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What do you mean to ask? Why Ma Long, after leading a protest, was ominously told to expect ‘severe penalty’, along with two other players and two coaches joining in? Why these players have since shown up at few international tournaments, seeming lesser than themselves often when they did, and...

I've been having that cruel phrase, "severe penalty", resounding in my head over and over again, ever since the China Open.

Sorry, but that's just more handwaving and hearsay. No specifics then, no sources, no references?

While I freely admit to using drugs myself (hard drugs even, including an occasional sip of G&T; but also painrelief during surgery, and suchlike) I still think that's quite an accusation to make. Such an accusation entails the burden of evidence, methinks. Do you have sources to back these...

Pondering this, and looked around. I noticeh high-level players using Bluefire Big Slam over a year without complaints, and even one using a slab of red Baracuda that’s many years old and still spinny as hell. So, not many use Donic covering, hence a small sample. But that small sample gets...

If I could play like that, I'd be smiling all the time. Bigly. Unwavering, stupidly happy, shit-eating grins all day long. With that spectacular ring of chearleaders kicking the game off maybe even more so. [Edit: drat, I thought I had managed to drown out these choirs of fans cheering...

Welcome Togepi. Hope you have a good club nearby! Go there, and join in. Play everybody. If everything's far away and options are limited (and your time is less so), consider having a go with https://www.pingskills.com (or somesuch on-line TT academy). I'll mention...

Lower weight so less punch but more agile, smaller sweet spot.

I'm not Yogi (sorry) but I have played with Gold Arc 8 (having EJed a nice blade with it together to toy with), and can attest to the reviews. It is very, very fast to start with, and I have yet to see its peak in spin production. A top-notch rubber for better players than me ("with great...

Orocharu in beast mode tops Ma Long in mortal mode, so it seems.

Thought about it a bit. For the last few months I’ve come to admire Ma Long even more — for his loyalty to LGL, which to me expresses superogatory dedidication to the sport, first and foremost.

I can see that clip only in browsers that allow the evil empire called Facebook to lay its dirty hands all over me. I'll have to shower thoroughly now. Anyway, I'll hazard a guess. The controversy starts with a hit that, to me, looks like the ball must have been very wet. A solid spin sees...

05. But it is livelier on low impact, and T05 has that zesty Tenergy-feel. GA8 lets you feel the ball very well as you grab it, and a full stroke produces a sick sound. Hard not to love that!

Rozena on BH. And on FH too. Or T05 or T80 on FH if it has to be BTY; a top ESN high-tension rubber if not (Rasanter, Bluestorm, EL-S, Genesis M, MX-P, …). Bryce HS is not on equal standing with these, imho, though it did shine once these days have passed. (Sniff, Chack!)

It’s also an object of affection, I guess. A thing one develops a personal, one might even say intimate relationship with. Anthropomorphization is simply the next train stop from there. Besides, my Kay’s got both a temper and a dark soul. She can sing jubilantly too. A character, a name.

I find it heartbreaking and depressing. A great loss, personally for the three coaches and the three players, and for the sport. There’s only hurt here, no entertainment. Yes, bloody civil wars, interesting history from a few centuries distance. War of the roses is somewhat entertaining when...

Yes. We also use ‘plank’ and ‘plankje’ colloquially, strictly indicating the blade but quite often loosely referencing the full gear. A pars pro toto, exempliary.

Also right eye, never knew that. I’m lefthanded by inclination, but was taught to write righthanded and I play righthanded, not sure if I qualify as a true rightie. I used to be BH dominant, but am probably lightly FH dominant now. I regress to BH dominance when worn out playing, certainly...

Kay. As in, Tray Bar Kay.

The expedition rule would kick in, after a mindboggingly tedious while. See: Li Jie.