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The original quesrion was which makes moee difference, rubber or blade. *more difference*. Both have impacts but which determines style and performance more? If you had a limited budget, would your budget go more into choice of rubbers or choice of blades? Your point that you can use a...

Thats not the experiment that is being run. The experiment is who would win, someone with a cheap blade but modern state of the art rubber or someone with a cheap rubber but modern state of the art blade. Is a pro likely to be able to.play the way he wants to because he is using a better...

No one is in quite the way you are. The rubber is key to playing style and performance because spin is the basis of the speed in the modern playing style and even cheap old blades can generate decent speed. The problem is that sometimes they are thicker than optimal so the use of composites...

Three re-quotes to answer the question? If by shot quality you mean speed, it clearly depends as you can still hit a better ball with 09c on a premade blade than you would with a no-sponge rubber or Mark V. My point in part is that you seem to be focused on optimal performance which requires a...

Got back to work so you all will be spared my.musings for a while. Still training once a week or less lol.

Is Wong Chun Ting taking Wang Chuqin 7 games a sign of weakness or strength lol?

Looks sorta like the male version of the Fan Siqi - Wang Manyu match.

As you get older, the variability becomes greater. National Games is pretty tough as well. All those guys who can't beat foreigners all the time but sometimes play like peak Ma Long for 1 hour per year get a seat at thr table.

Interesting that the Motos are finally taking a rest. Hopefully will help them a bit for the grand finals. If Joo makes it, I wonder whether it is likely for any player to drop out. That said, Sabine missing the event is not the end of the world, it is likely to be a first round exit for most...

Barely escaped deuce in the 7th...

Wow, Wang Manyu pulled it out? Fan Siqi is so underrated lol...

Yes, it is less spinny tthan before but to be honest, the effects of the change in ball material haven't been separated from the size increase. The main point though is that you can't just spin the ball and win points like you used to be able to. Whether that is because the ball rotates less...

What they mean is that woth thd old ball, the amount of rotation you could put on thr ball was often a weapon. So you could play at a slower tempo with spinny loops and make the opponent hesistant to attack because of the quality of spin. With the new balls. This is much harder. As Timo...

My apologies maybe I should have asked you which stars are flat hitting more rather than assuming I know what you meant. But there is a common misconception that when a player is hitting the ball fad through the table, they are spinning the ball less than when they loop backspin slowly. While...

That you continue to post things that show you don't understand what you are watching. Driving the ball is not flat hitting. Go watch Hugo with pongfinity and see the shot he played to maximize spin measurements.

Blades as products don't have the broad consistency of rubbers either, mostly because wood is a living thing. For all we know, one pr both of those blades could be outliers relative to their expected design specs.

The spin is used to increase the speed and consistency of powerful shots, not to just win points just on spin. The faster blades become useless in the absence of spinny rubbers with sponge to increase dwell on powerful shots. Hardbat often uses slower and flexible blades for this reason. All...

For any style, both are important. The point though is that for modern table tennis, spin is more important than control/feeling though everyone wants the best of both.

Because people are different - what I consider a good blade may not be the same as what you do. Sometimes, what I consider a top blade today is not the same as what I considered it yesterday lol.

Like some have pointed out, this is very much a test of playing level. While in modern times, pros do use faster blades to deal with the plastic ball and rubbers designed to spin more (and therefore usually the rubbers have more dwell time and need faster blades to release the ball better), the...