This user has no status.
This user has no status.
Good short pips players should know how to loop with inverted.If you can't looping so maybe short pips will be good for your backhand. Friendship 802-40 is very nice SP with spin possibilities and very cheap.
Trust me, I've seen all the old discussions and cross-posts. Everybody gets one kind post intended to help, if it doesn't hit home it ain't my problem That T5000 sounds like a sweet paper weight though, albeit a bit expensive. OP would definitely benefit from some 2008 XP on both sides IMHO. It's not magic but it does anything you want it to do.
I had a buddy from high school start at my college during my 4th year (engineering is 5 years) and the kid loved TT. He got recreationally decent using a cheap Dick's sporting goods racket but wanted to get something better. I recommended him a Xiom premade that I learned with and had pretty good success with. Then he read the reviews and called me, pissed off, of course, and explained to me that he was intermediate AT LEAST. I explained to him that I wasn't even really intermediate at the time, though he couldn't get to more than 5 points in a game against me. So he bought the paddle and we played when he got it. The whole time he was whining that the paddle wasn't spinny enough and that he could do better with a better setup. So I let him use my setup and proceeded to spin him off the table with his "wildly inferior" setup. He hasn't played much since. I'm not even good now, let alone then, so that should tell you how big the equipment misconception is with beginners. It also tells you how big the gap is between recreational ping pong and the sport of table tennis. Sorry for getting off track, figured my little anecdote may be helpful
Absolutely. I still love cheap, dead-ish rubbers and playing as funky as possible. That's especially true when I beat people that use a $250 setup The same thing happens in powerlifting, you outlift someone that's uneducated and they ask you what supplements you used to get to that level hoping to find a secret. Then when you say nothing, its been 5 years of consistent ass-busting they just hang their head and ponder life. Always funny
People who use dead rubber on purpose shall receive their punishment one day....