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Someone said it was likely a higher official unhappy that the World Cup was not won by China this year that forced this on the team.

Changing the contact point changes the angle. And spin avoidance makes the extremes much less extreme than they would be without it. Respinning heavy spin relies upon avoidance to a good degree - the ball will be off your paddle before you can even do anything if you take the spin on the equator.

I am imagining all the possible solutions and recommendations I can give in the absence of videotape... So I decided to imagine how Archo would play but I could not, so I decided not to write what I could have written had there been videotape... The one thing I will say is this: closing your...

Vega Pro is a bit hard, but it is a good step down from the Chinese rubber - it was once considered the best T05 substitute in terms of arc when power looping and topsheet grip so it will get the job done, even though the newer rubbers have some different advantages. Rakza X is also good and...

From the video, yes. You are not swinging consistently with the effort that H3 demands, you are not counterlooping close to the table vs heavy spin and most of the players at your level are not serving you short so what are you gaining? If you like hard Euro sponge, try something like MX-P or...

Filimon.

I gave the Hannibal some burn yesterday. I kinda liked the way it played, but the biggest issue was how it felt - it felt hollow compared to IF ALC and I prefer a more solid feel. I will give the Kanaph some burn possibly this weekend.

There is a lot of stuff wrong with your strokes and approach to the game vs dead balls. You may not think you played well, but for your technique, you pretty much did the best you could. You had to play shots all the time using the forehand and backhand technique you showed in the first three...

Will write more after watching the match but it is obvious that both sides are dead and he is using thinner sponge than a true looper would. Just listen to the sound of the forehand during the warm up - that is not a looping rubber sound - more like pips, possibly anti-spin. Anti-spin or a...

https://thoughtsontabletennis.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/on-tacky-rubbers/ Since I used tacky rubber to work on my technique a few times, I understand this view but in my opinion, it doesn't get to the heart of the matter. The first thing to make clear is that euro rubbers are faster and...

I liked softer rubbers for a while and people kept on telling me they were bad for the forehand. Now I felt my backhand was more powerful than many forehands I played against and I never understood what people were saying but I accepted the conventional wisdom over time. Then I heard this guy...

The other good way is to loop to an anti-spin or a pips punch blocker and learn to reloop against the lower spin ball or dead ball. Relooping against a chop blocker is also a good way to improve your ability to loop the backspin ball.

It's mostly the maturity of the player as a whole, but equipment does help once you know what you need to solve for and you have an idea of what tradeoffs you have to make. The thing about equipment is that you need to think through the range of shots you need to and want to play and how the...

I know a 2200 Indian player, uses Mark V on a Gergely on his forehand... One of the spinniest forehands you will see. He didn't enjoy playing me last year so he didn't play me this year...

You learn to loop those balls. It is actually easier to kill a no spin ball than it is a topspin ball because the stroke is all yours, you just need to know in advance it is a no spin ball and have the right stroke for the job. The real issue is whether you are really generating or borrowing...

I don't try to dissuade fanbois, I let them find out the hard truth on their own. H3 is an advanced rubber.

Tacky rubber is just slow and less spinny. There can be advantages to this (potentially more control especially close to the table and on pushes), but there are also disadvantages (harder to make high spin offensive shots). It's unlikely you will ever be able to put in the effort required to...

Yes. The reason is called "more spin". Another good reason is better quality control, but it depends on where you want your game to go.

There is truth to this, but sometimes, high level junk balls don't come at you the same way lower level junk balls do. Lower level ones tend to look like good stroke but from a player who doesn't make consistently good contact with the ball if at all. So a better player like Boogar might read...

Depending on how you want to play and how much money you have, the sooner you leave Chinese tacky rubbers behind the better. Obviously, your budget is the key.