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Hi guys, I am also interested in your downtown USA and can bring my vintage seventies Jonyer ST Butterfly blade to the party. [emoji855]

Is Stiga Genesis M best on fh og bh?? True. Tried that combi on a friend’s blade. Twiddling messes with my head though, or more specifically, my basic muscle automatisms. In the end I always go back to setups in which I get similar feedback on FH and BH. Not necessarily the same, but close...

It’s a given! Dima did suddenly raise his level, and overpowered FZD for now. Yet there are whispers about the mythical weak Dima FH, and if any of that were true FZD needs fear no more. Intouchable. But will he be allowed to, having committed high treason (as some describe it) or showed deep...

“Even for me it is too hard to hit it exactly like so. So for me it is important that I hit the ball at all.“ So true, yet I think the frame of reference for the ‘at all’ is quite far from my own here. And seeing these serves, I think Schlager really did manage to up JO’s serve. Incredible...

Is that the same as Globe 999? Also good stuff, back then, but that was the height of the trspeedglue age and Kong Linggui its hero.

Not strictly chinese, maybe, but I like the vastly unknown and hence highly underrated Gewo Thunderball2 quite a bit. You supply the power, TB2 does the rest.

Which is not "changing rubbers twice a year". If you *do* change rubbers twice a year, you just need two pairs. Every year. That is the thing with calendrical calculations (yes, that is a name coined for this field...

Rossi shows advanced mastery of understatement. "I think they have some system's problem", he said, and I cringed at the horror hidden in plain sight behind these few words.

Exactly. So why the three pairs, every year?

Mathematician here, so indeed, I don’t consider counting easy or a given. Many ways to do it, and I confess I am a rather limited human. Nevertheless, your reasoning away the first rubber replacement, that provides your year’s counting starting point as if it were an act of god, some sort of...

Interesting. The XCAG batch I had (pre-september) played well, the gross of post-september XHAGs were total duds, so different that I suspected them to be fakes. I just don’t know anymore now, but I’m certainly very disappointed with the recent D40+ balls I’ve played with. Throwing them out.

Yogi B. has, and has reviewed it, see http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=73333&title=stiga-exclusive-blade-review

By this reasoning, I count three replacement for three pairs. If you don’t count the first one that leaves just two. Not a very solid way to do the basic arithmetic, really, but that’s fine and dandy with me.

I think the backstory of internal political powerstruggles, fallouts and subsequent changes of the powerstructures at GAS/GSA level and above is more convincing. But I haven't heard much recently of Cai Zhenhua's current position, and more generally of the developing relations between the...

Just curious here, what's that third pair used for then, as it doesn't seem to be getting placed on a blade?

I was looking at that blade because its construction seemed close to the Stiga "Offensive Wood" blades I used four decades ago, but now that you point it out I think it's a few mm thicker. Which may not be a bad idea, given this 40mm slow-ass ball. Some say the Yasaka Ma Lin Extra Offensive is...

Oooh, a steal at 599SEK, https://www.ttex.se/sv/stommar/6777-stiga-bordtennisstomme-exclusive-off.html.

You mean to say you think he has tension myositis syndrome? Why?

MydasDiablo recently offered two Adidas V1.3 blades and sold the heavier one to me. The other one was somewhere around 85g and might still be available. If so: it’s a great OFF- all-wood 5-ply. Outer layers are Hinoki, then Awan, Kiri core. It has a great feel, power reserves and a crisp...

H3N is extremely demanding. If you can’t supply the immense power it needs, you need to mend and make do. Might be all there’s to that. And yes, he looks spent. Memories of true greatness and deep respect remains. May he be reinvagorated, reborn, and rise again!