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About Me

Played teable tennis in my youth, I returned to the sport in 2012. Since I lack a lot of training I had to search for proper equipment. Every occasion I work hard to achive and perfect the two-winged loop-attack stile. My game is a bit more spin oriented. When I returned to the sport, just right after the speedglue ban I had to search for good equipment. The main criteria of the search was to find equipment, that are similar to the mainstream, a professional player would use/recommend it and finally it suits my needs/style. So I seardhed for something that has a tempo of OFF-/OFF and looping based game can be played with, with moderate/hight control and feel. Also, the price/performance aspect ratio is an important factor, when making my choices. From glues I found the Revolution No. 3 to be the best. For non-professional player I have to reglues my sheets every 3 months, so it is important to be able to remove the glue without damaging the sponge and the blade. With other brands eg.: Butterfly Freechack (1/2/Pro) or Donic Vario Clean, Blue Contact, this is not possible. For blades, I have used many Butterfly, Donic and YinHe blades. Butterfly blades are good, but very expensive also some of them, which have FL handles resonate unpleasantly, when paired with other non Tenergy rubbers. Tenergy dampens the resonation very much, that is why some blades are only good with them (Maze passion FL, Timo Boll W5 FL, Liu ShiWen FL). Donic blades are OK but some of them I found to be slow or really expensive. I believe today's golden standard in blades is an ALC blade. It has a decent OFF-/OFF tempo, a good rigidity and depending on the model it has some flex too. In YinHe I have found the perfect balance between price and performance/quality. Only downside is that their top veener is a bit more fragile than the others, so when you are using hard to peel glues, you have to watch out for that. YinHe makes good clones and good variations for a blade type, so you are able to find your variation. The build quality is up to the same level as any premium brand, but the price is not at all (most cases). For rubbers I tried mostly Euro/Jap rubbers and some chinese and euro/chinese rubbers. With the new poly ball coming to the picture it was hard for me to finally settle down with a solid choice. I was always going back and forth between the popular attacking rubbers like T05, MX-P, EL-P, M1, M2, MAXXX 500 and so on. I even tried Palio AK47 (red sponge) which was a very nice surprise, It was light and fast too, despite being a chinese rubber, it was as fast as an M2, but with the spin of a Baracuda or T05. Only downside was that the sponge becomes dead after 1-2 reglue cycles and overall the rubber requested more power for the shots. To be fair the main advantage of AK47 was the very good control paired with a really good touch, those gave insane confidence over all of my shots, that rubber pushed my thinking and stategy to a more aggressive and more efficient style. For that I am greatful, but playing with an M1 is the same but with more power (mainly speed). MX-P is a bit inconsistent and dull when counterlooping. Tenergy is very good, but takes a heavy toll when handling spinny serves and also the price is insane. (I can buy 2 sheets of M1 for one sheet of T05, an a bit more than 2 sheets of M2 for the price od a Dignics.) Also these days Tenergy is way less durable, even a hobbly player can outwear it in 3-5 months (6 hours of play a week). M1 and other M series can withstand 300 hours before giving in. Here, their price is a bit more than 30EUR, which is fine. Also I am not that proficient, that my blade is holding me back to be able to perform a shot. Dima was able to get into top 10 with a pair of M1, so there should be no excuse for me to buy Tenergy. (Just to be clear Dima is not my idol, his achievments are just facts.)