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(Reads previous post with puzzled look - are people really this ridiculous...:confused:) (Smiles...:)) (Recognizes a lost cause when he sees one...:D) (Goes off to prepare for tomorrow's tournament drive :cool:)

I have replaced my Tenergy 05 with Yinhe Big Dipper 38 deg sponge and have few complaints. Won't work for everyone but works for me.

Practice and play against Anti and learn to read the ball better. Usually, generating topspin is always your friend as it produces a higher ball for you to attack. But if you don't practice against it, the theory is good, but doesn't help you get better.

OK, TareqPhoto. Let's try again. The blade I use now costs $60 (Tibhar Samsonov Force Pro). The most expensive blade I have ever used cost $160 (Killerspin Titanium Carbon) and it cost me a key match when I was in the 1800s, after which I swore never to use it again. I used a $22 blade to...

Part of the problem is that the poor durability of the balls is not just about the rate at which they crack. They also start to wobble if hit hard enough. That for me is the biggest reason why the Chinese seamed balls (DHS, DFish and their many clones like Joola, TSP) need to just be fixed or...

Exactly. On the women's side for the 2014 team trials, do people remember that Mu Zi almost qualified, but failed to win her way in. Then the juniors who she beat on her way to the finals were selected over her. That's exactly how it will work here as well. It's very unlikely that those guys...

For people who boost and need that kind of speed, I don't know, but Big Dipper in 38 degrees is very similar to unboosted MX-P and is only $20. Give it a shot if you need something that plays very well, especially with the plastic ball. It's already heavily tuned so those who need more tuning...

The answer to this has changed over my short TT career. I would have to say today, it is Tibhar blades and Yinhe rubbers, though Donic, Giant Dragon and Joola helped a lot on the blades side, while Butterfly, Joola and Donic helped a lot on the rubbers side. The Tibhar 5 plies and 7 plies...

That describes me too - currently using the Samsonov Force Pro (7 ply limba ayous). With Big Dipper 38 deg thanks to you, I have left Tenergy and now have a setup under $100 that plays the way I like it to. The one thing I will say is that in 4 years, I have likely spent literally thousands of...

TareqPhoto, A blade is made of wood and composite materials. Trees are different, and therefore, the wood from that tree is different, but the type of wood is the same. Many different brands use the same kinds of woods to make blades. So for example, you may hear of a Butterfly Korbel and a...

Ttping85 says that limbs tends to spin more than koto on the extreme shots but Lori spins more in between.

TareqPhoto, You are like many smart people out there - you have dealt with many people who do not know what they are talking about, so you want to understand yourself, so you are doing your research. The problem is that some things in life are too complicated to research unless you have the...

Spin ain't coming back through that door... Just saying ...

He is probably asking to see how objective some of these websites are. Usually people like TareqPhoto clearly enjoy this kind of thing.

Unfortunately, my experience in blade-rubber dependency has found it mostly to be a bunch of hogwash except in some clear specialist cases. Anyone can adapt their game to suit specific setups and as long as people glue the rubber properly to give it enough spring in the case of inverted, they...

These trials are really for the players not named Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin. If the other players cannot win their way in, then their chances are much lower of getting in if the coaches have to select.

The price of running before walking... Aka refusing to trust.experts....

I think that saying what a blade is supposedly good or bad at makes little sense apart from a comparison to another blade. Same for rubbers.

Google "multiball table tennis".

Yes, amateurplayer, that is what I mean. Bego is just extending the concept to the whole setup with a different setup for playing style.