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There was a recent Bilibili video of 4 pretty high level players doing a blind test of commercial, provincial, and national H3's, and the results were interesting. The rubbers were each boosted with 1 layer of Haifu Black. All 4 of them thought the provincial was the worst, and marked it as...

So in the excitement of watching Sora's thunderous attacks recently, I bought a couple sheets of Zyre03, which should arrive in a couple days. I plan to put it on the BH of my FZD ALC. I think I'll keep the H3 on the FH side for now, though I'm tempted to just make a full Sora setup with a...

You won't believe what happened! He's a higher level player and while we train together relatively often, in the ~3 years I've known him I'd never beaten him in a match before. I gave him the blade today and we had a training session, and then we had a practice match at the end. For the first...

I don't think those are gonna be made anymore. According to the Loki Germany guy Loki is no longer gonna allow custom made rubbers like red topsheet/blue sponge combo.

Got my R9 package, OS 37.5 x2, OS40.5, and BS 40.5. They averaged to just $17 per sheet everything included, so thought I'd give the 40.5s a try. The LGY ALC is for a club mate, he's probably gonna glue his Zyres on it and I'll give it a try as well!

I'd compare the R9 to H3 38, the H3 37 feels like a completely different rubber, much slower and more mushy. I'd compare R7 to a more crisp H3 37. They're more similar in ball quality, but the R7 is not as mushy. It's both a plus and a minus. It makes typical play a lot easier, but it doesn't...

Yes I tested it, it's got a red-orange cake sponge similar to LAC and H8-80, and doesn't have the dense feeling of H3-20 or the Rxton 9 sponge. Idk about slower than H8-80, neither is what I'd call fast, but I can't say for sure since it's been years since I've used a H8-80. I boosted the R7...

I'd recommend shorter, tighter shorts. When I wear longer, looser shorts I tend to hit the shorts when I'm loading up for a BH stroke sometimes. Even a tiny brush against your shorts can throw off the timing. I'd wear them sometimes for practice, but for match play I always wear shorter, tighter...

One of my clubmates used the Lind blade for a while, it's indeed a pretty outer feeling inner blade, but at least the one he had was fairly head heavy and very fast when hit hard. In that respect it's still got some of the non-linear response of inner blades.

I think the Rxton 7 37 is more of a direct analogue to H8-80 37. Rxton 9 37.5 has more of a H3 OS feel, except a bit easier to use.

Right, here's the longer video showing 3 separate flashes consecutively on reddit. LYJ looks frustrated so I doubt he was involved. I'd like to give those kids the benefit of the doubt as well, looks like they were taking pics with the flash in between points as well so they probably just don't...

Technically it's a fault on you, so point for the opponent, but that's not even called on the pro level. You'll see that from time to time, like someone choing or apologizing before the point was actually over, but I've never seen it called.

Sure looks like it. Looks like two of the younger Taiwanese players took turns to distract Sora.

Yes, some of them would be killed for sure, but some would force a poor return and some would win a point outright if your opponent is not expecting it. And as @NextLevel and @Tyce point out, a skill doesn't have to win you many points to be useful. To expand on what @Tyce said, a skill's...

I don't understand why more people don't play like WMY. Just attack the choppers. You can conserve some energy on the really good chops and push those back, but your default shot should be to attack, not to push. When you loop all over the table, it's hard for a chopper to keep all the chops...

So I've been practicing starting my BH swing with my elbow further back this week, and it's working super well! I had a lot of robot practices, and then yesterday went to the club and did some random FH/BH practices. The guy I was hitting with was a much lower level player, he couldn't really...

Master is a strong word, you don't really need to master anything at my level, for example, and I sure haven't mastered anything. With that said, what do you do with short no spin serves if not push it? That's a pretty common service at any level but especially at lower levels, and pushing is...

Damn, surprised by how close LYJ kept it. I'm gonna get a sheet of Zyre to try it out lol.

Sure, I recorded a few pushes to give you a general idea. I included the off the bounce push vs topspin as well but that's not one I use very often, the other two I do though. Of course, quality is higher than in actual games since I know what's coming. During games I usually focus more on...

Pushing no spin will sacrifice some spin usually, and pushing topspin will sacrifice some height. However, pushing no spin is a bit easier to control direction and length, so you'd use those things to try to throw off your opponent. Pushing topspin can generate more spin, so the surprise of a...