

Keep playing them. You’ll adapt. A common pitfall for many (including me) is in positioning. The usual patterns lead you to step away from the table to counterloop, for example, which will wreac havoc against messy players. Hug the table.

I'd say yes. One I know of is the Joola Rossi Emotion. Hinoki/Koto/Carbon/Ayous/Carbon/Koto/Hinoki. It's a friend of mine's main blade, and it has a lot of things to offer. There are others too, Adidas had quite a few and there are or have been quite a lot of blades with a relatively thin...

Great progress! You'll no doubt gain confidence as the stroke get engrained, and will execute it more and more relaxed. You're using your legs to power it, and I think the basics are there. One thing I think might be worth improving is the followup of (or recovery from) the stroke; you seem...

Actually, that's not quite what I had in mind… more like: Except maybe that I always see Dennis Hopper. Lipstick-smeared. Must be me. But that high-powered BH, it did fall into place after dreaming it through. Choppers and chopblockers got nothin' on my BH, and I'm merrily...

I'd say, "Dynamic Techniques".

Really? In that Calderano defeat he seemed simply outgunned. That must have been a shocking new experience.

Ah! Time to start saving for 2030.

Wow! Amazing marketing skills. :-)

Roundell, as far as I know, wasn't marketed as Tenergy's successor, intended to eclipse and obsolete it. Marketing a new flagship product does mean your current flagship isn't it anymore, and it won't regain its full glory in case the new flagship happens to go down. Hmm, "Butterfly Yamato"…

No, it's not safe. If it were to be an utter flop (of say, Roundell magnitude, or worse) not only does it flop, but Tenergy got tainted on the way there to boot.

It's commonly translated as "Tenazi" in tabletennis-reference.com reviews. There's good stuff there, if you can read through sometimes slightly derailed automatic translations.

Soft. The non-soft version is even faster/bouncier, I know.

Hmmm. I guess different people experience the same things differently. I get insane spin levels when playing with R7s; T05 level of spin, and plenty more than Rozena. But I find R7s much more volatile, springier, livelier, harder to control than Rozena. And I don't think it's anywhere near...

A lot spinnier. And also very fast, and quite a bit more lively than Rozena.

Yup! That must be Vega Pro, then. :-)

I think the answer to that question also answers "why doesn't everybody just use the same equipment?".

The marketing hyperboles aside, and regardless of the various rubbers' qualities, I'm wondering what game Butterfly is playing here. Up to T05H (I'd say), Tenergy 05 was the undisputed king of the hill. Untouchable, and no matter what others appeared on the scene, the main question would be...

Mmm. When I started playing Sriver was considered a fast rubber, and the Mark V I played with crazy fast; but these days it's quite slow in comparision to most. Rozena's fast, but not insanely fast; I find it to be quite controllably so, with no impediment to making full strokes, but your...

Google Translate pronounces it "tsee-om", when considering it Korean.