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When you say obliterate anyone below 2100usatt regardless. what's your actual playing level 2400-2500 or even higher? or is this just a throw away comment or term of phrase to you might not lose to anyone much lower rated but have.

The Dignics range is a strange breed I think. The newer versions seem to add a bit more speed and be a bit more friendly to play with. I think Dan did a review when it first came out saying something like this as well. Very good spin indeed. Boosting or not boosting depends a bit on preference and agree with slevin your coach or feeling if you don't have one.
 
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in my experience the need for boosting is different for everyone. I know a strong second league player here (just a blind guess, but i think he would be over usatt 2400) and uses unboosted H3 on his Fh. He is quite an EJ amd said that this setup makes his loops very effective, due to the unusual speed-spin ratio and he plays very confidently with it. He plays close to the table, but with a "chicken wing" FH. Far from the table it's not that good ofc, but he says the tradeoff worth it (as he can still give more power far from the table and he can also chop when he is too far.
 
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When you say obliterate anyone below 2100usatt regardless. what's your actual playing level 2400-2500 or even higher? or is this just a throw away comment or term of phrase to you might not lose to anyone much lower rated but have.

The Dignics range is a strange breed I think. The newer versions seem to add a bit more speed and be a bit more friendly to play with. I think Dan did a review when it first came out saying something like this as well. Very good spin indeed. Boosting or not boosting depends a bit on preference and agree with slevin your coach or feeling if you don't have one.


I have a very high skill floor, but my skill ceiling isn't high enough because my stroke is not textbook; I am actively trying to fix it (unfortunately i lack a good foundation). My comment meant what it is, I will obliterate anyone below 2100. It would be hard press if they can even get a game out of me in a best of 5 when I"m serious.
 
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You are very confident indeed.... which will hopefully drive you to work even harder on your fledgling game to make it to national titles etc in the future or even play internationally once and if you get the level up.
 
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You are very confident indeed.... which will hopefully drive you to work even harder on your fledgling game to make it to national titles etc in the future or even play internationally once and if you get the level up.

I'm confident but i'm not delusional. A national title is possible for me if it's U2xxx. However, internationally? That'll never happen.
 
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You have probably won under 21 state titles already and or senior titles I guess?. We have similar County titles over in the UK. You will probably make regional champion as well U21 and then senior easily. Especially with the high top end ceiling you say you have and the great quality in performance, practice and training partners. I've digressed from the thread a bit unfortunately sorry but would be interested to know your titles won etc. You have won titles? Cheers
 
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You have probably won under 21 state titles already and or senior titles I guess?. We have similar County titles over in the UK. You will probably make regional champion as well U21 and then senior easily. Especially with the high top end ceiling you say you have and the great quality in performance, practice and training partners. I've digressed from the thread a bit unfortunately sorry but would be interested to know your titles won etc. You have won titles? Cheers

I never put other people down, i only bolst and i back it up though. I recall a guy who tried to be smart end up got kicked out from his own club. I think his alias was allahpong and his name is davis? i forgot; i don't tend to remember unimportant stuff vividly. I only know about this because I was thinking of buying that club out.

Tt is not the only thing i'm good at, i'm good at whatever I choose. Everyone wants to be me. It's always better to be overconfident than not anything. Work and improve on yourself > try to drag others down. Inferior individuals tends to drag people down because they lack the ability to climb. I hope my wisdom reaches you. You are welcome.
 
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I never put other people down, i only bolst and i back it up though. I recall a guy who tried to be smart end up got kicked out from his own club. I think his alias was allahpong and his name is davis? i forgot; i don't tend to remember unimportant stuff vividly. I only know about this because I was thinking of buying that club out.

Tt is not the only thing i'm good at, i'm good at whatever I choose. Everyone wants to be me. It's always better to be overconfident than not anything. Work and improve on yourself > try to drag others down. Inferior individuals tends to drag people down because they lack the ability to climb. I hope my wisdom reaches you. You are welcome.

I wasn't putting you down if you think that. You are an up and coming young player.. kudos. I was actually being serious honestly about asking about your results etc. It's a positive thing, not a negative. I wanted to know about them because when you have the drive to fight soo hard only good things to come. In the end having someone wishing you the best isn't clever it's respect from a senior player.

I also get where you are coming from with a different skill set. Mine is also pretty varied to say the least.

Good luck my friend I hope you make it. Cheers
 
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I wasn't putting you down if you think that. You are an up and coming young player.. kudos. I was actually being serious honestly about asking about your results etc. It's a positive thing, not a negative. I wanted to know about them because when you have the drive to fight soo hard only good things to come. In the end having someone wishing you the best isn't clever it's respect from a senior player.

I also get where you are coming from with a different skill set. Mine is also pretty varied to say the least.

Good luck my friend I hope you make it. Cheers

Unless i'm misunderstood what seniors means. How would one win U21 then win the seniors? Seniors are over 60 right? how would one be under 21 years old and over 60 years old at the same time =).
 
