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Wow, thanks for this brilliant analysis! I also really like Aruna's playing style and I usually root for him in matches. I watched this match live with Hugo Calderano and I was amazed how well he managed to come back. That's part of Aruna's tactics, for sure. But there's more than what you...

Here's my recommendation: Blade: 729 Green Goblin or 729 Rose or DHS Power G15. Don't get something with carbon in it if you're not advanced -- it will be way too fast and uncontrolled, and you won't feel the ball to get feedback on your technique. Ebony and rosewood (the wood used in blades I...

Dima is good enough to do brush strokes with anything though. The question is whether it's easy or hard to do brush strokes. Referencing a professional isn't making the case that it's easy, and it isn't refuting the case that it's hard. Also for the record he uses D09c on forehand and D05 on...

Never tried PG7X, sorry

Have any of you guys tried using blue sponge Hurricane 3 or Skyline rubbers on your backhand? If so, what was your experience? I am considering trying it, because my backhand is my stronger side. Usually I play with blue sponge on the forehand, since that's what everyone else does. But most...

Yes, thank you so much for sharing this experience -- I also found D09c to be bad for brush-looping. I feel like I have been going insane with everyone talking about how D09c is the best rubber in existence. With Chinese rubber, the throw angle is pretty low, so you can do a brush loop with an...

I think it will go well with Skyline 2, but I really like Skyline 2 so I am biased. I am also a penholder, and Skyline series was made for penholders (Hurricane series was made for handshake players). Skyline 2 is definitely spinnier than Hurricane 3, and it offers more control in the short...

I've tried both and honestly they're both great. PG7 pairs well with sticky rubbers and gives lots of opportunity for creating heavy spin. Still, you can still hit the ball quite hard. My brother uses 729 Yellow ALC with pips on the backhand. Spin generation with the yellow ALC is harder, but...

Use your legs more instead of your arm/shoulder -- crouch down and think about touching your elbow to your knee before your stroke. You really need to brush the ball upwards instead of forwards. The most crucial point, though: your racket cannot be angled down, not even a little bit. Your...

Based on my understanding of physics... It should be possible to create (roughly) the same shape of arc as a very spinny ball, but with only moderate spin. A constant downward force (such as gravity) will produce a parabolic arc. Arcs that come from the Magnus effect are approximately parabolic...

Yeah that might be a more precise term, because it doesn't factor in the angle and trajectory of the swing. But for any fixed swing, the throw angle for hybrid rubbers is going to be very high compared to Chinese rubbers. Yeah that's true. But I think of this as overcompensation / consciously...

Shouldn't this mean that tacky Chinese rubbers have an incredibly high throw angle? But they don't...

I mean making a loop when the ball has already gone below the surface the table. Taking the ball close to the floor, for instance. The stability of this shot is lower with a high-throw rubber, just as the stability of flicking underspin is lower with a low-throw rubber. Yeah it's a fuzzy...

But surely you must acknowledge that having a high throw angle helps you play over the table against underspin. And I imagine you don't do a lot of looping from below the table, because this is hard to do with high-throw rubber. Throw angle definitely affects playing style subconsciously, by...

This might be true in principle, but it is certainly not true in practice. Certain strokes will be more natural with a high throw rubber, and certain other strokes will be more natural with a low throw rubber. Playing the same stroke with a different rubber is not as simple as just opening or...

I encourage you to go back and carefully read what I said regarding gravity vs Magnus effect. I was talking about high throw angle rubbers, not non-tacky rubbers. High throw angle rubbers take advantage of the arc created by gravity. It is also entirely possible for them to ALSO take advantage...

Also, for what it's worth, I think you might also consider Skyline 2. It's typically used by penholders, but it has some desirable properties that I think one misses with Hurricane. For example, with Hurricane you need to make prolonged contact with the ball using a big stroke in order to hit...

I play with unboosted Chinese rubber and it doesn't feel dead on hard shots. You just need to brush the ball to get some speed -- it will be dead if you flat hit, but it's very elastic when you hit the ball at a sharp angle. Your attacking shots need to have some degree of spin in them. But...

Yes you can certainly continue to use D09c for a long time -- it doesn't tear or break or anything. But it's quite different from the performance you get right out of the package and the throw angle is very high. It feels very strange to me. I've never tried it but there's a player at my club...