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What is the 'Synergy' metric intended to describe? Is it the hardness of the blade? Or is it the hardness of the rubbers that should be used with the blade?

You should specify a desired weight for your blade especially if you're paying around $150 for it. You may get some outlier thats too heavy or too light for your taste. I got a 78g Acoustic that I wish was heavier (I ended up putting lead tape around the edge to get a bit more stability). If I...

Thanks for the update and for sharing your experience. I bought a sheet of Rxton 3 Blue during the aliexpress sale. How do you think it would play on flexible soft outer blades? I was going to try it on either a Nittaku Acoustic or Sanwei Fextra as a BH rubber but now am thinking that might not...

You're right. I meant to say that we want contact at peak velocity, not acceleration. However the point still stands that to get peak velocity then we want to accelerate the racket at some point in time well after the end of the backswing. I think maximum velocity is the probably biggest factor...

You're 100% right about this. If power is generated at a singular moment in time from the very back of the backswing to bring the arm and paddle forward, then that's how it would play out. However, in a properly executed FH stroke, the power is ideally applied after forward rotation has...

I don't think that's the whole story either. Most of the power coming from the forehand drive is coming from the legs, hips, and transferred through to the upper body (as Dr. Evil described above). The arm muscles contribute little power on their own in comparison, and power efficiency of the...

I actually just keep a simple spreadsheet on my phone tracking hours played. This seems pretty simple at first, but the big question is what constitutes an hour of play. If I'm just practicing forehands for an hour, then clearly I can increase my FH rubber age by one hour and I keep my BH...

Where did you get that info from? Is it listed somewhere or your personal impressions from handling them? I bought a sheet of blue to use as a backhand rubber but 51-52 might be a bit too hard of a sponge for that. Any idea how it responds to boosting?

It's a little bit easier to see in this clip below between #3 style (labeled for beginner-intermediate level) and #4 style (labeled for advanced level): For #4, he seems to be pulling back his scapulae and twisting his body like he suggests in the first video, and his arm fully straightens...

Not sure if this is exactly what you're referring to but, according this coach, it's just a faster backswing due to decreased rotational radius: (Turn on subtitles)

Thanks for the heads-up. G-1 is on the top of my list of non-Chinese FH rubber to try in the future. I live in Vietnam and luckily Nittaku products retail for 15-25% less than everywhere else (was able to pick up my Acoustic here for $120 for example). G-1 retail is $35. From what I gather...

I'll try to answer all your questions in order since you've got quite a few in your post. I'm not an equipment expert compared to a lot of these guys here. But, I was in your position about 6 months ago when I bought my Acoustic, and have read a lot about equipment since then, bought a couple...

If you want a pretty detailed look at some 5-plys that include Korbel and Acoustic, here is some good reading: https://ttgearlab.com/2017/10/16/classic-5-ply-wood-blades-comparison/ Maybe this will help your purchasing decision on your wife's blade, if you are determined to get a carbon blade...

That chart listing the 50cm bounce test seems kinda off to me for a few. G-1 at 30cm and somewhat close to T05 doesn't track with my reality (having experienced both). These guys below have videos of bounce tests and found the 50cm bounce of G-1 to be 22cm and T05 at 30cm. This makes more...

From what I've gathered from reading people's reviews, the outer layer carbon Acoustic feels and plays different enough from the all-wood that the biggest similarity between the two is in name rather than function. In other words, if you were considering the 5-ply, the Acoustic Carbon is...

That's what I was wondering. From reading the descriptions of Rozena (linear, low catapult, does everything good enough) it sounds like the description of intro tensor rubber like Xiom Vega Intro or Nittaku Factive. How different is Rozena from these rubbers or even cheaper Chinese tension style...

The atmosphere in T League is really on a different level when it comes to crowd noise and emotionality coming from the players. I've been to MMA events in Japan (PRIDE FC) that were much more subdued than that. I personally appreciate this sort of thing in the table tennis world. There are...

Dang that sucks. I guess it makes sense that buyers for Mercury 2 are value minded beginners looking for something easy to use. But the boosted medium is so nice, I was getting really curious about the potential of the boosted hard sponge. On a more positive note, I'm really starting to like...

Try Mercury 2 medium boosted for your BH. Try two layers of baby oil or one layer of Seamoon. You'd be surprised out much performance you can get out of one of the cheapest rubbers available.

I think maybe something is being lost in translation here since I didn't sense any intent on being offensive on Duke's part. English doesn't appear to be your native language so maybe there was a miscommunication somewhere. It's already difficult enough to sense a person's tone and demeanor over...