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Hi all,
I'm starting to play and I would like some advice from you guys, knowing that my motivations and environment may be slightly specific:
- I'm a 44 years old woman, with a poor physical condition. But I want to use this sport as a way to improve my physical condition.
- I have bad arthritis in some of my fingers, so after multiple tests, most likely I will use the pen-hold grip. I also have arthritis in my wrist (not as bad as in my fingers), but so far, not in my knees.
- It seems like I will use the same side of my blade, most of the time. The good thing is, it gives twice the opportunity of a rubber testing, for one blade.
- I can go train in a club only once a week, but I have a training robot in my garage.
- My goal is to start lowest level of team championship, one day, in France.
So far I can stick with my crappy Decathlon blade to learn to keep the ball on the table, but there is a 'bonus' of using decent rubbers:
- I have a kid, almost 11 years old, who plays for 5-6 years. Not specially talented, but passionate and hard-worker. He trains ~8 hours a week, plus various championships the week-end.
- He likes to play different games, depending on his opponent: He can defend, he can attack with ball placement tactics. Not what most of boys of his age play (usually pure attackers).
- He plays for year with LKT "rapid sound" and "rapid power" rubbers. His main coach likes good quality/price ratio rubbers, so he never played with other brands.
But I would like to give him the opportunity to test other brands of rubbers, with my blade(s).
So basically I'm looking for rubbers that I can use to begin without too much struggling, and allow my kid to experiment different hardness/rapidity/control/whatever when he wants to.
I don't have too much budget limit. But let's say, it's probably worthless to invest too much money for a beginner with low expectations, and I don't know if it is a good habit to buy luxury rubbers to a kid, who will not be professional.
Thank you for your advice!
I'm starting to play and I would like some advice from you guys, knowing that my motivations and environment may be slightly specific:
- I'm a 44 years old woman, with a poor physical condition. But I want to use this sport as a way to improve my physical condition.
- I have bad arthritis in some of my fingers, so after multiple tests, most likely I will use the pen-hold grip. I also have arthritis in my wrist (not as bad as in my fingers), but so far, not in my knees.
- It seems like I will use the same side of my blade, most of the time. The good thing is, it gives twice the opportunity of a rubber testing, for one blade.
- I can go train in a club only once a week, but I have a training robot in my garage.
- My goal is to start lowest level of team championship, one day, in France.
So far I can stick with my crappy Decathlon blade to learn to keep the ball on the table, but there is a 'bonus' of using decent rubbers:
- I have a kid, almost 11 years old, who plays for 5-6 years. Not specially talented, but passionate and hard-worker. He trains ~8 hours a week, plus various championships the week-end.
- He likes to play different games, depending on his opponent: He can defend, he can attack with ball placement tactics. Not what most of boys of his age play (usually pure attackers).
- He plays for year with LKT "rapid sound" and "rapid power" rubbers. His main coach likes good quality/price ratio rubbers, so he never played with other brands.
But I would like to give him the opportunity to test other brands of rubbers, with my blade(s).
So basically I'm looking for rubbers that I can use to begin without too much struggling, and allow my kid to experiment different hardness/rapidity/control/whatever when he wants to.
I don't have too much budget limit. But let's say, it's probably worthless to invest too much money for a beginner with low expectations, and I don't know if it is a good habit to buy luxury rubbers to a kid, who will not be professional.
Thank you for your advice!