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Has anyone here who has tried super smooth frictionless-replacement antis from Dr Neubauer or Joola continued using them over the long term? I've tested them all, but never stuck with any of them.

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I know several people that changed to them, but all have returned to LPs.

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i would stick with one if i had the money.

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Players to use near-frictionless anti would most likely be blocking with them, probably coming from using Superblock or something like it. For those players taking the speed off the ball would be at least as important as having lots of reversal, but slow anti's are generally slow because of their thick sponges which prevent massive reversal, so an anti would be unlikely to replace a frictionless LP. Anti's with heaps of reversal have thin sponge and are best used, I guess, the way Amelie Solja is using one of them: aggressively pushing instead of blocking. Still, it should be possible to make a slow, well-reversing anti. Someone called Ed von Schleck is preparing anti's (turns Friendship 804 into 804EvS) in Germany and they are used in competition - but can't be used in international tournaments. He can't be the only one to have an idea how to make them, can he? As I understand it, the problem is the sponge: it must be hard and/or thin enough not to let the ball dig into the topsheet, so friction won't increase on firm contact; if it is thin, it won't absorb enough speed, if it is thick it will either be too fast or too soft. But if someone can make the right sponge by burning it in his kitchen, a manufacturer should be able to an even better job, I'd think. Puzzling...

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