New Equipment -- Budding EJ

[TableTennisBD]

Hi Table Tennis Lovers,

Thanks everyone. Based on your overwhelming support and suggestion, I have made the order for the following

Petr Korbel
Sriver on both sides

I will keep my Timo Boll ALC to rest while I develop (hopefully) with this new set up.

I am a 42 year old amateur player with tremendous love for the game and a desire to learn the game properly. I hope to take it as a physical activity and do well in our community competitions (no love lost if I do terrible at that). Ideally I prefer to go to a club but because of life, I can go there twice a month if I am lucky. To keep growing, I practice in my basement everyday with a Joola robot and rebound board. I am thinking about taking some lessons to learn proper technique. Any suggestions for me (for development) would be welcome.

I don't now if I have done it right to splurge this money on a new set up after having invested heavily on the TB set up. Hope I do not become a EJ ( my wife will be super mad).
Just wanted to share my thoughts with my fellow TT lovers

 

[Lazer]

Keep playing your new setup and put your old setup stashed away some in a case out of the sun and with protective sheets on. If You haven’t assembled it yet wait until you feel very comfortable with your other equipment. It’s the right choice to rest it.

It’s better to first step up the rubbers then the blade. Korbel is a blade you could probably play with for a decade, doesn’t matter how good you become, but I know it’s interesting to test something new….

Anyway Sriver on a Korbel is a great setup that learn with, and in about a year upgrade the rubbers and play on other year before even start to think about the other setup.

 

[TensorBackhand]

Hi Table Tennis Lovers,

Thanks everyone. Based on your overwhelming support and suggestion, I have made the order for the following

Petr Korbel
Sriver on both sides

I will keep my Timo Boll ALC to rest while I develop (hopefully) with this new set up.

I am a 42 year old amateur player with tremendous love for the game and a desire to learn the game properly. I hope to take it as a physical activity and do well in our community competitions (no love lost if I do terrible at that). Ideally I prefer to go to a club but because of life, I can go there twice a month if I am lucky. To keep growing, I practice in my basement everyday with a Joola robot and rebound board. I am thinking about taking some lessons to learn proper technique. Any suggestions for me (for development) would be welcome.

I don't now if I have done it right to splurge this money on a new set up after having invested heavily on the TB set up. Hope I do not become a EJ ( my wife will be super mad).
Just wanted to share my thoughts with my fellow TT lovers

uhh, Sriver?? Why get such old rubber.

 

[piligrim]

Why Sriver???

 

[TableTennisBD]

Why Sriver???

I was not sure between Sriver and Rozena, then went with Sriver to have more of a beginner set up. Should I modify the order?

 

[Tyce]

Both are fine, just different

 

[TensorBackhand]

I was not sure between Sriver and Rozena, then went with Sriver to have more of a beginner set up. Should I modify the order?

I think Rozena is much more reasonable

 

[piligrim]

I was not sure between Sriver and Rozena, then went with Sriver to have more of a beginner set up. Should I modify the order?

In my opinion with Sriver it will be too slow. I would recomend Rozena for sure

 

[Scarfed Garchomp]

I was not sure between Sriver and Rozena, then went with Sriver to have more of a beginner set up. Should I modify the order?

Sriver is just quite slow and unreactive. The topsheet has some usable grip but coming from a real attacking setup with carbon and fast rubbers, Sriver will feel more like a piece of basement gear. Rozena is priced similarly to Sriver but it is essentially a "small tenergy" in performance and in comparison to Sriver, it is much faster and more reactive.

 

[Amayzde]

Sriver is fine. I know a few old school players that have pretty much used Sriver all their life on a Donic Appelgren Allplay. They still beat all the people at our club that supposedly have 'better' equipment.

 

[Amayzde]

One thing I want to mention is that you are now gonna play with this new setup, with the goal of going back to your old TB ALC.

This is wrong (in opinion). Having this blade in the back of your mind is gonna create curiousity and doubt, this is what sparks the inner EJ (trust me, Im speaking from experience) Just sell the ALC and upgrade the rubbers on your Korbel. You will be set for the next 10 years.

 

[Tyce]

I have lost vs a Sriver player last season 😅 she had some killer backhand shots with it that sent me flying all over the place

 

[piligrim]

Sriver is fine. I know a few old school players that have pretty much used Sriver all their life on a Donic Appelgren Allplay. They still beat all the people at our club that supposedly have 'better' equipment.

Sriver fine only for people who used it all life but not for someone who used to modern tensor rubbers

 

[Tyce]

Sriver fine only for people who used it all life but not for someone who used to modern tensor rubbers

This is honestly not true. Modern tensor rubbers aren't some form of sorcery, just an evolution in gear. And unless you are advanced enough to hit the performance ceiling of Sriver, which most people are not, there's no net benefit using either option.

 

[piligrim]

This is honestly not true. Modern tensor rubbers aren't some form of sorcery, just an evolution in gear. And unless you are advanced enough to hit the performance ceiling of Sriver, which most people are not, there's no net benefit using either option.

Its not true in your opinion but if you are wrong it still can be true

 

[TableTennisBD]

There seems to be consensus about beginner blade but what would be the best beginner level for rubber ?

 

[mcfly]

IT IS THE PLAYER NOT THE EQUIPMENT

 

[d3nium]

Plenty of local league players around here still use Sriver. It'll do the job for the OP.

 

[Table10Ice]

There seems to be consensus about beginner blade but what would be the best beginner level for rubber ?

My first rubbers were Nittaku Factive and Andro GTT 45, both are really good rubbers for beginners, and they cost less than faster, bouncier rubbers as well.

 

[Lazer]

There seems to be consensus about beginner blade but what would be the best beginner level for rubber ?

Don’t listen to the talk about old fashioned bla bla bla. There is a reason why Mark V still is one of the most sold rubbers…

Korbel is fine. The difference between Sriver and Rozena isn’t huge. Sriver has a little less of everything, this works as benefit for a beginner.

When I started over after 40+ years I started with Sriver…

But I say this beware of the EJ devil if you don’t want to spend a lot of money.

Cheers
L-zr