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If somebody's interested in that balls (and perhaps willing to pay for delivery), I'll start massaging people toward acceptance and ship them over. If so, PM me.

Yes, it is. We did a makeover a few months ago, though, and they're all stashed away in a storage room now. Give it some time and I believe the members will be coming to terms with their disappearance. :)

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This is described in ITTF's Laws of Table Tennis. The following is the relevant bit pertaining to the service. Note that there's nothing about the racket, but you can infer where it needs to be when hitting the ball: above table surface level, behind the end line. With nothing obscuring the...

A very introvert man.

Mmmm. Rozena might fit that bill.

No. That’s not a process I’ll embrace. We only have one earth. Or something. I buy these balls in gross, and have to rely on them. I can’t run after every single item stocked, perform QA tests at scale and keep track of logistics. Reliability is an important aspect of quality. And when it...

Could it be humidity?

I’ve had batches of the D40+ Ding Ning balls that were unplayable duds. The XCAG production run was very good, the XHAG run abysmal. After first noticing this, I checked all my boxes; a simple bounce test was enough. After a few dozen balls I even felt the bad ones immediately opin pickup. Not...

Rozena’s pretty good, but quite a step up from Sriver, and even more so from Sriver FX. You may or might not get away with it. If you do you’ll have lots of fun with it. The Mantras are very giod also, but even faster than Rozena. Vega Intro may be more suitable to your needs.

White ash is already quite a bit harder than Koto, harder even than walnut, and Wenge is quite a bit harder, even? Does that help you change your game away from more or less exclusive spin-orientation?

I do admit to lucid table tennis dreams, every now and then. They don't necessarily involve glorious victories, but I do often have epiphanies about a single technique. I do remember dreaming of high-powered BH loop kills, including full detail of leg, hip and torso movement. Funny. So I...

I think it's a limba/limba/ayous/limba/limba, but am not sure. My first serious blade was the the Kjell Johansson Offensive Wood from the same generation, and that had, I think, a walnut/limba/ayous/limba/walnut composition. A great blade, of which the tiny sweet spot really made you hit the...

What is this “sun” of which you write?

That’s a classic Stiga Allround blade, and I think it’s the Kjell Johansson model, looking at the handle. Good blade, would be considered slowish these days. Unrivalled handle.

I'm actually still grumpy about these rubber colour rules. Playing with a symmetrical blade (now) and the same rubbers, I actually would like them to be identical, so that I wouldn't even have to pay attention to the blade sides during gameplay. Rubber colour is just one more distraction I do...

You are right there. Matches are won at the table. And I nominate Mima Ito's BH (especially in service reception) for inclusion in that list of today's greats.

Hm, come to think of it nobody mentioned Dima Ovtcharov yet. He's up there somewhere, though.

Good and concise lists already. I should admit, Calderano and Pitchford sprung to mind immediately, but at some point last year I was severely impressed by the BH's of both Yoshimura brothers.

I "grew up" on a frame with (I think) Walnut outers, the vintage Stiga Offensive Wood. When I returned to the game, I got me a Stiga Offensive Classic - which has Limba outers. It didn't work for me. I've tried a number of Limba blades, and all of them felt muffled and numb to me. I've since...