Best way to clean your rubber?

[Der_Echte]

Only the Korean speaking women who accompany him on his mission to see me will be mezmorized.

Oh, and any men accompanying him wil simply be passed out drunk before the end of the first hour (unsuccessfully) trying to get me to overload on beer after the TT knock-around.

 

[Der_Echte]

Which is the best and most effective way to clean your racket:
- using water
or
- using foam or liquid cleaners
or
- Other

About 1/2 or so of Korean club amature players clean their rubber with BTY foam cleaner.

Some of them get a small Andro spray cleaner fro free at a tourney once a year and use that.

The rest either use water, or toss their bat in the case and move on to more important things, like going to the pub or resturant. There is a time for everything.

 

[XIII]

First, *you're
Second, whether you are a very serious person or you just lack sense of humor, I am more inclined to see YOU in real life man
Third, however Sir Der_Echte is in your mind, trust me, he is NOT like what you think when you see him for real.. You will be mesmerized

Cheers!

Always get mixed up with your and you're
I'm a little of both, I'm a 15 year old boy, Chinese and lives in Australia, try and imagine that
Sir Der_Echte must be an unimaginable person, someone I have never seen before...

 

[XIII]

Wonder what are the 3 that chose 'Other'.
1. Sweat
2.Der_Echte's sweat
3. ????

 

[Der_Echte]

Well XII, sometimes some players and coaches from Austrailia have some TT stuff to do in Korea every year, so maybe you can join in on that crew, pop up here to Korea, and show me how you maintain your equipment.

I met an Austrailian forum member that way a few years back.

 

[XIII]

Well XII, sometimes some players and coaches from Austrailia have some TT stuff to do in Korea every year, so maybe you can join in on that crew, pop up here to Korea, and show me how you maintain your equipment.

I met an Austrailian forum member that way a few years back.

XIII* You missed an I
I can't join any clubs Q_Q
Are you serious your Korean? Your english is so good.

 

[Bollforte94]

and his name sounds German ...

 

[Der_Echte]

It is an abbreviation of the Original Joker, so calling myself the original suits me well enough as I am as original as any out there. I lived 1/2 my adult life in Germany and occasionall post (in obviously foreign German) to an LN material TT board in German (Pimp my Blade forum)

http://www.pimp-my-blade.de/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=138

Glad to our top ten poster BF come out and chime in. Whenever I make it to Germany fro a quick trip, BF, you ready and willing to play a match vs me for all you can eat Herrenschnitzel und (drink) Dunkleshefeweissbier??? The food might put a 15 Euro dent in your wallet, but the beer might put you in serious debt...

 

[Der_Echte]

XIII* You missed an I
I can't join any clubs Q_Q
Are you serious your Korean? Your english is so good.

and his name sounds German ...

My English is good, because I am a native English speaker.

My spoken German is pretty good, but I am obviously a foreigner there. My spoken Korean is very good, over the phine, the Koreans do not realize who I am until they meet me and are even moar confused that a white skinned dude just talked to them over the phone in perfect. They know I am American, but are even moar perplexed when i say my hometown is in Germany. ( I claim a German hometown as I have lived in that city longer than i lived any one place in USA.)

 

[Der_Echte]

XIII* You missed an I
I can't join any clubs Q_Q
Are you serious your Korean? Your english is so good.

I am seriously NOT Korean, but my Korean is seriously good. I played hell trying to learn and play Table Tennis in USA and while in Iraq, but my last few years since I came to Korean have been very good for my Table Tennis life. Every seriosu player here knows me or knows of me, whether that is good or bad. I have made some posts at Korea's largest TT board and that got me known everywhere, for good or bad. I am the only amature player who is not an elite amature to get sponsored, it was because of my friendship and prior marketing help with the president of Korea's largest online TT distributor. TT is a smaller world than we realize. In USA, I would be hard-pressed to get sponsored by even a Pig-Shyt Recyling company.

 

[Der_Echte]

BTW XIII, why can't you join any TT clubs?

 

[YosuaYosan]

Always get mixed up with your and you're
I'm a little of both, I'm a 15 year old boy, Chinese and lives in Australia, try and imagine that
Sir Der_Echte must be an unimaginable person, someone I have never seen before...

Haha that's no problem, you will learn to use both perfectly one day.
15 y.o Chinese boy living in Australia is imaginable Next year I am going to study there (my college year), probably I could see you there.

Here is a clue to how Sir Der_Echte looks. Imagine a bear. Imagine something (or someone) more badass. That's probably him.. Just probably..

