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The ball is too light to flex the wood.

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Brett is the voice of reason about all of this EJ stuff! The ESN Slippage does happen to me sometimes on my backhand. I had someone tell me it was slipping off the rubber before. I think going a bit softer helps and the R47 generation (5th? 6th?) tends to do it less.

I personally like the Timo Boll line of blades for the handle. It just fits my hand in a way that I like. I would be very happy to find a cheaper blade with the same handle. For $8 bucks I am going to see what the handle is like on that blade, at worst case I'll donate it to work

It's perfectly fine to state your opinion and talk about personal experience. Doing so may lead to you learning something new or perhaps enlightening others. Your rating or whatever isn't that relevant and I'm taking your comments seriously.

A couple of nights ago, I told a 2500 player to stop using H3. I told him his forehand is completely wrong for the rubber. It took about 2 minutes before he pulled out a racket with T05 on the forehand and started challenging friends. I doubt he'll ever use the H3 rubber again because he told me that he had already worked this out. I just pushed him over the edge.

About a year ago, I advised a 12 year old to use H3 and he is still using it.

So what's my deal? I'm telling one player not to use H3, whilst I'm telling others to use it. Do I like the rubber or not?

The 2500 player is backhand oriented and struggles to find the time and position to use his body correctly on the forehand. He tends to block a bit and he makes thick contacts when he loops against block. The 12 year old is forehand oriented and he uses a straight arm loop with excellent body work. He is fast enough to counterspin all forehands, so he rarely blocks.

The 2500 plays more like a European and the 12 year old plays more like a Chinese.

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It's not $8 bucks..it's $7.69!

You can put the 31 cents saving towards this one, whilst you have your credit card out https://revspin.net/blade/huaruite-clipper.html

I actually used this one for a while until someone demanded I give it to them. It is a "correct blade".

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My P700s are 7-ply, and I'm quite happy with them. If the sheer Mima Ito-ness of the Acoustic Carbon doesn't blow me away I'll go back to them when I resell it.

ML and Harimoto do many things I would be wise not to attempt. Using inner carbon blades is the least of it.

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Watching Ma Long execute one of those fast "loops", he doesn't seem to brush much either. In fact he contacts the ball pretty hard, and seems to be more interested in the speed rather than the spin.

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I love how EJing has made this thread the most busy it's ever been in it's life time.

I'll just add this - I don't know what the all the top players use and neither does anyone else on forums. I know a few things because I attend tournaments and I've coached against highly rated players. I also hear a lot of stuff from friends who play internationally. This is clearly not the place for me to be telling stories.

Okay, Henzell used a microwave to remove the handles from a Boll Spirit and put on other handles for obvious reasons. That wasn't even the start of it for him. Now use your imagination to think about what really happens out there.

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Let's face it this is an EJ forum not a table tennis forum

I have enjoyed Brett's candidness here. Not something we get too often.

I seem to remember reading William was going to switch to Xiom Vega Pro rubbers but eventually he decided to stick with tenergy due to the slippage problems mentioned. The Boll Spirit with Yasaka Ma Lin Carbon handles? Fan zhendong uses a Viscaria with Stiga handles, this is basically fact at this point.

I don't understand why it's such a thing in table tennis to hide everything about pros equipment. It's not the case in golf.

But... please, Brett, please!

I HAD one of those, I gave it away. Can't remember exactly why, maybe it was too heavy. And now Eacheng's quit selling a lot of HRT blades including this one.

Looking at that list of blades on ttbla.de, I find the Stiga Allround Classic is 1092 and the Sanwei M8 (which I use) is 1287. Hmmm... But then the HRT Clipper is 1412, and the Viscaria is 1452. The LKT Toxic 3 (which is supposed to be dead slow) is 1094 (the same as the Stiga Allround Classic). Hmmm..

Iskandar

This thread is approaching 400K views. I feel that if I mention just one more blade, I can get a quick 8K to get us there by sunset in the US. If I mention a top player who doesn't use what you think he uses, I can get us to half a million.

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I'm sure it's a competitive field, but my money's on Iskandar for biggest EJ on OOAk

I've actually met Iskandar in Thailand and he's a super nice guy too!

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I see. But why is it so awkward against higher balls? It was the first thing I noticed about the rubber: in the very first practice match I made a lot of mistakes against fishing shots and lobs that I normally did not do.

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I do notice the Chinese tend to flip the bat around when attacking lobs.. There's usually Tenergy on the other side. People say it's because you get more energy out of the Tenergy, but maybe it's not?

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