I would love @SDC to chime in, he has much more practical experience than me. I just know the theory. My blade making never went anywhere. I failed to find correct veneers.
There is also manufacturing consistency and the fact that wood is not heterogenous material. I've played a bunch of different brands, and even Butterfly sucks when it comes to making stuff the same way every time. There was an experiment by one of the Chinese content creators picking a FZD ALC...
Doing this kind of ranking is a bit of an issue. HL5 can vibrate a lot but you have to put or receive a fair bit of power. If you are playing with someone who is not making any power, you will get less vibration on some of the blades. I do not know how quantify it, but the higher the gear...
Today my wrist was especially stiff. It was hard to play openups. Then I remember @NextLevel super peculiar warmup warmup routine... Laj was standing and swinging as if you was doing back hand. I mimicked that today trying to loosen up my wrist....
And it worked, it totally hecking worked...
welp, whenever talking about working with wood, handmade = imperfect :p
The fact something is made with machines, does not imply its worse quality. Most of the time, if someone gives attention, machine is better.
When serving contact the ball lower, the rule somebody suggested me is to contact the ball on the net height, it will make keep short serves shorter and the ball will be lower over the net in general.
After reading this thread, I was thinking: "Who in the right mind buys table tennis equipment on Vinted". For some reason, I decided to put my auctions there.
That is the most traffic I had with the stuff I tried to sell so far. 3 items I've been trying to dump, got sold in 10 minutes, a lot of...