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I had forgotten about Hedgehog but he wrote great posts.
The reason I brought up head size is it could help answer what it is we feel on shots. The confounding thing from a physiology perspective comes from proprioception which I personally think is our most important source of "feel" in TT. How we sense muscle location and tension depends a bit on how heavily the muscle is loaded. Because larger blades are heavier, head size will affect feel in that way, while at the same time affects how the blade vibrates. So it is hard to tease out the separate contributions of those two factors. I think differences in how more heavily loaded loaded muscles and tendons sense length and tenson may be why we all think heavier blades generally play faster. (Or is it because they are actually slightly thicker and stiffer? The notorious pnachtway denied that heavier blades were faster at all based on Newtonian mechanics, which is the core of his professional expertise and the one thing he does know).
The reason I brought up head size is it could help answer what it is we feel on shots. The confounding thing from a physiology perspective comes from proprioception which I personally think is our most important source of "feel" in TT. How we sense muscle location and tension depends a bit on how heavily the muscle is loaded. Because larger blades are heavier, head size will affect feel in that way, while at the same time affects how the blade vibrates. So it is hard to tease out the separate contributions of those two factors. I think differences in how more heavily loaded loaded muscles and tendons sense length and tenson may be why we all think heavier blades generally play faster. (Or is it because they are actually slightly thicker and stiffer? The notorious pnachtway denied that heavier blades were faster at all based on Newtonian mechanics, which is the core of his professional expertise and the one thing he does know).
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