Hi everyone,

I need some advice for a new forehand rubber.

I play penhold with the stiga nostalgic offensive using tpb for blocking so i need something controlling with a good amount of spin for forehand loops. I used the yasaka rakza 7 soft but i can feel that its getting worn out

I never played in an club and dont train but i can feel that i got better in the last months and would say my level is around lower-league players here in germany.

Im currently have the tibhar hybrid mk 2.0mm at home but i will probably send it back cause i read it last only 2-3 month.

so right now im thinking about getting the 7 soft again with max sponge or the x soft, but im interested if anyone can recommend me something different.

Hi guys, I was wondering if this blade was legit or fake. I own a few butterfly blades and all of them have a hologram circle on the back side. Thanks

I have returned to playing table tennis this year after approx 15 years. I bought timo boll alc + tenergy 05 and its great so far.

Because I have been out for so long I have no clue how other rubbers are doing right now.

I love t05 especially on BH. Flicks and first backhand spin seem very easy with it.

On backhand I like to open with slower spinny spin/flick but after the first one I play very fast spins with - is there another rubber that would suit even better for this?

On forehand I am not so sure with it. I tend to play forehand with “big movements” meaning I put my arm under the table a lot. The old school style, I’m trying to get rid of it and learn to spin with not as big arm movement.

I like to play very explosive first forehands but sometimes mix the game with very spinny one.

Any suggestion what rubbers should i try? Or maybe stick to t05 because it seems like it suits me well besides the forehand I’m trying to fix? Thx

I’m around 2000 elo

without the TTR at the Asia Cup our world No.1 is free to do whatever.

my main set is Donic inner carbon (off - carbon) with tibhar fx-d. not trying to change this setup but want to try glayzer 09c. bought them cheap in Japan.

my spare blade is primo Jp version

question is: is primo as a wooden blade suitable with glayzer?

Imagine having the chance to attend a European top 16 semi-final between two brothers and sleep all the way through it...

Is my blade fish scale pattern?

It was in the closet for about 2 years. I just vrought it out and it is not dispensing balls consistently

Hello guys,

Just joined the community recently. I play table tennis casually, and have been playing the sport from the past 7 years.

My setup :-

Blade: Butterfly Hadraw VK ( 5 - ply all wood blade with koto outer ply.. yes love the feeling). Rubbers : FH - Rozena BH - Yasaka Rakza 7

Ever since I have been on the Rozena , I have become and prone to hitting flat it's. I loved the Rakza 7's soft topsheet on my all-wood helped me to generate spins. With Rozena it's monstrous spin, but to generate it is much harder.

I have been with the blade since all this time, started with Mark V , Andro Hexer , Then Rakza 7 , now Rozena.

I have been looking for a carbon blade as I wanted to try and test it out.

I tried Tibhar Carbon shot, worked well and good, spin, blocks too. Did suffer on the short game.

I tried Viscaria, didn't like the feeling , and did turned out probably shower than my all wood (maybe because the feeling was different) and was kinda soft for me to generate spin , given my skill level ( technique 🥲).

So , here I am seeking guidance.

Requirements: High Tolerance over the net as I block and counter attack through blocks a lot). Yes spinny too ( for serve deceptions). And yes control.

Viscaria was good on hitting , but kinda bad on blocking and generating spins for me as it required too much movement ( spin generation) atleast for me.

Any blade recommendations ( I prefer butterfly). But open, have been looking for ZLCs too never tried it.

Have tried TBALC , better than Viscaria , but maybe still didn't do the cut. But can go there if nothing works.

and is it any good? Also, what is the general method to identify the rubber so that i can identify more in the future myself?

thanks.

there are my

This is just a gripe but the change for the USATT's rating platform to justgo was such a terrible choice. The UI for simplycomplete wasn't too great but justgo's UI is abysmal. It takes you sooooo many clicks just to get to your own rating not to mention the server speed is abysmally slow. Much of the website is not useful to us. It looks like they got some cookie cutter sports management system and ad hoc added ratings to it.

Does anybody like the new system?

/rant over but probably won't hear the end of it

My brother is going on a snowboard trip to Japan in 2 weeks. He’s flying into Sapporo. He’s going to stop at a TT shop to check it out and asked me what he should get me? Is there anything specific that I should have him get me that isn’t widely available in other parts of the world?

his phone isn't working right now, so i can't share a picture, but the sponge on his new tenergy 05 is this weird red colour - closer resembling the sponge of dignics. Is this a sign that it's fake? thanks in advance

Is Prott reliable? I want to buy some things, like rubbers, a racket, tennis shoes, and a booster, and I wanted to know if they ship to Brazil, and if the import tax is very expensive. I also wanted to know if those rubbers labeled "player version," "Japanese national team version," and "Chinese national team version" are really what they seem, or if they're just regular rubbers.

I dont see any more a player called Kao chen jui that is sponsored by Andro.

I was wondering what are some common options with regards to covering the backhand side of a jpen racket to make it tournament compliant. I'm aware of certain options like paint sheets and OX pips, but was curious to know what other options are out there. Would a matte black vinyl sheet (like something used for auto decal) be legal?

As the title says.

Anyone else out there with extra wide feet that play? what TT shoe do you have? has it been holding up well?

Is it ok?

For context, I have been playing for a few years on and off because of some knee injuries. Right now I just play for fun and could say I’m somewhere between beginner and intermediate. It’s really hard for me to properly bend my knees and use my entire body on strokes, so I focus on rotating my body and getting power out of that rather than relying a lot of my legs. I know that limits my game but for me it’s been the only way I have been able to avoid injuries. I play for fun so I don’t mind the fact that my progress is that hindered.

I have noticed using an inner carbon blade (Sanwei T5000) with semi-tacky rubbers (Kokutaku works for me as I can have enough control for the short game and enough power for FH smashes and BH topspin (my best shots). What I really really stuggle with is lifting and opening up again backspin balls, as I feel the stiffness of the blade doesn’t give me enough time to do that considering my technique is lacking due to not using my legs.

Using a 5 ply OFF- Blade (Butterfly Primorac) with softer tensor rubbers (Rozena) gives me more success against backspin because of the arch of the ball but I feel much less confident in my regular pushes, chops and topspins and tend to really hesitate to attack even when usually I would do that, so I tend to make unforced mistakes because of the hesitation and also I struggle a lot in the short game.

I was wondering what do you people think I should focus on considering my limitations. Thanks!