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Yogi reviews seem pretty spot on. Lots of other reviews are all over the place with differing opinions but his feel more reliable.
Also, you are confusing equipment testing and pro players training and familiarizing with a new equipment. Those are 2 diferent things.
You are the one misunderstood my post. You asked me how much time i said 1 week. I said 3 hours but that meant 3 hrs per day. At least use some common sense here. I will play 3 hours in one week so that is like how many minutes of play only per day?Playing hours?
No I'm not. They oftentimes wait that long before coming to any conclusions.
You are the one misunderstood my post. You asked me how much time i said 1 week. I said 3 hours but that meant 3 hrs per day. At least use some common sense here. I will play 3 hours in one week so that is like how many minutes of play only per day?
Yes you are. Checking the characteristics of a rubber is not that hard. Being able to use that rubber or blade for its maximum potential and at the same time being a good equipment for that pro player is totally different.
Again, i did not misquote you. My answer was clear. Why would i divide 3 hrs in week of playing and drilling? Knowing that a match of 3 out 5 matches lasts at about 20 to 30minutes and the drillings lasts longer? Did you even check my other reply? Durability xan be determined after a monthDon't misquote me. I said "How many playing hours do you typically test products before posting your reviews?". To which you replied one week. To which I asked again how many hours. Obviously nobody knows if you play every day, if you play the same amount of time every day, hence asking how many playing hours.
The same way you would judge a rubber's durability after playing hours, not days elapsed, right?
On that topic, how do you judge durability if you are rotating through several different rackets all the time? Do you come back to the ones you like after finishing your week of testing with other rackets, and keep track of the hours along the way?
I will tell it in your face again. You are confusing equipment adjustment and just checking of characteristics. You are talking to pro players and companies, sure! Who do you think i talk to and have access to?Yes, as I already mentioned, I know your reviews are checks for general characteristics, because it takes more time to really see how a rubber holds up and performs in matchplay rather than drilling conditions.
You also need not tell me what I'm misunderstanding because I have talked to and seen directly from countless pro players and their sponsoring companies/equipment managers how they go through the equipment change process. Many of them would not come to any conclusions until after a good number of hours of breaking in and adapting to the new rubber.
I will tell it in your face again. You are confusing equipment adjustment and just checking of characteristics. You are talking to pro players and companies, sure! Who do you think i talk to and have access to?
I think they are a fine starting point for discussion too. I've seen some things that I generally agree with and some I do not. Reading that he was going to post a review of Dignics a week after he got it made me ask the question of how many hours he uses a rubber before reviewing it - honest question, yes? Not my fault that he misread what was pretty clearly written (how many HOURS do you play with a rubber with before reviewing it) and then I was surprised by the low number he gave me. After that was cleared up, I said that 3 hours a day for a week seems like a satisfactory amount of time, then he started telling me that I'm misunderstanding my own direct experiences that I shared as a point of reference, and then implied that I am lying about having had those experiences. So who's posts are unnecessary?
In any event, we can leave it at 21 hours to test a rubber being an appropriate amount of time to make conclusions. And 3 is not.
If you are assuming that i am only limited to talking to the marketing department and have no access to testing material with other relevant info before an equipment comes out then you did not get that sarcastic joke remark about donald trump. I will just simplify it for you because admittedly you it was m fault to assume that you understand that i was talking about 3hrs per day per in a week. All these years i have spent with tt companies, i have developed good and mutual relationships with them that i have access to some info not readily available to the public. Heck, i even know which esn rubbers have a unique technology that is present only for 1 company and all others area generation behind. My point aside, you misundertood my point again. I only said sure you talk to players and companiesin which i further implied that if you talk to compankes and pro players, who do you think i talk to? Again, check the context of what i was trying to say. By the way, this cheap marketing that you describe have helped players by having a bird's eye view on a equipment. That is for players who do not have access to borrowing equipment.That's what I thought. You're not suddenly part of the inner circle just because you do online equipment reviews, which companies sent you essentially for cheap marketing. Not saying I am either, but the fact that you are trying to tell me who I have and have not talked to speaks volumes.
If you are assuming that i am only limited to talking to the marketing department and have no access to testing material with other relevant info before an equipment comes out then you did not get that sarcastic joke remark about donald trump. I will just simplify it for you because admittedly you it was m fault to assume that you understand that i was talking about 3hrs per day per in a week. All these years i have spent with tt companies, i have developed good and mutual relationships with them that i have access to some info not readily available to the public. Heck, i even know which esn rubbers have a unique technology that is present only for 1 company and all others area generation behind. My point aside, you misundertood my point again. I only said sure you talk to players and companiesin which i further implied that if you talk to compankes and pro players, who do you think i talk to? Again, check the context of what i was trying to say. By the way, this cheap marketing that you describe have helped players by having a bird's eye view on a equipment. That is for players who do not have access to borrowing equipment.
I'm 80% sure you're talking about the Omega 7 series, Asia and newer.Heck, i even know which esn rubbers have a unique technology that is present only for 1 company and all others area generation behind.
How many playing hours do you typically test products before posting your reviews?
1 week
Playing hours?
At least 3. Though due to covid it is reduced. Depends also on the rubber, there are rubbers that need break in period and rubbers that only need 3 days of playing.
3 hours isn't a very long time to get a good idea of the ins and outs of a rubber or blade.
Then go ahead and make a review of your own and do it 8 hrs a day. What does not work for you does not necessarily does the same for me. If you know what you are looking for in a test plus having the experience of testing equipment for 9 years will give you insight and it will not be hard. I stopped counting at 100 to 150 kinds of rubbers and blades each.