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You may be misunderstood I think but that's ok... It may mean something different in the US. No big problem mind. You would struggle to win both agreed.
 
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Skysowers, you have.been many.battles back in.phils. tibay mo brad hehe, im also from phils right now, so how did.you fair playing there in US? my only achivement was i won the singles in college department meet but with no varsity player played, i went back to playing basketball since that, after almosr.20 years last year march went back playing tt again just to teach my 10 year old in coming grade 6 daughter preparing.her for their school elimination and hopefully she can join the area meet, but because of this covid it might be cancelled all sporting events.now this year good thing we have table at home still practicing at quarantine here

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Hello hello,

My situation here in US is very different compared to the Philippines. I live in a small city and when we immigrated here, there's barely any club I can go to that would fit in my schedule (since I also started working full time). Also, the clubs are so far away from each other- about 2-4 hours drive average. There was a year or so where I would go play once a week, because the club is only open on Saturdays. I tried my best to train like that, with no coach but it's much harder that I expected.

I competed and during my first tournament, I won all of my games. But I wasn't aware of the rating system then. On my second tournament, the competition was definitely harder but fortunately got 2nd place. The higher your rating goes, the harder your competition is. And the tournaments here are coed, so I play against male players most of the time.

I stopped for a while, focusing on work and having a family. I still live in the same small city, but our club got a new owner and it's been getting better since. I started playing again and now there is competition in our club so that helps me improve. We still don't have any coaches, I am probably one of the few people over there who is qualified to become a coach, which I am now (Certified Club Coach). So we just teach ourselves. Mostly through film and applying the stuff that we read or watch online. That is my situation now.

I'm just taking it one day at a time, working on getting stronger so I can play again. A lot of people here see how much I've improved and that they say that I'm underrated, but still hard to say because I haven't competed in years. Hopefully, after the pandemic, I will be able to go out there and apply the improvements I've gained all these years.

I hope your transition to table tennis is going smoothly.
 
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You could move to Bay Area, California, take some online courses at Ohlone College, and instantly be on their team to compete in the college regionals.


I know! That's crazy, right? When I first got here, I even inquired about scholarships in ping pong but they weren't offering it at all. If I was living in a bigger city, where our sport is more exposed, I think my table tennis situation would be better. But I am older now, and I have a family. I'm not as greedy as I was with winning anymore. HAHA!
 
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I know! That's crazy, right? When I first got here, I even inquired about scholarships in ping pong but they weren't offering it at all. If I was living in a bigger city, where our sport is more exposed, I think my table tennis situation would be better. But I am older now, and I have a family. I'm not as greedy as I was with winning anymore. HAHA!

You can say what you want, we strongly suspect you have Rambo DNA still strong in you... you care and care a lot.
 
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You can say what you want, we strongly suspect you have Rambo DNA still strong in you... you care and care a lot.

My years are over. I would like to start coaching again though, and I'm still trying hard on training just in case my kids want to start playing it. I can teach them a little bit.
 
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I know there's many different kind of HL5 and they might change their dimension or even composition between years so here's my HL5 serial: HL5-AGAAXGF 027

So here's my questions:

1. What are the wood/carbon composition of my HL5?
2. What is the BTY equiv?
3. BTY offense blade have 2 blade dimension it seems. The viscaria one and the harimoto(bigger). It seems the hl5 dimension is simliar to harimoto?

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Hurricane Long 5 has the following wood composition.
Limba-Ayous-Arylate/Carbon-Ayous(Core)-Arylate/Carbon-Ayous-Limba

I think the Butterfly Harimoto Tomokazu Innerforce ALC would be simillar as it has the following composition
Limba-Limba-Arylate/Carbon-Ayous(Core)-Arylate/Carbon-Limba-Limba
 
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Here in Croatia we have pretty much the same system as in Europe, although on a smaller scale.

1.) Superliga (the best)
2.) 1. National league (divided in west, east and so on)
3.) 2. National league (that's where I play)

There's also regional leagues that have no influence to the national leagues (not that I know of)

And the regional leagues can also be divided into more leagues, mostly dependant on the number of teams.
The lower the league, the more "fun" it is. By that I mean the players play more for fun and to hang out than to earn points and win. Lowest regional League is basically just people playing and drinking. We all know each other in this middle region where I play so its always like a party at the end.

Team consist of 3 or more players and we play 10 matches.
Winning brings you 2 points, draw is 1 point for either team and losing is, of course, 0 points.
We play 2 times vs every team (home and away games).

1st team advances to the higher league, 2nd team plays with the second lowest ranked team from the higher league.

There also local tournaments for playing solo, usually we are all in the same bracket so to say (everyone can play anyone, like a senior can play vs a junior or a veteran with a kid, determined by the national rank or regional rank). At the end there's also playing in pairs, and there are also no limitations here on local tournaments (again a kid can play with a veteran and so on).

Official tournaments are basically the same as in Europe.
 
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