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In the real practice session at the club with FL2 I got bunch of decent chops a'la Gionis. The trick was to use almost horizontal blade with fast chopping motion. If blade position is a bit more vertical, chops don't make it over the net or spin missing or the slightly bouncy sponge kicks in and sends the ball long and high.

So the problem against good players was more in the close to the table game, where FL2 gives more options, but it also gives more ways to fail.

BH counter top spin is great. I could do like 5 in row - and I haven't really top spinned my BH in 30 years! And some of those counters were fast and nice sidespin with angles were possibility.

Receiving very spinny under/sidespin serves seemed challencing. Underspin push seemed to pops up easily, but there might be some more aggressive options.

I had problems against other pip players, partly because I tried attack too much against no spin and underspin. The thing is, I can get good top spin against tops spin, but against no spin I can't generate enough spin or control.

Against stronger top spin you have to block with closed blade like with inverted and if you get angle right, blocks are fast and gangerous. Against no spin you have to block with vertical blade, but block may be not as effective as with many other pips.

With Sanwei Code you can block almost everything with vertical blade and control is great. With FL2 you have to read the spin and adjust the angle. With SC you can chop with different angles and with different chop speeds if you just adjust the forward momentum. With FL2 the horizontal fast chop is the only option. You can't be lazy with FL2.

I think the Palio 531 with 0.5 sponge was the "opposite" of FL2. With Palio I had to take lot of shots with vertical blade, as the pips didn't work well in horizontal motion.

This was very much my experience with FL3.

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