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A post appropriate of your forum status, I guess. Keep it up, high quality stuff.

It's a tough game this one. It's difficult enough that you can't even just go slower and still always keep the ball in play; even at turtle pace right over the table there will come something that will be 5% different and make you miss! Maybe not in 10 balls, or 100, but it will. Life would be...

My quads were still a bit stiff from the last session. Not injured or painful, just like when you start going to the gym again. Maybe that shifted more load to the back and glute. Did yours happen as a result of the leg injury, or because the leg injury made you compensate with other muscles...

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: Playing too hard these last days after a big break has made me break my ass; specifically my right glute and the very right lower back is pretty sore on the step and twist. 😅 It is getting better, but it's not exactly something I want to repeat. Doing some plank...

Personally I'm going to save my money and instead of buying fancy special equipment that is 1% better use that money on coaching. At most people's level that will be a higher ratio of benefit to cost.

It's so much less tacky than I expected and have seen before, even compared to a 2 years old regular H3 I tried, that it must be intentional. Maybe western market H3 is now less tacky to suit western player's games better? It should add some spin and speed when there is less hysteresis from the...

Hit a bit today at another club. Getting my ass handed to me by seniors using rubber so old it's basically antispin, because I'm not yet in my groove again. Almost no spin on my serves either. Coach was coaching some teenagers and asked me to play some games with them, they beat me but I did...

Can confirm, my H3 Neo I bought literally yesterday has barely any tack compared to the 729FX I bought some 7-8 years ago.

Just from a kinetics standpoint, it might play similarly in the short game despite the harder sponge because sponges are progressive springs with probably some hysteresis. It might respond very similar to small inputs, perhaps having an almost identical linear region in the small forces, but...

One thing I read in "Ultimate Speed Secrets", about motorsport: There was a driver who was always thinking about crashing. It didn't help that his mechanics kept saying "Don't worry, if you crash it, we can fix it". He kept looking at the outside wall on corner exits, hoping not to crash into...

Well, I decided to go for the SPW with H3 Neo and Focus 3. Props to OOAK for being able to get the products ready for same-day pickup.

10% as serious as the average social game.

Nobody's really asking the question if specially tuned fancy professional competition equipment is even ideal for amateurs or even semi-pros. Most people might just be paying 4-5x more for less ideal parameters. I find it hard to believe minor changes will result in an objectively better part...

@Boogar Yep, I've been in SA for a while. I went to a club today and hit a bit in the freeplay casuals. Level is quite low among the seniors and whatnot who can play during daytime hours on a workday (lol), but it's just right for me. Easy balls to build some consistency off. Kind of inbetween...

Thanks, I guess it is decided. Build quality looks good on the SPW, and a lot of people seem to have moved up from an Allround Evolution to SPW, which is my case as well. I guess I will go with my original plan and the slightly faster blade and then forget about it for a few months and just...

Yeah, probably. I will take Carl's word on the FX-P over S, I was originally drawn to the P anyway. H3 is cheap, so I guess it is not a big loss to use it for a while and just make my own verdict on it. I didn't think I would be ready for an OFF- blade, but in truth the Evolution was a bit slow...

To do that, I would need to play first. To play first, I would need to get a setup. 😅 I am probably worse now. I haven't really played since about 2018. I don't think all the bad habits have undone themselves just like that. With any luck, perhaps someone will borrow me their setup for a...

Really. I was going for FX-S because I was afraid FX-P would be too fast on the backhand and just fly out every time. My original pick was FX-P, though, but I read more into it and decided on FX-S. So perhaps it's more of a thing for advanced players who can sink the ball more. The reasoning...

Oh no, saying that in an EJ discussion is like giving out a license to kill. I'll stick to my original idea then. Use that for a while, because invariably everything will feel off for the first half a year or whatever. Then once the rubbers start to wear out I'll think about it more. My only...

It was difficult for me to play last year, but now it's just down to finding people and a place. There is a decent looking place relatively near me, but I still need to go stake it out to see if anyone is interested in playing with a sucky beginner. If I can keep playing, I will probably keep...