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I personally like it for the following reasons: 1) Very good at the short game, soft touch is super easy. With that said, with the appropriate rubbers it's not exactly difficult with the Viscaria either. 2) When you loop it hard and do it right, it creates a really satisfying catapult effect...

Has anyone tried Viscaria with H3 on the BH? My feelings for H3 on the BH has really turned a 180 since I initially used it. I've really come to appreciate the massive spin advantage. I might glue a sheet onto my FZD ALC and compare it since it's got D09c on the BH side. Both sides are red, but...

It's not mushy if you activate the blade, then it has a nice cracking sound and makes a beautiful arc with great catapult.

Cutting it pretty close there with Kaufmann 😳

I'd like to see @Gozo Aruna smashing that one you looped for a winner 😆

Hmm, IDK, but flights to China is pretty cheap right now. You can get them round trip from California for ~$1000. For people living in the bay area where many of these kids are from that's chump change. Sid Naresh delayed enrollment to UC Berkeley to pursue his TT career, which I'm sure...

Great job by Sid Naresh taking a set off of LSD yesterday! I'm actually surprised by how many players team USA sent to this tournament. I guess it's a nice experience for the youngsters, Jessica Reyes and Sid Naresh definitely got the best luck on the team, getting to play SYS and LSD...

That video doesn't say his name, but it did mention the club he plays for and through that I was able to find his name which is Zhu Zhenyu. Here's another video of him playing. Apparently he used to be a member of the August 1st team (as was Liu Guoliang, Wang Hao, and Fan Zhendong)...

I treat it more as an amateur vs. pros event lol. It was great watching local players like Hwan Bae going up against WCQ and almost taking a set, or Zhang Xiangjing going up against a WTT regular like Nick Lum!

Exactly, has to be outside factor. Someone sat on it or stood on it or dropped something heavy on it.

I haven't watched Zong Geman play much, but it was puzzling watching her play vs. Kaufmann. Zong's opening loops were exclusively to the middle of the table, there was literally zero variation, and in both BH openings and rallies I'm not sure I saw once where she hit a BH down the line shot to...

No, I'll be on the east coast during that time unfortunately.

Sorry, I didn't remember it quite right. I went back and watched his video again, he actually said that Kiri doesn't vary too much in terms of "good" vs. "bad", so wood quality isn't a major factor. He said that he asked some TT blade factories as well as some equipment enthusiasts who make...

On a Chinese bilibili channel, this one reviewer/vendor said he talked to some blade makers, and they think besides using a higher quality wood (he asserts that high quality wood is in shorter supply than before) that the golden Vis also uses an extra glue layer with the composite layer. To...

My new stroke is now fairly good, at least in practice. Consistent, powerful, more topspin and less sidespin. I'm still tinkering with the weight transfer though. I have tried a straight right to left weight transfer, that didn't work due to a lack of rotation. I then tried adding rotation...

I gotta say, Faraji's choing is not making a fan out of me. It's one thing to cho like Harimoto, it's quite another to cho so much after an edge/net ball. Last match vs the Taiwanese kid I thought was rather disrespectful, choing so much after winning the match off of 2 straight net/edge points...

Yes that's right, the 2nd line from the top, so the 2nd lowest position. You can actually lower the robot even lower than the top line, so it does have the advantage there. So how did you get your retrofit? I think that'd be an interesting addition to the Powerpong/Amicus. As for the position...

Anyhow, I made some more precise measurements. From the table to the middle of the ball would be ~235mm. Which is slightly below (~10mm) where the middle of the ball would be when it hits the top deflector on my Amicus Prime when set to the middle red line.

Yes, that was one of my concerns as well. You can of course make the launch point higher by putting something beneath the robot, but not lower. With that said, I've found that to be less of a concern over time. When I first got the Amicus Prime, I actually had it on the lowest possible setting...

The Amicus Prime and the Powerpong have a small keyfob sized Bluetooth controller. It's super useful and I hope pongbot adds it too. I could hold that in my left hand and start/stop the drill whenever I want. With the pongbot I have to run to the Epad or my tablet and hit stop while the robot...