I really wish I knew the decision making process behind when players choose to change their paddle materials. Is it because of the urging of their coaches? and what aspects they consider when they think about what materials they want to change to. It seems like a lot of the Chinese players have been switching relatively often in the past couple of years, I have to wonder if their choice of what to use, is more about who is sponsoring them, or whether its partly random to just fidget with their equipment on the off chance they find something that they are good with. It just seems like there are so many things to consider that making a truly educated choice as to what materials to switch to would be hard. I mean the true pros are so good they can adjust their games to such an extent, it seems like it would be hard to tell a true difference between their use of different equipment if they are given the chance to adept to that material for long enough.
If you are good at control, should that mean you should pick the rubber that gives you more control so you completely dominate in that aspect? or should you pick the rubber that gives bad control, because your style is already tuned to that, so that the rubber you choose while having bad control, has a bonus in some other aspect of the game.