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Beating top 20 players is not good enough to stay on CNT A team. But I know what you mean just pointing that out.

It is really funny that I thought the Qabod was a brick when I first used it. It seems to me that the plastic ball makes everything slower and there are no true OFF+ blades anymore.

So as I try to come back, the main frustration is that after I play, I feel as if I need to put my knees into a cryogenic chamber. How long I can keep this up I don't know, but my ball quality has mostly returned and I actually think my strokes are better now even as my footwork is shit. I...

It depends on whether you engage the carbon or not. It is very hard for a wood blade to compete with a carbon blade on power shots.

Yes, there was a time when you could change rackets during the match and at any point in time too. If it wasn't against the rules, then players will adapt to that as well. There are pros and cons to things like this. But it is obvious that changing rackets is not unequivocally to the detriment...

People who quit at the top sometimes strike me as people afraid to lose. Not a fan of this. Don't have fun only when you win!

Even if we ignore the fact that women need a decent amount of body fat to retain healthy metabolism, you can't tell someone is overweight because of *too much fat* by looking at them. In fact, Adam Bobrow has pointed out on many occasions that Chen Meng is phenomenally strong and that when he...

I think DE answered you. The idea that two racket play exactly the same just because they look exactly the same is a denial of wood and sponge hardness variability. And like I explained, pros do things to their rackets to optimize them for specific situations. If Dima is playing say Joo or...

I don't know why we are even seriously arguing any of this. I can't remember who told me that Zhang Jike used to test his 4 Viscarias on almost any given day and play with the one he liked the best that day. And in the end, even if it is all in the head of the pro, there is no need to let them...

That doesn't mean that each player can't mess with his rubbers.

Then in that case why don't we all just use exactly the dame equipment and stop letting everyone pick their own blades etc? I will let you have the last word. You keep writing like someone who hasn't discussed these things with good players.

DE, Honestly, Atas writes about equipment and player mindset like someone who has never played table tennis but just understands what people generally say about it. Maybe Chuang spin is bothering him and he wants to use a deader racket like he has in his spare. How do you know? Unless he has...

But it is not done you to determine that. You have no clue whether his rubber was playing faster or slower or his blade was playing faster or slower. Sometimes players adjust their rackets for specific opponents. You act as if pros don't look for advantages in their equipments. They do.

Again you should know that no matter what you are hitting with, you have to submit it for testing and inspection before and sometimes after the match.

You are speaking quite frankly like someone who doesn't play table tennis. You mean you have never played a match where you were not happy with your equipment and how it played?

The rules actually used to permit this. Some people used to bring suitcases and change almost every point. In any case some people don't understand that you should not cheat. It is professional to make sure your equipment is up to snuff before the match.

What makes you think he is changing to a racket he isn't accustomed to? These are the kinds of assumptions that surprise me. Timo Boll is using 6 set ups that are identical. You think he is going to switch to something he doesn't use? It would be interesting to see whether Atas plays...

Debatable if you don't understand that you only want to change a racket if you don't feel you are playing well with it. It is not debatable at all.

If he didn't have a history of doing this, we would take this more straightforwardly. The suspension of the player and the coach speaks louder than anything he says.

This is what we need. I don't know why people tried to say it was not a deliberate action to his advantage earlier in the thread.