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Butterfly Impartial XS. Very very fast and spinny; pretty close to an inverted rubber (as far as SP's go) so a good transition rubber.

Sporting events are being cancelled all over the place. It would be the height or irresponsibility if the Olympics were to still go ahead and I believe it will almost certainly be cancelled.

When my daughter started playing (at about age 6) I bought her this blade which I currently pair up with Palio AK47 soft sponge version rubbers. https://bribartt.co.uk/product/yinhe-cn1-junior-soft-carbon-table-tennis-blade/

I had a similar sort of idea a few years back: a rubber that plays like an attaching inverted rubber when the angle of contact with the ball if such that you're doing a topspin stroke, but when you play with the opposite angle (i.e a chopping motion) it plays more like a defensive / anti-spin...

Mainly a cost issue. I can get a reasonable discount on Donic products through a Donic distributors' affiliation to my club, so it makes sense in the long term to use Donic rubbers rather than those of another brand. I also play with a Donic blade and my OCD would prefer that I had Donic rubbers...

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I was thinking perhaps the Acuda S1 would be the closest match to Rakza 7.

Jonathan Thimon plays short pips on both sides, I believe. Plays to a high (world ranked) level.

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Trying to locate this blade in flared handle but I think it has been discontinued. Any ideas? Thanks Stuart

Looks like they copied some of the design of the Donic Dotec blades.

Can anyone with experience of both give me some thoughts on how the stiga series of blades compares to the Butterfly Timo Boll ALC. Which of the carbonado series would be closest to the alc, or are they all very different to it? Thanks

Seems to be a trend with the more modern (more spinny) short pimples having softer sponge compared to modern inverted rubbers.I’m curious as to why the trend seems to be almost exclusively in the direction of softer sponges which – to me – seem to lack power compared to the much firmer sponges...

Hi Andy, just confirming the blade and rubbers have arrived! Cheers Stuart

I 100% take your point on this, and he will carry on using inverted for now. But what is interesting is that even though we're talking about using SP's, we're still viewing the use of SP's "through the lense" of double inverted play in the sense that the "proper" stroke is deemed to be an...

When I say I'm thinking of SP, what I meant was a very spinney (almost inverted like) SP. Something like what Mattias Falck uses where it seems that you play pretty much the same sort of stroke as you would with an inverted, but you just have the blade face a bit more open. I wasn't really...

Of course I would love my son to become a professional TT player. But aside from that I just want my son to reach the highest level that he possibly can. The dilemma is does he do that by sticking with inverted (which is potentially not the most natural fit) or does he switch to SP (which might...

That's a very good point; he doesn't have access to a coach that is a specialist in SP, so even if SP's might be more of a natural fit for him, the level of coaching in how to use then wouldn't be as good as it would be with inverted. I'll keep him on the inverted for the time being and we'll...

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My son (10 years old) has been playing table tennis for about 18 months and receiving relatively regular coaching for about the last year. His game has come on a lot, but the main problem with his game is that he gives away too many points on unforced errors, especially because he has a real...

Agree that the SP's have some weaknesses compared to inverted...but all rubbers are a trade off and do some things better and some things worse than other rubber types. That's why I say a fast and spinny SP like the one Mattias uses; something that is relatively close to an inverted as far as...