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Having played with them, I think when your sponge gets that thick with grippy long pips... there's not much difference from say, a medium pip or low grip SP. He Zhoujia for example uses the feint soft on some really thick sponge, and she plays basically the same as someone like mima ito smacking away at the ball. Probably with slightly less speed and slightly more dead ball effect.

Some times I play people while using thick LP and they don't even realize I've been hitting LP against them... because there is no weird effect, other than a dead ball, which short/medium produce well enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBomelBMPC0

Zhou Xintong
Megan Phillips (uses feint long 2 with some sponge) https://youtu.be/NvWW-MGMWcY

long pip hitter/blocker - https://youtu.be/zcvERPqrOkY

if you’re after a maximized disturbance and deception effect, and rarely use the long pips for an attack, then you should have no sponge (ox). Then you can both chop and block with the spin reversal.

If you want to attack backspin balls with less risk, then add a 0.5–1.0 sponge. But you’ll lose quite some disturbance and deception effect. From ttdementor article in Medium.com