Wonder what are the 3 that chose 'Other'.
1. Sweat
2.Der_Echte's sweat
3. ????

Yep number 1 is me.

Oh and regarding playing TT in Australia, I reckon it is actually easier to find TT clubs compared to many other nations.
I will study @ Western Australia and BOY there are LOTS of table tennis clubs there. Just google it!

Best of luck XIII!

 

[Der_Echte]

YY, bears are indeed pretty bad-azz critters, heavy as anything, yet can really move. I share similar traits, but I am not nearly as heavy nor fast as a bear, but a whole heap moar sudden and quicker.

Anywayz, i gotta go, FC Bayern is about to kickoff vs in-state rival FC Nurnburg and I have to keep track via live-ticker...

EDIT: Haha, FC bayern just went up 1-0, so I got another minute to post.

YY, I hope you have a blast in OZ and meetup with lotz of friends and have a Royal Rumble down there. You ought to drop by Korea first though...

 

[XIII]

Haha that's no problem, you will learn to use both perfectly one day.
15 y.o Chinese boy living in Australia is imaginable Next year I am going to study there (my college year), probably I could see you there.

Here is a clue to how Sir Der_Echte looks. Imagine a bear. Imagine something (or someone) more badass. That's probably him.. Just probably..



Yep number 1 is me.

Oh and regarding playing TT in Australia, I reckon it is actually easier to find TT clubs compared to many other nations.
I will study @ Western Australia and BOY there are LOTS of table tennis clubs there. Just google it!

Best of luck XIII!

I'm sorry to say but I live in New South Wales and club are actually quite common but I don't think they go out of the country to vs other countries

 

[XIII]

BTW XIII, why can't you join any TT clubs?

Actually I can but they don't vs other clubs or other countries.

 

[alyzain]

Cleaners are pretty good these days but I always prefer Water over them. Its the best solution

 

[Benduo]

Nothing is better than good old dihydrogen monoxide!! If there is a bit of grease on the rubber you can even mix it dish washing detergent.
Anyway, I'm new here, the main forum I visit is OOAK. I know that Sir Der_Echte and Yosua are also on ooak so its nice to see you guys here- small world ayy?

Yosua, I live in Perth, Western Australia, and trust me table tennis is not very popular here compared to the bigger cities like Sydney, Melbourne or brisbane. I'm trying to find a club but they always run at some ridiculous time or are far far away. Entry fee is also pretty nasty at some of the clubs.

Anyway, what uni/college are you going to go to Yosua? I could very well be seeing you!

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Water gets off the dust and dirt. I have heard that most of the cleaners have chemicals in them that cause the rubber of the topsheet to break down and wear out a little more quickly. But, interestingly, oil does as well and, in the short term it makes the rubber grippier and play better. So, some of those cleaners cause the topsheet to be grippier for a little while and then to be not as grippy a few weeks down the road. The real issue then, would be, how often do you play and how quickly do you replace your rubbers. If you are playing a lot, and replacing your rubbers every few months, it does not matter what you use. If you are playing once in a while and hoping for the rubber to still be good next year, then Water is better. And there is little doubt that water gets more off your topsheet than anything else and leaves no chemical residue behind. But, again, sometimes the chemical residue left behind by the cleaners makes the rubber grippier for a while.

Joola has a foam cleaner that, if you rub it in, rather than rubbing it off, will definitely give your topsheet more grip for a few days. At a certain point though, rubber gets less and less grippy. I know some guys who have been using their rubbers for soooooo long that their rubber responds like antispin (for real). I know a few who do not even realize this and have totally adapted their game to rubber with no grip and play a great antispin game. They are recreational players. I have another friend who is a looper and was using Tenergy 05 and it got so old that it became antispin. He was freaking out. He was asking me why he could not get any spin on his loops and why the ball kept falling off his racket. I hit with him for 2 minutes and said, let me feel your rubber. It was as ungrippy as an old table tennis table. I told him, if Tenergy costs so much that you wait this long to buy your next set of rubbers, you should just get something less expensive. For Tenergy to play like antispin he must have been using for a really long time.

 

[Der_Echte]

That is a seriously slick rubber.

When I was in Iraq, there was this Romanian Luitenant who had a bat with two ancient sheets of BTY Ekrips. If he passively blocked, it acted like anti. If he attacked, he could make some topspin. It was a tricky rubber to play against.

There are a few old-school USA players who are rumored to play with ancient sheets of Mark V. Anyone want to dime them out?