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Hm, so you want to have something that's like the Freitas ALC on FH, and like the Innerforce ALC on BH. :-) Sounds doable. I think Yogi is right about his observation — given that to get the same weight a Kiri core would be slightly thicker.

Ah yes… I felt enormous control when playing with the Treiber K, but I think I've realised since then that feeling control doesn't actually equal having it. A custom blade builder may get you there. May people like Limba as an outer ply, but the Limba blades I used didn't work that well for...

Here are my €.02. Ayous is relatively stiff, and harder and a bit heavier than Kiri. Suited for close-to-the table play, counterdrives and such. SG is 0.32, Janka 430lbf. Kiri is also stiff, but softer. SG is 0.26, Janka 250lbf. I like the way Kiri vibrates more (I think the customary...

No. If you think bullying people is funny: it isn't. If you think insulting people is funny: it's not. If you consider attacking non-native speakers on perceived lack of language mastery acceptable: no. If you think trolling is fun and OK: really, no. It's immature malevolence, and harmful...

Picking up the forum after a few hours, I see a series of rude, insulting posts with an aggressive subtext as the common denominator. What happened? Who put what in everybodies’ drinks?

The Janka indices of Koto and Anegre are very close, as is their SG. I use a blade with Koto on FH and Anegre on BH. I also have a YSE, and the feel of that made me consider Anegre. They feel equally hard, the Koto side a bit more lively and the Anegre side feels a bit more, well...

That point @7:01, was it really LSW's?

That is exactly the question that lead me to DAb. You don't just order a blade with a few parameters you can tweak in a web form, you engage in a lively design discussion with Dimitri. He is an opinionated discussion partner, actively proposing some options and advising against others. That...

My humble submission to that list is DA blades (DAb). (Playing with a blade built by DA for abt half a year now, enjoying it immensely and perhaps it's worth a mention that I haven’t lost a single match with it yet. I think it’s beyond OK.)

I have only my own blade to go by, can’t compare with other builders. Few (if any), I suspect, have consigned the same design to multiple builders. Yet many builders produce well-crafted, different, blades. So by what qualities would the best merit that distinction?

Thank you so, so, so much. I've seen him play, in the flesh, an amazing experience.

That TV fragment has him stating sensible goals: getting back in touch with the game, slowly, by playing a number of open tournaments. Sounds like realistic goals, and he doesn't seem to want to set high expectation levels.

No, hardened limba.

Convincing win, over a strong defender. Let's rejoice!

ZHANG JIKEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

The boy is alive. Good.

What I saw was ZJ producing a lot of serves that looked rather poor but nevertheless were not capitalized upon by Stoyanov. I also saw a pattern of too-slow reset-to-position, mostly after serving but also after BH flicks of the banana persuasion. Yet there was also amazing power and...

What if indeed. Well, I think LGL coaching and training top-level CNT players he's been observing for many years, knows intimately and has bonded with deeply is a different thing from him coaching relative unknowns, lesser related-to foreign players. Whatever the country. The language barrier...

By looking at the composition and dimensions: the core wood (Cedars, both) might be relatively heavy, and the head size is largish.

Wow, great footage. Lots of good play. Astounding rise to the occasion of Vostes in the 4th of his Kreanga match; very strong performance by both there. And a nerve-wracking decisive fifth to boot, oh my. Wonderful.