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I think I can make a good reply here because I used a 6 ply (DIY 1 extra layer of wood) for quite a while and only stopped when I switched shakehand/penhold. With the added layer it was about 6.1mm thick. In my case it was a Korbel which I bought 2nd hand. Someone else had added a layer of...

Not to be petty, but it looks to me that Brs did answer the question in his initial response, which was how does a 9% increase in sales result in 50% increase in profit. As an aside, I started looking for alternative to Butterfly D64 because several people commented to me that it was a "waste"...

It sounds like you may have got nose out of joint with the coach and general "elders of the club". You are in a match, as part of the tournament, and then you are moved? Or were you playing with the guy as a practice? The latter is understandable - the former seems very petty as others have...

If Stiga blades had a magical quality, which was worth preserving (for performance reasons), wouldn't more professionals be using them? I read on the Stiga website that they are the official supplier for the Chinese National Team but am not sure if this is still true. Table Tennis Gan referred...

People talk about the "Stiga feel". How likely is it that the fragility of these blades is a consequences of rational decisions made to preserve this "feel"? Do Stiga blade use epoxy? Does anyone know? Is this "feel" thing real? Secondly, about the lack of refinement amongst details like handle...

An innocent mistake involving metrics. Heh-heh.

I noticed recently that Double Fish also have a Liu Shi Wen blade. I don't know anything about it though.

Thanks for the great video. It's nice to see a lot of the different places one can play. Your main idea about "what they're doing doing different" is the intensive (multiball) training? Anything else? How do the feel the language barrier impacts the experience? In terms of, for example, getting...

Em Rat Thich's key contribution to online ping pong comes from his knowledge of the Chinese language (I have never seen him write in Chinese, but it is a reasonable assumption that he knows it well). This means that he can share materials from the Chinese and East Asian web to the wider world...