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In case anyone wanted an English translation since this is a English language forum; google translates the above to: "Hello again, as you know Sergio's job is to make us happy with his shovels. I have realized that he does not work to earn money or do business. His greatest hope is to make us...

The important thing to know is, there should be no stress on the issue. Do some training, the regular stuff that everyone does for training, but also do some serve and receive drills. If you do a certain amount of training and can't get the feel for the rubber, then it is time to pull it off...

Is there a reason you want to use a rubber that you seem to be unable to use? Why not use something you already are able to use?

It doesn't matter what you use. All you want to do is get the wood back to the original thickness. You could do that by pressing the side that is bulging against a table. Once the top ply is flat, then the glue on the edge to make it so the wood does not splinter in the future. The real...

This happens. Don't worry about it. Take something like a pliers or, as BB said, a vice to press the wood back to the original thickness. Put some wood glue on the edge over the ding. And don't worry about it. Water Based glue for TT rubbers will not do anything for that ding. The edge...

Shhhhh....you will give away the secret about how you find him so easily.

I am interested to hear how it plays after boosting. The image of the rubber band is imperfect. The amount of rubber and the quality of the rubber used is vastly different. And the amount you would stretch a rubber band for failure and the amount a TT rubber is stretched but the tangential...

Just like an old rubberband that does not stretch any more and when you try to stretch it, instead, it breaks, when the rubber molecules have oxidized and lost their elasticity, I am not sure you can get the rubber to have elasticity again. But, nothing bad will come of trying.

When rubber is old, it loses elasticity. Elasticity helps with what we are using a rubber for in Table Tennis. The ball sinks into the topsheet and sponge. The topsheet grabs the ball. And the ball sinks into the sponge it stretches and distorts the topsheet. When the topsheet rebounds it...

I have this really nice PVA sponge that I used to use with a small amount of water. I like it. It works really well. But what I like even more is just a small amount of water on my hand and to clean the topsheet with my hand. Your hand, with a tiny bit of water, can really get a lot more off...

As I said, my comment was not actually about CW. It was about alarming behavior and, perhaps, what some people will do to try and win.

Many of those rubbers would be good. What happens when you train with one particular rubber is you end up adjusting your technique a little to the rubber. But in the end, there are rubbers you will put on that make you feel "I love this rubber" and others where you will not feel that...

I am not condoning this and I don't know if this was the case for Chen Weixing, but I have seen players use antics like that to mess with the mental focus of the opponent. After alarming and disarming behavior like that, some players have a harder time concentrating and staying focused.

This is the actual way to get the exact, perfect, optimal rubber for your backhand: 1) Make a cue card for each rubber. Make all cards the same size. 2) Pin all cue cards to a dart board. 3) Find a friend who you know to be very bad at darts. 4) Get said friend very...

This is a complex question to answer. Wang Hao was mentally very strong until he wasn't. He came in second in World Table Tennis Championships several times. He did win in 2009 but he came in second many times. Ma Lin was also mentally strong for most of his career but he also never won a...

If you practice with YOUR RACKET, and you train with your racket, and you do what you can do with your racket, why would you compare how you play against them while using something you only use when you play them. If you are using a crappy office racket while playing them and all of your...

Some of this is about learning to handle what they are throwing at you. Playing vs that flat style till you get used to approaches that allow you to handle those dead shots and sort out what makes it harder for those guys to give those easy returns would be important. But, since what you are...

I know people who like the handle sealed. I just wanted the OP to know that some people like that and some people are like me and don't. I like my rackets looking beat to hell and dirty like they have been in combat. But I also know people who like their blades to stay looking fresh, clean...

When you have played with it for a while and have gotten used to it, you should tell us how it feels to you since you will be using it.