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Will be at the NYISC tournament tomorrow - will definitely see 42andbackpains. Can Carl make a special guest appearance?

He also pays many of them too, including the coaches who he says tell him he has good serves.

I fully agree. In fact, I like to say that if you don't have a good stroke, don't teach it. I have seen 2400 players get help on a specific stroke from a 1500 player because that 1500 player had excellent technique that was taught to them by a 2700 player (second or third hand but you get the...

I used to be a ball slapper - in fact, the juniors I play against used to make fun of my forehand. They had all these spinny loops and I would slap the ball with my blocks. Then the time came when it was too hard to slap spinny loops. It's been hard trying to learn to counterloop with crappy...

When you learn as an adult as after playing basement for years as a kid, your game has to be crap in one way or another - just saying.

As you get better, you will find that you can create a similar trajectory with any rubber - as loops become more advanced, they tend to have more sidespin or corkscrew spin anyway and this keeps the loop at relatively the same height. Also loop drives tend to have different arcs, but there is...

5 out of 5 rating for Big Dipper This is truly an excellent rubber. I use it in the softest sponge available though I have tried the harder sponges and believe those will appeal to people looking for something more on the hard sponged Chinese end of the spectrum. It's an interesting mix of a...

"Is that Par Gerrell over there?" Good stuff!

He lives in the right country for all these blades...

While you do that, I would like to bring back... the ball whacker... ball slapper... ball whatever!

My matching pair of Yasaka Extras with Big Dipper 38 deg on both FH and BH. Of course, I have other blades, but since I pretend to be anti-EJing, they will remain hidden for now. And I am back in the cheap setups range with an under $85 setup, which is why I can have two no problem!

Thanks, Paul. So I presume ultimately, you will be using the Powerspin Carbon as your main blade (or all that testing will be just for creating a commercial blade that you don't use, which is possible but kinda weird)?

Wow... I was scared for a second that you were going to show me a sheet of Hurricane.... but that is almost as frightening....

Not your fault at all - I brought in an ALC blade into an all wood blade thread.

Is the Powerspin Carbon what he uses and simply a Stratus Carbon with a different handle, or an entirely new blade? Anyways, all this can wait until the review videos are up, I guess. Would like to know the wood used in the plies as well if possible.

Baal combines the most evil blade in the universe with one of the two most evil rubbers in the universe... what gives...

It's likely manufacturer/process dependent. When you outsource, the processes by which the blades get created may have different signatures.

Limba blades as part of all wood tend to be cheap but it depends on the speed and brand. Cheapest I bought was Dawei Quattro Limba but the balance is not as good as the feel. I play with Chinese rubbers often as well (Big Dipper), but I have never liked hard woods because I like the feeling of...

Tim Boll has a pretty quick bat, huh.... Nice find.