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9 is too many stars 🙅‍♂️

Best: Still searching, but every time I pick up my coach's racket (a custom Yinhe clone of W968 w/Dignics 05 and T05) I beg him to sell it to me. Alas, it was a gift so he's pretty attached to it 🥲. Worst: Hands down my old Butterfly VSG-4000 with AK47 Red on both sides. It was like playing...

I'm a fan of Glayzer. Normally I would say it's probably too hard to play well on an old 5-ply like the Samsonov Alpha, but that is a slightly harder blade and I don't know your level or physical ability. It may be fine, but coming from something softer like EL-P you might find it harder to...

Now we know who they're talking about when they talk about toxic fans :ROFLMAO:

Just a note, Glayzer is a big jump in hardness from your EL-P, closer to the Earth II in your profile. Probably a bit more of that Butterfly catapult. I love it, but don't expect the same soft feeling you get from EL-P. As for backhand, which Moon are you using now? Have you tried Moon 12 Blue...

Don't tease... 🥺

Huh. Now this is actually a nifty concept. Also known as "drawdown bars," "metering rods," or "metering bars." The diameter of the wire determines the thickness of the coating, down to the µm! I wonder what the ideal glue thickness is for TT rubbers? (As with much about gluing, it probably comes...

But...why? 😶

I don't normally disagree so strongly with subjective blade assessments, but I'm tempted to suggest you got a weird one-off specimen, or Xiom packed the wrong blade in your box... My HAL is 86g. I've moved onto another primary blade now but I picked up my HAL again a few days ago in training...

There are too many good ones. I love Yinhe's space themes, especially the Moon 12 Blue and Big Dipper. Yasaka's various "___ Dragon" artwork is all evocative. But as far as something iconic and instantly recognizable, I think the Stiga Mantra are my favorites. Here's another one of those...

I was gonna say this reminds me of the VSG series. (I still have my old VSG-4000!) Interestingly enough, Butterfly sells Sunflex balls on their main website, so Sunflex could be a subsidiary/manufacturer for them based in China. This would explain the visual and structural similarities to the...

On the one hand, those are generally what I would assume those terms to mean, but that is based entirely on my familiarity with blades; it's certainly left unclear to anyone new to the sport. (I think we agree here.) On the other hand, that definition of "repulsion" sounds like the direct...

That's how I read the graph. They use the same/similar system in their catalogs. What irks me more is the four qualifying measurements they use for blades: "catapult," "ball grab," "repulsion," and "precision." I'm fine with manufacturers having their own way of describing blade properties but...

The way I see it, there's sort of three approaches you can take. 1. Practice serve-third ball attack patterns. Develop a handful of serves that force your opponent to give you an attackable ball - not a loopable backspin ball, since that seems to put you into an uncomfortable rally, but ones...

I would venture that this had more to do with you re-gluing your rubber than with the edge tape. More glue, less glue, tension released from the rubber, tension added to the rubber...there are too many other variables. Racket gluing is a very unscientific process that people try to make very...

I'm sort of beating a dead horse by saying "everybody's different" but while some talented and/or well-coached amateurs can surely pick up D09c and learn to use it to full effect I generally agree with this statement the most. It's easy to fall into the trap of hitting a plateau in your training...

Joking aside purple rubber would look slick with that green & yellow handle...

I just picked up a sheet of Glayzer...my first* Butterfly rubber since Sriver EL. @Gozo Calderano How long before the initial high wears off and I start to chase the pink-sponged dragon? *OK, I also own a D09c that was gifted to me but so far I've kept the lion in its cage...