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You really can't be asking people questions that can only be answered by your personal preferences and training.

I would just use Bluefire M1.

The only way to do thorough "research" is to test the rubbers yourself. Asking questions from people you have never seen play and whose playing styles or feeling is not like yours especially when you are not showing any evidence of your playing style or level tends not to work. You can always...

At the team event in the Chinese Nationals, yes.

Yes, but I think everyone has a spin level. I might play the same guy as Boogar and he might just be bothered by my spin and not by Boogar's. Or maybe not. For all Boogar knows, the guy might be used to 2200+ loops from somewhere that Boogar is not familiar with.

Sometimes, spin will not protect you against an opponent who knows what to do with high balls. IF he can smash them like you are describing, then it means that the balls are high. Different kinds of balls bother different kinds of players. IF you rally with high balls and heavy topspin, then...

The ball catching drill to test shoulder rotation. I might try to actively involve my left arm in my forehand loop to force shoulder rotation. The serve video - it is pretty long, but 5 minutes is enough to get the gist. I do use just about every serve I will use in a match except for my...

Taught a class for beginners, third session of four, this morning. Practiced afterwards, especially my serves. Served to a player under 1000 but with much higher level strokes. Tested various sidespin serves as I want to develop and play behind short sidespin serves more confidently. Will...

This is me playing the junior in a tournament match in August or so - pretend the second game didn't happen...

The guy plays the way I used to before I met Brett, only that he is a more talented blocker and pusher with better strokes and serves and spin reads than I had. Younger too, so it makes life easier. So when we play, I am usually the aggressor. But don't be fooled - he can put some heavy spin...

2250 would be at least top 150 or top 200 in England, possibly top 100 if you exclude foreigners. I would be somewhere in the top 500 -600 in England, possibly a bit higher based on the players I have played here who came for the NA Teams.

When I play matches like this, it makes me wish I was ten years younger when I started learning this and did't have this effing RA... I lost up 10-4 in the 5th vs the 2250 junior and I lost this one too...

I think his recovers fine- the racket position is a bit different from his serve return position, but he is facing the table. You can put the video in slow motion and see that when the ball bounces on the other side, he is ready to play the next shot. It can always be faster, and if he serves...

Was trying to find the last video you posted to see if my eyes were deceiving me or there was a difference in level of opposition but your game seems to have gone up at least a level or a level and a half. I would like to pretend you listened to my advice but it is never that easy. Maybe I...

Tylenol, What you are saying is reasonable but it also shows how stupid you are when it comes to trolls. Ah, you see how that last sentence gets you? You think that I am saying sense then I sat something that is ridiculous and it gets you going because you think I am serious when I am not and...

The kid with the best backhand in my club was already over 2000 when I gave him a ball with a metal string through the middle to improve his backhand brush spin. His backhand is amazingly spinny and he will always tell the story of how that tool helped him practice hitting the ball anywhere he...

I wish I was a memes guy. I would probably generate a new meme for every archo post that missed the point. This is an excellent example of Jugaad and I looking for sponges large enough for me to buy and try it!

Yesterday, went 1-4 in the league as the D/E player in Group1. Beat the F player but lost to everyone else. It was mildly frustrating but I took it as evidence that everyone else had done their homework but I hadn't completed mine. The bottom line is that I need to play the 2000+ players in...

Yes, I know it is all we can do, but we can always ask for more ;).

Don't replace archo...