OOAK Table Tennis Forum

I do agree that the blade choice is more important than the rubber choice. The biggest drawback I have experienced with slow bats and fast rubbers is that I could not block heavy slow loops very well. That combination seemed too spin sensitive to those shots. Yes, I found it very easy to loop from both wings, which worked well until I started playing against the mid distance loopers who would eventually spin me to death. I didn't experience those problems when I used a fast carbon blade and slower tensor rubbers. I also found that it was much easier to produce short, low and heavy spin serves with the fast blade, slow rubber combo. The opening loop was not as spinny, as the slower blade, fast rubber combo, but it was fast enough, in my opinion.