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Can confirm the dome behavior is same for non-Neo as well, and I haven't noticed it affecting the play characteristics of H3 either. I'm not sensitive to speed though, so it could be 5% slower for all I know LOL.

@victormanriquey The booster had worn out on that H3N, so it wasn't bouncy almost at all. Maybe it'd be different if it had a lot of booster left. The rubber was also a little old and maybe a bit dead, although judging by the incoming quality of the owner's shots I wouldn't say so for sure...

Dignics 05 felt almost identical to me, but that's just what I heard. Don't believe everything you hear I guess!

I've been told Tenergy 19 is "Like G-1 but better".

+1 for this. I find the technical framework for the backhand very confusing; I don't really understand how most of the leg and body motions transfer energy into the ball or if they have some other function.

Hybrid MK or Bluegrip S1 was recommended to me by an expert player who has played me. I've tried Hybrid MK and it was really comfortable to play with, I felt it was slightly slow so it may have been a little worn out. Didn't try for really long, though. I had Jupiter 3 Asia 38A on backhand...

@victormanriquey I tried VIS+H3N National 42A and I found it easy to control and the top-end spin quality wasn't any lower than with inner blades, but with another VIS+D05 the low-speed bounciness is maybe too much for me. It's not that I can't control it at all, but I don't get any benefit...

Those mid-tier players complain they can't do strokes in real games like they do in practice, and even in practice they occasionally lose sets to me with narrow margins for the shots. Balls barely going out or netting. I gave one VIS + Dignics user my Fextra inner + Target setup to loop chop...

Market perception and spending ability has a lot to do with it. Chinese budget rubbers are very popular in a lot of S.E Asia and India. Even the Indian and Pakistani players around here who can afford more expensive models will still be using Chinese more budget-oriented models. Players in...

Maybe that could be one explanation for why people feel like BTY's Viscaria derivatives like FZD still feel very different from all the others even if they "should" be the same? All made in the same batch then picked out differently.

The lower tier players here already are using generally expensive and high-end equipment relatively. Things like Rasanter, Fastarc and Rozena. You don't really find non-hobbyists using anything like Mercury or AK47, the cheapest I've seen must be Target and Battle 2. Usually paired with 5ply...

How expensive do you think BTY blades would be if they didn't cut corners like that? :O

Not sure if H3/H8 on backhand will die out on the amateur circuit for a good while. It's true they're not as good for the bang-bang kind of backhand game, but that's not how everyone plays or needs to play at a lot of levels. Honestly you can say the same for a lot of rubbers which are...

Experimental results I've seen suggest under 1ms for fairly low speed impacts. Maybe it's higher in higher speed impacts that are really tangential. Either way might as well be instant. You only see the compression in ultra high speed footage slowed down thousands of times. I'm gonna get flamed...

Fextra 7 works quite well with Battle 2. I don't imagine why it wouldn't work with H3.

There's no actual conversion that you can just use for TT sponges. Charts like that are industry guidelines for measuring uniform, thick and relatively non-linear objects, so not TT sponges. The topsheet interacting with the sponge also complicates it a lot and real-world measurements will...

Sure, next time I'll film a few serious sets. It won't be very entertaining but fine. :) My partner played A LOT better later in the day vs some higher level players who pushed him a bit so maybe he can handle some opening attacks as well. Those guys don't fuck around and will just attack all...

These are the dogshit serves I need to use vs lower level players. We played a bit "seriously" later and I think he had a 100% failure rate on receive. Score something like 11-2 just because of that. I'm pushing his serves mostly because I find it very difficult to keep it low and short so it's...

I don't really understand this. With a more flexible blade, you will need to put in more power to deflect the sponge a given amount. How does it make it easier to engage?

Knee feeling funny lately, I think I have a tight muscle or tendon or something. Have had very similar symptoms in other body parts. I'm not sure I have anything that's not tight as hell lol... Not worried about it but I'll need to skip a session or two and do some work on it. It got a lot...