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You can argue all you want, but almost all professionals are boosting in one way or another. It is hard to play table tennis at the top levels without well boosted rubbers either by the manufacturer or in may cases yourself. All the ITTF can measure is racket thickness. They should have made...

No, I think there are good reasons to ignore an unenfoeceble rule, especially one badly written, in an age where we see the serve rule is terribly enforced and the rule was made largely to keep TT manufacturers profitable and little elae.

No need to try to make this sound like the people who disagree with you don't know something you do. It's always been clear that in addition to being unenforceable since the use of boosters largely replicate manufacturing processes of boosted rubbers, the language around racket treatment is...

Most people who know the lady pictured above and that she used long pips on her backhand would realize how ridiculous the technical argument is without context.

Elbow positioning is 95% of this, but I don't remember you blocking weird. If you have the right arm structure, everything tends to work out whether you take the ball early or late. But the arm structure and elbow need to be in the right place.

That is insane.

It is helpful when you write things like this, so we can know the kinds of assumptions you are making and whether your statements are representative of the situations that many players face. You can watch players like Ibrahima Diaw on youtube talk about his situation in his vlogs and see...

You are allowed to ask me questions as well, you are claiming I misrepresented you, but I am pretty sure I did not. Your hate and disdain for people who play with pips shines through everything you write, you come from a place where pips means that the person couldn't play with inverted...

It is less sticky but it requires more effort to play because of harder sponge. Some of it depends on how the sheet is cared for (even Rakza Z loses some stickiness if you don't use protector sheets all the time). The most important thing is that you are okay with it. Everyone's feeling is...

"Technical limits" : please explain what this means beyond something is wrong with the player because they cannot play with inverted. Because you keep saying that "technical rubber" is used because someone has "technical limits" as opposed to just accepting that the person might just want to...

No, there are event-approved hotels.

Where I live, you have to pay more for refundable tickets in order to be able to change or cancel. And last minute changes closer to the deadline often incur higher costs based on demand closer to the date. Maybe our experiences in the US are different from your experiences in Greece.

I wish you wrote regular English, it is harder to see the different terminologies using a translator. There was a time Dima tried using Hurricane on forehand during the brief period he was coached by Persson. After a while, he gave up and went back to his regular rubbers before Butterfly...

Professional is a vague term, it refers to Quadri as well as to Fan Zhendong as well as to Simon Gauzy as well as Timo Boll or Ibrahim Diaw or Luka Mladenovic. And trust me, Quadri is the one who bears the costs when things get moved because he has to plan out how to feed his family and make...

This is borderline trolling, do you actually play table tennis or know any pros?

You wrote " imagine him playing with technical stuff because he cannot push on his FH and keeps using his BH to do so." My point is that since it is not to his advantage to use that, why should he use it? And that when Luka is using such material, or even Gionis, is it because they have an...

Part of the problem with the world is when someone sees something he cannot understand and deems it a bad thing because he cannot understand it. The game is not to hit the hardest ball possible, it is to keep the ball on the table given the rules. But it is okay, you have your own opinion, but...

So you think it would have being easier for him to use "technical stuff" to achieve his goals?

You need to get out more and see more unorthodox table tennis styles if you really believe this. There are a lot of styles out there that if honed to a high level by someone with the physical capability, could get someone into top hundred. You just won't see or hear about them because as a...

It's really a comment about the player's understanding of table tennis. Blahness is mostly trolling for/against pips with some of his comments, but lowday20298 revealed his familiarity with table tennis as a combination of mind and muscle right there.