Timo Boll talks about his equipment

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I'm surprised to not see any thread about this as it's an EJ's wet dream :rolleyes:

On Timo's webcoaching blog he released a video talking about his preparation for the World Team Championships:


In this video he talks and even shows his Tenergy rubbers, that he will glue on 4 blades, which he brought with him:

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Here he shows a Tengergy for his forehand weighing 99,6g and talks about his backhand rubber weighing around 93g or 94g.

Interestingly he talks about how he's going to be testing his 4 rackets in the match hall and then deciding with which racket he will play the tournament and that in bigger halls he prefers softer rubbers as he prefers getting a little bit of "help"/catapult effect from the rubber and that he plays harder rubbers (he brought up to 104g for his forehand) in smaller halls.
 
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His english is very good, why would he not do these type of videos in english? Would give him a much bigger audience (or both english and german).

Anyway would a heavier tenergy 05 automatically be harder?
Also is 95-100gram for tenergy 05 normal? I don't play with it but that sounds very heavy, I thought most rubbers were around 65-70grams or so.
 
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Anyway would a heavier tenergy 05 automatically be harder?
Also is 95-100gram for tenergy 05 normal? I don't play with it but that sounds very heavy, I thought most rubbers were around 65-70grams or so.

1. Usually yes
2. 95 - 100 gr. in this case means incl. the package.
 
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New video after their first team match against Egypt:


At 5:56 he talks about that he will switch his forehand rubber to a rubber which is 1g lighter to get more catapult effect from the softer rubber and more "push" in the open exchanges.

Amazing stuff, switching his rubber because of such a low weight difference and here I thought I was an EJ :D
 
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I almost sure, he just turned his rocket

I don't see why would he do that. Unfortunately I couldn't find a good resolution image about his racket, but H3 on BH doesn't make any sense, unless it's a softer sponge version designed for the BH (for example Ma Long uses - or used - orange sponge H3 on his BH). Of course, this doesn't proves anything, however Zhang Jike also used T05 on his FH side for a short period.
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=14675&d=1510590299
 
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