1. rubbers or blades have power. They don't. You do. Blades and rubbers are inanimate objects that won't move without some outside force. People generate power.
Sorry but this is a convention of language. Come on tell me that scientifically there is no such thing as a nose that runs. And the rest of what I already said. This is stupid. Sorry. It is. There are blades and rubbers that play faster or slower. Someone saying one has more power is just saying: "that is a blade that my shots feel like they have more power with."
2. rubbers or blades have control. They don't. You do. You control the stroke.
I already talked about this one in an earlier post where I said my nose doesn't have legs or use running shoes but nobody is going to run around saying, "My nose has an abundance of mucus that is thin and drippy." A "running nose" is a convention of language. We all know the phrase is not accurate and we all know what it actually means.
Talking about this as though you are right and everyone who uses the convention of language ("this rubber has good control") is stupid, is sophomoric, pretentious and juvenile. There are better things to waste your time with than what words are used to describe the qualities of a blade or rubber. So many of the terms we use are just not accurate because they are being used to describe something about what you would FEEL!
3. SP have a sink ball effect. Well they do but you can duplicate the same effect with inverted rubbers. There is no force or impulse a SP can generate that an inverted rubber cannot.
I don't know. It seems odd that you mention this at all. What different rubbers do is give you the potential to create more or less spin or to not interfere with the spin already on the ball depending on the amount of grip and surface area of the rubber. Tenergy can create dead balls and short pips can loop. I am not sure that it matters.
4. hard rubbers are faster than soft rubbers or the other way around. It is more complicated than that. People talk about how springy a sponge is and that is a good indications of how fast the rubber is but it is really the internal damping. If there are any mechanical engineers here they know about the mass on a spring with a dashpot for damping. No one mentions the damping and damping is important.
The dampening effect is worth talking about but the first part seems a waste of time to me. Don't we all know of hard rubbers that are slow and others that are fast? And soft rubbers that are slower and other soft rubbers that are faster.
5. Thick rubbers are faster than slower rubbers. Rubber doesn't generated energy. It absorbs energy. Given the same stroke a thinner rubber will be faster.
While this may be accurate, when I watch hardbat the pace of the game is much slower than sponge. Part of the reason is that the sponge allows you to generate more spin and this allows the players to put much more force into their shots without sacrificing accuracy. So what is the point of this statement?
6. LPs generate wobble balls. There is no wobble force generated by a paddle or rubber. LPs do generate a higher percentage of dead balls than inverted but basically there is no force an LP can generate that an inverted rubber cant. Inverted rubbers should be able to generate wobble balls too but there is no wobble force. If a ball appears to wobble it is caused by the ball being moved by air currents or eddies around the opponent. It has nothing to do with the rubber or blade because the paddle has no effect on the ball after it has left the paddle.
I have seen balls wobble before. I have seen it off all kinds of rackets and sponges. Sometimes it is because of a bad ball that isn't round or one that has more weight in one part of the ball. But I think a dead ball could wobble the way a knuckleball in baseball wobbles. Is it the kind of rubber that creates this? No. It is the spin or lack of spin on the ball or a defect in the ball. But who really cares. Any racket can produce a deadball.
7. Dwell time is not long. Dwell time is very short. It is on the order of a millisecond to millisecond and a half. I have high speed videos to prove it.
The thing is, a stroke itself is really fast. So of course dwell time will only be really fast because the ball is probably on the racket for considerably less than 1/100 of the distance the racket moves during the stroke. So making it so the ball is on the racket for a decent percentage of time more is big. The difference between a millisecond and a millisecond and a half is 50%. That would be a huge increase or drop in dwell time. So that does really matter.
8. Accelerate through the ball to increase dwell time or hold the ball ion the paddle. Yes, it does increase dwell time but on the order of a few micro seconds.
Again, a fraction of a millisecond is a huge percentage increase in dwell time. That makes a difference.
I don't feel like posting what I wrote for the rest. My problem with all of this is not whether it is accurate or not. It is more that it is a waste of time. It is a bit juvenile. And it just basically sounds like you are saying: "I am smarter than you because I don't say I have a runny nose. And you are a fool to think your nose runs." You are basically fighting the way language works. And it is a losing battle.
And the pretentiousness of it, seems silly because it is not even eye opening information that is being presented. People don't actually think the rubber has control. They know that a rubber which is easier for a person to control is said "to have" "more control".
Is the moon full or crescent? Oh, it's the shadow of the earth that we see on the moon that makes it appear crescent? Duh! I thought part of the moon had disappeared when it was crescent. I did not know it was still actually a sphere. Are you sure?
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