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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if the shot would go out with a fast rubber, it'd go out with a slow one too. Most amateur players just make large technical mistakes period, irregardless of equipment. Slow equipment can also suffer from a lack of control, due to requiring too much muscle power...

Serve both occasionally and be amazed at how insecure people can become on the receive.

I feel like if slower and less performant equipment was actually ideal for amateur performance, people would win more with FX, Sriver and Mark V than with Tenergy, Dignics and Zyre. The forums will swear that it is so, but not in my experience. Fiber blades also make everyone's shots just...

Axial k should be: k = (A*E) / L So maybe ((157*150) * (10000*0.05) / 6 = 1,962,500 N/mm For a 157x150mm blade face (Realistically you won't use the whole area though because the pressure is uneven), 6mm thickness and a cross grain compression elastic modulus of 5% of 10000 MPa that I just...

I haven't used D09c a lot, but my impression was that it's easy to brush with and make decent spin with, but making very dangerous shots is pretty similar to how it is with real tacky rubbers. It's not so different from modern H3 IMO. On the backhand especially I found it really difficult to...

This isn't medical advice so nobody should really listen to it, but: You need the right tool for the right job, and sometimes a really jammed up muscle has to be brutally beat into submission so it can relax and start to actually heal. Doing some lighthearted massage stuff might not do anything...

It's not the worst because I'm used to it, but it might put someone not used to it on the floor. :ROFLMAO: The annoying part is that I know more or less exactly what this is, and I know more or less exactly how to fix it; but I just can't get enough strength at the correct body postures to do...

No such thing as a "break in" as far as I know, but you should let the booster soak for at least a few hours before gluing. The recommendation by Haifu is 12-24 hours at NTP (So probably 20c and 1atm) but I've glued before that and it doesn't seem to influence it that much. It'll be soaked in by...

Yeah, I've noticed. 90%+ of players don't have a clue what their rating is. They only talk about what division or tournaments they play in and their winrate. Maybe that's more realistic anyway! Back still really stiff. I must have pinched something in my shoulder blade. I pinched the other...

It's supposed to be more accurate than USATT because it doesn't fluctuate as much. However it has initially less accuracy. So you end up with funny stuff like players who WOULD be rated 2100-2200 ending up at 1800-1900 for a while. I've seen plenty of 1200~ RC players who would give a 2200 USATT...

I don't understand how that relates to what I was talking about, though. I'm sure the knowledge and overall play level is more advanced in Japan, but from what I can tell, if you go to a typical club, it's not going to be that different. There will be the not so good players and the better...

@Takkyu_wa_inochi Well, in Australia, players who play in those kind of tournaments are National players. They're not really considered amateurs, although there is no semi-pro distinction in an official sense. They're not allowed to play in the amateur leagues, too high rating, but of course...

I mean, the guy we're talking about regularly beat 2800+ players. I feel like you'd be hard pressed to find an amateur anywhere who can do that. I doubt I'll be playing a TT tourney in Japan any time soon, but I'll make sure to if I do. :) I know the average level in Japan is something like...

The claim is that RC is 200 lower than USATT, but it seems more like 400 at least in the typical ranks. A few times 1800 USATT players have come to Victoria and been 3-0:d by 1100-1200 RC players. So the State players I'm talking about are probably on average 2000-2200 USATT or so. Of course...

Hm. So you reckon State League players are around 1400 USATT (which was my estimated highest level by forums)? They have rating central points around 1600-1900. The average is about 1000-1050. EDIT: Wait, you think amateur players in Japan would trash someone who had a highest world ranking of...

@Takkyu_wa_inochi Maybe it sucks, but Australian Division 1 and State League players can't return it (most of the time at all), so I'm really curious to see how it will be when it doesn't suck! I'm coaching some mid-division players how to serve pendulum once in a while. Maybe the Australian...

Just for future reference, but "putting the Chinese in the gas chamber" doesn't mean what it sounds like.

Ordered a DHS B2 and Loki W81 Inner. Too many blades for someone like me, but whatever, it's off season, I can EJ. When I was younger I had no choice due to lack of funds, but now I can justify it. My good deed is that I sell off my old gear to people who need it for very nice prices. I used...

My impression is that the durability of G-1 and R7 is simply just better than a lot of the newer ESN rubbers. They're also cheaper most of the time. That combined with the low wages in Japan would explain why people "still" use those. Of course most of it is just Japanese people being...

That's just an evolution of sponge design. The Battle 2 blue sponge is a lot like the DHS blue sponge; larger pores with slightly more variation. Of course some super minor surface tension from factory tuning in provincial and higher. My Super Select smelled like a fish market. I think the real...