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Hello I am a young player and have been playing a Japanese Penholder for a number of months. I play with an xiom 10mm one ply hinoki blade and tibhar aurus prime (a thin topsheet 47.5° bouncy rubber with a high throw). My whole game revolves around my footwork and somewhat consistent and quite...

I have a spare stiga all round classic penhold blade (with unboosted Hurricane 3 neo and tsp ventus spin on it). The unboosted Hurricane requires too much effort to play well and the soft tsp rubber doesn’t gel well with the soft, flexible all round classic blade. Someone has suggested I try...

Can anyone give any advice on good table tennis shoes to use? I am a size 8, if that matters. I am a young player and a penholder, so I want shoes that will give me the ability to move quickly, particularly from side to side, without being uncomfortable or bad for my feet (as I have heard some...

Hello forum Having been watching the tennis a bit recently, I wondered whether it would be possible for table tennis to, like tennis, have three different playing surfaces, all with different characteristics? Consider:- A ‘clay’ style table (highest spin, lowest speed, highest bounce), coloured...

How well would my Fastarc G1 play if I left it in the packet a few months after buying and then put it on a blade? While I reckon it wouldn’t lose its grip, I have heard that ‘tensor’ rubbers lose their juice and trampoline effect if left in the packet, however I know the fastarc g1 has less of...

I was wondering, how would a Nittaku Fastarc G1 play if I left in the packet if I bought it and didn’t use it for a few months, then took it out, put it on a blade and played with it? I know that the Nittaku Fastarc G1 is considered a ‘tensor’ and has a limited trampoline effect, but would...

I am considering getting a spare 1 ply hinoki blade, to avoid having to transport my normal bat around all the time. However, it would be nice to get another thick 1 ply hinoki to replicate the feeling of my normal blade. This Sanwei H-10 blade is cheap and looks ok, but a complaint that some...

Hello forum I am interested in knowing the different playing characteristics between structurally flexible blades with a hard top ply and structurally stiff blades with a soft top ply. Generally, most blades are either flexible blades that are also soft in feeling or stiff blades thay are also...

Hello forum I am interested in hearing your thoughts on how jpen players should pick their rubbers. Traditionally jpen players used bouncy rubbers like tenergy 05, but considering the wide range of rubbers now available and the lack of jpen pros/players to emulate, I am overwhelmed by the...

Hello forum I am wondering about perhaps getting a fun backup bat: a Chinese penhold bat with Friendship 802 (2mm) short pips on one side and DHS Cloud and Fog 3 (1mm) on the other side — to play a single sided (twiddling) block/hit/smash game to muck around with occasionally. I want to get a...

Hello forum I have been playing Jpen (single side) for a few months. I play a style similar to Ryu Seung Min (strong forehand topspin, blocking and fishing on backhand), but vastly weaker obviously. I play with an Xiom Power Hinoki and Fastarc G1 in 2.0mm on forehand. I am very happy with...

Hello forum 👋 I have recently changed from casual level shakehand to casual jpen. I love watching jpen players and wanted to keep the style alive. I currently just play with my friends, but I am planning to join a club and I would like to improve. My setup is the Xiom Power Hinoki + Nittaku...

Hello I have, fairly recently, bought a 1 ply hinoki blade and converted to a Jpen looping style. I am very happy and have no interest in fiddling around with equipment on my main bat any more. However, I also have a backup cpen blade (a Stiga Allround Classic). It is very thin and flexible...

Hello, I am a basement/amateur table tennis penholder (I play outdoors mostly, but I am hoping to join an indoor club soon). I switched style a while ago from shake hand fh looper/bh chopper (which I was a reasonably solid amateur at) to penhold two winged looping, which I have a lot of fun with...

Hello forum, bit of a shitpost here, but I’m interested in knowing anyway. Does anyone have any kind of an idea what would happen if you boosted and speed glued a high tension rubber? Obviously the rubber will be made softer and may get faster and will be very undesirable to play with, if not...

Hello, I have recently found a discontinued blade on sale for £55 called the Andro Treiber H, as part of the popular Treiber series. I believe it is kind of a clone of the Butterfly ZLF blades and has a 5+2 ‘innerforce’ composition of (Koto—unknown wood— ZLF — Kiri Core — ZLF — unknown wood —...

Hello, I have recently found a discontinued blade on sale for £55 called the Andro Treiber H, as part of the popular Treiber series. I believe it is kind of a clone of the Butterfly ZLF blades and has a 5+2 ‘innerforce’ composition of (Koto—unknown wood— ZLF — Kiri Core — ZLF — unknown wood —...