Search results

But to go that way one needs to acquire the taste for Balsa. I don’t think it fits all playing styles, heavily slanting towards direct/flat hits over deep spinbased play. One size does not fit all.

Need. To. Learn. Like Can Akkuzu showed Dan.

That teqbox (http://tengoteq.ca/teqbox) looks interesting. One could conceive it to be adapted for table tennis, awesome way to register/evaluate matches...

It's exactly the same for me. But I really do need to keep moving.

Concluded the season by taking part in a closeout tournament, played for the cup. We won that cup last year. Made it to the finals once again, quite convincingly. Lost two matches in the qualification and knockout rounds, after achieving a 100% win rate in the competition - but then lost that...

I'm just about 6ft, and yes, length does emphasize strong footwork — while also working a bit against developing it, due to the temptations of long(ish) reach.

Thank you, very interesting. I've been an avid Nanoflex FT48 player for quite while now. At sponge hardness 48 I wouldn't call it that soft, but from the review I get that the Neoflexx eFT48 is lighter, and somehow feels soft. Would the similarity in names be coincidental, or is this intended...

Why yes, of course there must be a single metric behind that oh so much headachingly far too complex notion. Nooo, just teasing. In fact, I have joined the ranks of the disbelievers in the underlying notion of reducing qualitative properties to quantitative measurements and now would propose...

Sooo... how do we convince you that some of your friends are trolling you?

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Way back then, I did find him threatening. That intense, dark look he gave opponents… but now he's just too cuddly.

Being the one that made the claim, that burden of proof is onto me, not onto someone doubting it. (Well, somebody positively denying it can be considered as putting forth a claim of her own, so perhaps that's not entirely true in this case.) My own "proof", of course, is merely anecdotal, in...

Great to see the both of you having so much fun! Highly contagious. Love the banter.

Good for you, Der! Wish I could say as much. Anyway, the deeper point I was trying to make is not that there is a strict age at which pain comes, but more generally that you, me, everybody (including all the representatives of the Illinois law enforcement community who have chosen to join us...

Or it’s just the wear and tear of age. As my doctor put it: if you’re over 50 and wake up painless you know you’re dead. He must be a religious man, come to think of it. Anyhow, at 60 you won’t get away with pretending 20. You need to adapt to new limits. Constantly.

I believe she coached, among others Roßkopf (Jorg) and Struse (Nicole) when they peaked somewhere in in the 90s and were the european top dogs for a while.

Floors. I can have quite a bit of difficulty coping with a gym-style playing venue. Soft linoleum floor. That doesn't only impact your movement and balance, but affects the bounce of the ball immensely too. A decent table on a beech floor, or a covering designed for table tennis (Gerflor and...

Hm. That Grubba is a great blade, if you ask me. But well, sometimes a change brings new things with it. Lots of options anyway. Sticking strictly to all-wood 5-ply frames with an Ayous core, the Yasaka Sweden Extra (which is a truly great blade) does not qualify, since it has Anegre outers...

Variety is the spice of life. If you're a defender, defend! That, to me, sounds pretty much like a version of the Cost Sunk Fallacy. That fallacy is an important reason, even at the macro level, why we keep doing things that we should by then understand will not pan out just because we've...

In my experience, when wetting the wood (which is what you do when applying a water-based sealant) the wood fibers will work a bit, making the surface notably rougher. You don't sand away the sealant, you just re-smooth the surface again. I may be wrong here, of course, and will gladly stand...

No need to sand it. Unless: you want to make the wings slightly less edgier. Unless: you seal the blade - no need to do that on Koto (imho), but if you do sand it very lightly with a very finegrained paper afterwards.