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I like https://www.ttex.se/ (if only because of the free Swedish language training involved in ordering).

I have to sheets of Nanoflex FT40 (2.0, I think) lying around. For a reason. Admittedly a huge fan of the FT48, I use that as a BH rubber, have used it on FH as well (and might do so again, when my current T05 takes a hike up Narayama mountain). A friend of mine tried it, liked it but has a...

What oil? As to splintering, chipping: some veneers are prone to that. Coarser fibers, softer wood, rougher surface; sealing helps. Very rarely I’ve seen the outer ply come loose. When at the edgess, I always ascribe that to duress. Edge hits etc. But I have seen entire strips give way when...

GA8 (med) is 72g uncut, I recall. Par for the course for a 48° rubber, I think.

Feels a bit firmer, less edgy, about equally hard, very durable and quite affordable to boot, speedy but not like MX-P, spinny but not like MX-P. Great rubber if you’re below pro level.

Agree on R7 soft. R7 is also excellent, if you can handle it. I grew up on Mark V 2.0 when young. People considered that crazy fast back in the day, but boy could I destroy defenders by putting heavy spin on the ball! Fond memories.

Not qualified. I checked the list of qualified teams, and it contains: Asian, European, Pan-American, African and Oceanian champions (contains men's WR#1,2 and women's #1,6) For some or other reason the runner-up of the Pan-Am championships too (team USA, WR #45 men/#21 women) The WR teams #3...

Must be! And that glorious time reversal will also see Liu Guoliang reemerge from the penal colony, and Zhang Jike actually playing to his stature.

I've had one box (production/batch code XCAG) containing 10 outstanding balls, then ordered a few more and got a few boxes (production/batch code XHAG) filled with unplayable duds. Really disappointing. Verdict: D-, will not buy again until further notice.

That does sound quite like a XuShaoFa *** clone. Is the Flash pretty much the same thing, rebranded?

The typical reverse pendulum isn't just top-side, under-side or no-spin, I think I'm seeing different levels of corkscrew spin (spin along that other axis in the threedimensional plane) fairly regularly.

Mixed test! Three blades, three players. Zhang Jike gets to choose whether he wants to bring a ZJK ALC or a Viscaria; Timo brings his TB ALC, and Dima his OTC. A number of excercises/challenges is set up, and the players perform them with their own blade. Metrics are kept. Then all three...

Yes. We should never, never, never forget the fundamental imbalance between the individual and large organisations - be they "modern" nation states, classic monarchies or theocracies, large business corporations, or other upscale criminal organisations. Repression is always lurking near. We...

I actually think coke makes you think you're the master of the universe, whereas outside observers just get to witness an irritating, inconsequential, tattering, clumsy, bumbling, fumbling concentration-deprived loony. I don't particular thinks it helps in the subtleties of timing...

Sounds like Rasanter R47 to me.

That's true, Baal. Yet the very same argument applies to top sports more generally. At some point, there is a point at which excercise stops to be good for your health, but is taxing your physionomy too much. People shorten their lifespan by overexcersizing. Not just as an immediate effect...

That's a tradition dating futher back. East-Germany, and in US athletics in that same period doping depth and width also should give pause to consider it as system-level endemic. I did once get to touch upon this subject with a british athlete buddy I happen to run into every now and then (one...

If you ingest/use anything, there's bound to be an effect (even if it's just sugar-coated calcium or a water capsule). Even without any biochemical effect whatsoever, depending on your mindset, you'll either benefit from the placebo effect or suffer from the nocebo effect. You can of course...

Yes, they did. Yet they too went through the dark; and they were not ring leader, were they? Yet I too hope you’re right, and it’s all happenstance. I am not sure about that, though.

Maybe so, maybe not. What I'm seeing is a muddy period (stretching monthts) after with little public presence, for whatever reason; same for XX and FZD. Maybe there are injuries, maybe not. If there's talk of injuries there might really be injuries after all, of course. He may really be...