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You should've known better as you played in 38mm era. Not even Butterfly could come close to Chinese tacky rubbers in the old days. If ESN can't even dethrone Butterfly in grippy rubbers after 20 years, what are their chances for tacky rubbers? To fill you in, Butterfly tried it with D'OR in...

Could be a blip. Not sure why it sold so well last month. It was nowhere to be seen the previous months. Might have to do with some kind of sales or Victas' campaign?

Skipped Nov 2020 because it was more or less the same but Dec 2020 is worth updating as Rozena takes 1st place again. Super Ventus also makes it to 6th place. Victas' marketing strategy starting to work? Swat also takes back the throne after losing it to Innerforce Layer ALC for 2 months...

TG 2/3 were designed for a different purpose by DHS. They were never supposed to surpass H2/H3. Back when it was introduced in 2006, the Skyline series was defined as control-oriented, whereas the Hurricane series was speed-oriented, with the difference mostly in the topsheets. Over the...

First and foremost, Second, you really need to see the super slowmo footage of a ball-rubber-blade interaction. Yours can't even compare. Butterfly has recently showed the one for Tenergy on TV again. Last, there's another paper from 2017 by former CNT player Chang Chenchen where she finds...

Thanks for that link. Rediscovered my own reply to AgentHEX from 2013 that happens to be relevant here. In and of itself a proof of my consistency over the years. http://www.mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=62442&PID=749417&title=dwelltime#749417

They learn it wrong in terms of physics(see next passage). But because it's not physiologically possible, they are bound to do it right in terms of physics. As you mentioned earlier, there are many "mental constructs" that players use to internalize the physics model. There's a series of...

Players always say things that, more often than not, do not match what actually takes place but what's more important is to figure out what they really mean rather than "I have the best loops!"...

What a pain. How about some actual substance, folks? Table tennis strokes are like multistage rockets, where different parts of the body work in succession at different segments of the stroke. It can be broken down into 2 stages: primary acceleration, in which the lower body accelerates from...

Correction. Decided to look up the rules after over a decade. For whatever reason, JTTA doesn't make their official handbook available online, even in this day and age. In 2006, JTTA relaxed the "J.T.T.A.A." requirement for rubbers. All I.T.T.F. approved rubbers on the LARC could be used in...

JTTA requires the JTTAA stamp on blades and rubbers for all its local competitions. No stamp, no play.

I wouldn't count this one much just as I don't count Ishikawa's win much. Harimoto is still recovering from his lower back pain. I've been keeping tabs on the Japanese sports news and in various interviews of swimmers and badminton players, they all mention they could peak once or twice a...

Not surprised. Super Ventus was released in 2018. As I have stressed, all relatively recent Tensor models are rehashes and cash grabs, so I wouldn't lump them together despite the name. For example, Hexer HD is closer to Rasant than it is to Hexer and Hexer+. For ESN, late 2009 to mid 2010...

Ventus, released in 2013, belongs to the wave of Bluefire/Rasant/Evolution...from 2012, which was IMHO the "last big jump" for ESN. Ventus Spin is usable on the FH, which was "big" for Tensors. The series will get a facelift under Victas. Victas claims the performance will remain unchanged...

Before folks waste more of my time, do note that due to the lack of doubles events, the singles matches are scheduled really tight, likely out of safety concerns. Previously, the 2 WS SFs are usually scheduled on 1 table at, 10:00 and 11:00, before the final at 15:00. Assuming a 7-gamer takes...

Be very surprised. Ito did make excuses in the post-match interview. https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/sports/table-tennis/2631765/ The shock of defeat is considerable, "I had yet to recover, or rather, I laughed at what I was doing." As a side note, Kurashima did defend Harimoto's form is far...

He's set for WTT Middle East. He earned it. As funny as it sounds now, Mizutani actually predicted Harimoto and Hayata in NHK News Watch 9 aired on the 14th, explaining that even though Ito's serve is "sugoi", as her doubles partner, Hayata is used to coping with it. It turned out true for...

Ito & Hayata: Tell Zennoh to stop fixing the draw! We've had enough!

JTTA: Maybe we should rethink/reform our selection criteria for Olympics and WTTC. Other than Mizutani, The entire men's team for WTTC 2020 was annihilated. 1st Uda, 2nd Niwa, 3rd Harimoto, and 4th Morizono.

It would've been more convincing if Ishikawa got past Hayata and Ito. Ishikawa had the easiest draw among Ito, Hayata and Hirano. As it stands, she has Hayata to thank for sapping Ito.