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TTR Hunter usually has insightful videos, I will watch and return with my own lower level opinions later lol.

No, it doesn't, there are strokes where T05 gives more spin than T05H and strokes were T05H gives more spin than T05. The same would be true for T05 vs T05FX, all things being equal, to give another example. Your question paints a misleading picture that for all strokes, T05H generates more...

My answer (and Lazer's as well) was pretty clear. A harder sponge can absorb more energy on powerful strokes even if it is more difficult to get "easy" spin out of it. Obviously, for every player, there is a range where they feel comfortable playing in which a rubber might optimally play in...

How much worse for looping? And what about blocking, flat hitting, pushing, serving and chopping? Or even touching the ball short?

I know pros (2600-2700, so maybe not 2750+) who still use regular 05. But higher level players can get the best out of harder sponge, but there are lower players who prefer them too.

Yes, but I am normalizing, not talking about absolute values. And the top is able to influence manufacturers more directly than the bottom which is relevant.

In other words, having a harder sponge, all things being equal, affects the very variables that our resident know-it-all keeps parroting in response to various inputs and not everyone wants to change their inputs to produce different outputs - some want different outputs in response to their...

I think there is more testing at the expert bottom and the very top than in between or the very bottom. At the very top, the manufacturers can work with them on design and innovation and they can be very specific about what they think will help or not help. At the expert bottom, people...

This is not as big a deal as many people are making out, my spins tend to be high to the net and I doubt most people here could smash them consistently, it takes a certain level of player to smash heavy spin if it is really heavy, even if the ball is high, because being high can sometimes bait...

My coach still uses regular T05 on both sides of a Viscaria. While T05H will be more common for some players, there are still many who have adapted their games to Tenergy and see no point in changing. It is probably those at the very top looking for an edge that might test more stuff.

Without seeing you play, I suspect the issue is that your game speed and spin level are not causing the opponent problems. Just continue to work on increasing the spin you can give the ball - reduce the speed and make the spin as heavy as possible, sometimes by serving heavier backspin to get...

This caught my eye because many players without untrained eyes might find the first serve better and wonder what the coaching did lol!

What you select is under pressure is usually some combination of what you think will work and what you have practiced doing over time, and flat shots are always more instinctive to produce than spin shots unless a lot of training has been done. Without video, I am not sure what quality of...

The most important thing is that you have good mentoring/coaching, I "fell" into the equipment junkie "trap" and I am not entirely sure it hurt my game - it definitely helped me see the psychology of choice. But this was in the 40mm cell ball days. As long as you are happy with your game and...

You have to come up the front of the ball just like you do with forehand serves. Some people do it with grip adjustments (taking the finger off the blade so that can make the blade angle up more by rotating the blade in the hand) but once you understand what you have to do and you are flexible...

Without video to tell whether you are being objective or not, you do sound very confident and don't seem to have much respect for your opponent's game. Our game of table tennis is a game of spin, and the ability to read spin can challenge one as much as athletic ability, sometimes even moreso...

What you are describing is very common for many reasons. And there are many angles to look at it from. If you don't record yourself a lot, in fact, how you felt about when you were hitting Ma Long forehands and Fan Zhendong backhands is a memory, you don't know whether it actually happened or...

Low stakes probably means a different thing for me and you. What would have been the consequences of Ma Long losing to Yoshimura? That's how I define the stakes - the loss simply gave him another opportunity to qualify. Remember, Ma Long already pulled this same stunt under very similar...

Won't find out until the weekend. Should be a bit slower than what I usually use.