Strange most other describe it as a Dtechs with good control.
I an really confused now

I have an old BBC Ultra Blue Streak laying around that I never liked very much. I stuck TM OX on it tonight and gotta say it's really good on that blade. I've tested a number of standard LP blades with TM, and Ultra Blue Streak is by far the best. It takes hard hits really well and the control is spectacular. This combo might be something.

At the end I would like to pass a message to MNNB. For many years I love reading your intelligent reviews on equipment. Your level of EJ I think is the record highest in our community as you get bored with a found nice set up in a very short period but this weakness is a beauty of being EJ. As your brother I am asking please do not give up your addiction.

When playing against higher skilled opponents, backspin and deception are not so important. They are better equipped to play against long pimples.
It is better to have control and consistency and the Troublemaker has these properties.

I am agree with mynamenotbob, in my opinion TM doesn't play anything like D'Tecs.

TM feels quite different from Dtecs, more like Viper. You can feel the pips bending with TM, which absorb spin and speed. Dtecs feels more like elastic trampoline and the dwell is shorter. I think that with TM you can change the pace more easily, which is one form of deception. I found the many unknown opponent had big troubles with balls that stopped and jumped up instead of forward. With Dtecs you get more clearly forward bouncing balls that are often easier for average inverted players.

For chopping Dtecs 0.5 and TM ox are not that far apart. Thay are good when you are out of position and you can still save the ball. Both have problems with harder loops as Dtecs is fast and TM bottoms out. P1r is in theory much better with hard loops, but you must have great footwork to go with it. If you don't go far and low enough with P1r your are toast.

Lot of my opponents don't play looping game at all, so returning hard loops far away is just few % of the game for me. Serve returns are 10x more common, so it's much more important get serves back efficiently.

How would TM compare to Hellfire? Speed, spin sensitivity, reversal, passive blocking etc.

Anyone used both?

I'm thinking of trying TM but do have a sheet of Hellfire that I haven't used yet.

Today my rubbers have arrived (Troublemaker ox and Elite Long ox), I just stick the rubbers, maybe tomorrow I'll play.

About a glue (I hate glue ox pips):

Elite Long:
- I loved it, very easy.
- It comes with a plastic sheet on the pips that makes gluing much easier.

Troublemaker
- I hated my first contact.
- It already comes with a glue sheet, and instructs you to glue the wood (and the sheet), but I just passed the wood.
- At the time of applying the rubber became crooked and when I took out the glue sheet was impregnated with the glue of the wood.
- I put glue back on the wood and before drying I applied the rubber, it will make it look good.
- I should have glued without using glue, I think it would be easier to correct the mistake.

Sorry for my poor English, feel free to correct me.

Redspot,

I made it (apply glue to the blade but not to a rubber sheet).

It lacked my ability to put the rubber.

I removed the glue sheet and today I glue it again using my glue sheet. I'll try to be more careful.