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Yasaka Sweden Extra Penhold.

It's hard to read spin visually and via audio even when you are playing the opponent live, unless maybe you have been playing the game since you were 5. But if you play enough at a certain level, you pick up cues to read it. I know you are kinda complimenting my game, but other than my opening...

Likely Hao Shuai, possibly Zhang Chao.

Since I like the control and directness of the Karis (its spin is not shabby either), I think my current blade is too slow to use with it. My current blade was partly a choice to help with my short game while using Tenergy, but since I don't have to deal with the bounciness of Tenergy anymore...

The spin is "obvious", you just have to know what to look for. If the racket is grippy and moving fast, especially the wrist, the contact is silent, and the ball is coming off slowly, then the ball has to be loaded with spin. As you play better and better players and get more used to reading...

My head says 3, my heart says 5... I will stick with my head and say 3.

So you think that I get on archo because of his playing level? You have an interesting way of reading me. I get on archo because he talks about things he has never experienced as if he is a strong authority on them without ever demonstrating relevant expertise. In fact, if archo had always...

Do consider the fact that more chops with heavy backspin will be below net height and need more effort for the looper to arc under said rule changes.

I am calm. That you repeatedly compare what I write to what Archo does is rude but since you don't want to apologize but continue to repeat it, I will just accept that that is what you do. I am not coaching 2400 players on what the changes to table tennis are. I am expressing my own opinions...

Yes, I do not believe that the game needs changes. I am just making the argument the way it is framed so that you can be clearer on what you are are assuming.

Topspin play had always been a part of TT, even with hardbat. Barna was not a chopper. If you look at videos in the 50s, the first guy who used inverted hardly looped to win the WC. When I say looping became more popular, I really mean speed gluing and the Chinese adoption of the dual winged...

I don't substantially disagree with any of this but just like some choppers and pips players liked their increased consistency with the new ball even if they disliked Thierry spin reversal, there may be something we are missing that favors the defender in practice. At the highest levels...

Okay. In other words, you must be 2800 to have opinions about table tennis. If not, you are a know it all trying to speak about things you do not understand.

No, because you said that I criticize Archo for doing what I am doing now. I am not a high level player (max rating USATT 2078) so what about my post infers that I am even speaking from the perspective of a high level player? I am presenting my own opinion. I can't even speak for 2400...

Shuki, for one, played in a club where they actually raised the net heights to test the change. I am venturing an opinion just as I have a right to, an opinion which I prefaced with the pronoun "I" to show that it is an opinion. Sometimes, I find it curious how you get rude out of nowhere over...

IT's called the Yasaka Sweden Extra now.

To improve the length and quality of points and of the rallies.

BTW, to stick to the original thread, I don't think that changing the net height will be as big a deal as some make out and I take the view of Jorgen Persson that at some point, we need to stop changing equipment and look at other things if we want to slow the game down.

I guess you can decide whether your argument has merit as many of the styles you listed take advantage of pips, including hardbat and traditional Seemiller. I do not agree that pips should be banned outright, but pips are not allowed to be used in under 10 ( or is it a higher age) tournaments...

I was that kind of player for a while and in some ways I still am so I know exactly what you mean. But I think it is just better to say that you play better vs what you practice against and what you understand. I understand why people complain about pips. At every level, you have to practice...