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I think a lifespan of ±200 hours of intensive use (2.5 months at 18hrs/week) isn't that bad at all. My Rasant Grip started slipping balls way before that. My experiences are limited, but here it goes. I'm playing about 12hrs/week, and… T05 lasted about 5-6 months for me then started to...

ML and FZD are beatable, surely, as we've seen. Whether or not they can be overcome when playing their A game is up there in the fog. I'll cheer when ML returns on the scene, but I'm not sure that he will, or in what form ML will be if that happens at all: the firebreathing dragon, or the meek...

We need way more of this approach. Very recognizable for me, having played a few of these blades, these metrics make sense. I wish blade vendors would specify composition, weight, balance, head and handle dimensions, primary and secondary elasticity and vibration indexes, or at least ranges of...

This is all crystal ball stuff, but I don't believe passive resistance is what's going on here. There may be pressure on the players to do this, as a first step toward the punishment they "deserve" for policital agitating against a superior's decision ("bringing shame to the face of the...

Don't think so. Anger, bitterness, a sense of frustrated responsibility and deep sorrow for the fate of his pupils now left to their fate and subject to secret punishment and public disdain is more likely. There are no winners here.

I do consider it possible that this is an exit strategy, implementing punishment in the longer terms to players barely touchable while on top. This goes for ML, XX, FZD. ZJK has been waning for a long time, ever since there really wasn’t anything left to win maybe. And yes, LGL’s sudden...

It's actually a very good idea to change one single thing at a time: the only way in which you can reasonably relate the changes you experience to the single component you changed. Your new blade is very unlikely to have the exactly same head size as your old one, so your old rubbers will...

The FZD/XX double I'm seeing now doesn't seem to be playing their A game. Unless strange things happen (which they do, but not very often) Harimoto/Kizukuri are cruising towards victory. My tin foil hat being off, I start to see a pattern in Ma Longs demise, Liu Guoliangs exile into a fancily...

Ooh, I think that black T05 must have worn down badly. It's so worn down the orange sponge shining through the black even makes it look red. Kidding, it looks fine, as far as looking at an images goes. It just doesn't look black. Maybe that's me.

Let me see if I understand that correctly. So at 13-13 Calderano serves. As he hits the ball serving, the sound is a bit suspicious. A rally ensues, in which the ball bounce and sound seem OK to me. It ends with a ball which I thought was long, a miss by Dyjas. However, Dyjas is awarded the...

Hm, I just posted instructions (using Quicktime Player and SoundFlower to capture the sound) but that disappeared. Maybe somebody considers the wish to capture streamed content inappropriate?

Revival, as in: Jonyer, Gergely, Klampár, Bence, Nándor? :-)

Well, that's entertainment for you. It's not about showcasing the glorious magnificence of the noble sport of table tennis, it's about having fun in an entertainment program, siphoning off the status of a national celebrity. That being said, the absolute top requires absolute dedication, and...

Wow. Right there on the other end of the Yellow Sea, opposite to the Koreas. No, that's in the south, so that's really not like "exiled to a labour camp in Siberia" at all. No way. Really. Mind you, these moose bites can be nasty.

Sounds like you’re headed for promotion to a higher league. If you keep doing that, you’re bound to run into opponents that can handle your first opening. And you’ll struggle for a while and then grow into that. Are you about par with your team mates? If they’re not able to block your spin...

Xu Xin. Let it be Xu Xin. Please. Spice of life stuff.

I think he mostly used his brain. His experienced, battle-savvy brain.

I’m with Kristian Karlsson. Oh wait, not on the list. Can’t be, then.

Even if we could do that, it would still not be fair. But I guess that's your point, and I subscribe to it. There's an element of randomness, unavoidably, with the tournament schemes tourning out lucky — or not. Anybody that's ever known the true meaning of having an ‘angst gegner’ will...

Prior to this post I had never heard of this Covfefe blade, so that piqued my interest. It's an interesting thing. People speculate about the core, either Kiri or Hinoki; outer plies of Hinoki, on top of ALC. Largish head size, seven plies below the handle thinning out to five plies in the...