If I want to design a smart racket what would be various considerations for diferent playing styles , age etc ?
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Best smart racket designs
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Gisela 2005
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James Z
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Re: Best smart racket designs
To start with, you will need smart blade and not a dumb blade used by (click link) robotNazis
In this post I will talk only about shakehand players. In the next post in this thread I will talk about penhold & American grip players.
Next, most young shakehand players should start with a spinny inverted rubber on the forehand & an OX long pips (NOT slim pips, NOT anti, NOT wide (stiff) pips) on the backhand.
This combination gives you the best spin contrast (top spin forehand & back spin / no spin backhand)
If you are more of a close to the table blocker / chop-blocker style player, you want to use a frictionless type non-ITTF long pips such as Magic 77 or C801 or Mo Avalox on the backhand side . These 3 rubbers seem to be the only three non-treated long pips .
I do not recommend treated or cured pips (the reasons are mostly political).
If you are an away from the table chopper, I cannot help you in the 40+ plastic ball era (after the 14 rule and regulation changes since 1977 (click link) starting with the long pips ban). There are no large or oversized blades & there are no frictioned chopping long pips available for you.
The rubbers like Feint Long 2 or 3 or TSP P1r Curl or Victas P1v etc. are the biggest jokes in the 40+ plastic ball era.
The so called defensive blades from Butterfly (Diode) or inner carbon or Nexy blades are an even bigger jokes.
Joo Saehyuk is the real GOAT of all of table tennis but he has no clue about defensive blade designs for amateurs (for NEXY now or Butterfly before). He never had a clue after 1998 when he stared after the Durban 1998 Aspect Ratio Massacre & the 40- ball switch.
Victas president Koji Matsushita seems to (surprisingly) equally clueless now & then during the 1998 Durban fiasco. He should know better than Joo Saehyuk (because of what happened in 1998 when Matsushita was in his prime , but he doesn't).
It is quite possible all these choppers (about 15 or 16) including future ITTF president the, Adham Sharara) have kept their mouth shut because of their sponsorships or business deals (Adham Sharara was convicted by ITTF with a life time ban for his alleged business deals and such but then he was de-convicted by ITTF for other sad political reasons)
If you are a chopper and still want to stay in the sport, you have crossed over from neurosis to psychosis. You need serious help
Anyway if you still insist you can have some custom blade maker make a large smart balde & use Magic 77. That is the only rubber I know of that may partially help choppers with a decent looper torture index.
If you have good flat hitting forehand, you can go with wide (stiff) pips (with thicker sponge) instead of spinny inverted on the forehand.
Almost all wide (stiff) pips with sponge are of frictioned pips type. So you are in luck there
If you are capable of playing close to the table , you can go with a frictionless type long pips like Reach C-801, Mo Avalox or Globe Mo Wang 3 on the backhand .Tibhar Dtec Ox may be used by billions of Indian women because of Manika Batra but sorry, it is garbage in the 40+ plastic ball era.
If you can play double winged chopping , one choice is to use frictioned OX long pips on the backhand like Magic 77 & use a frictionless type wide (stiff) pips with sponge on the forehand. This is gives a better spin contrast than using either frictioned pips both sides or frictionless pips both sides.
So what frictionless wide (stiff) pips are available ? I am not sure of any after the 2008 frictionless pips ban when one of the best frictionless pips rubbers , Butterfly Resilon was banned as collateral damage since the ban was aimed at frictionless slim (flex) pips, almost all of them by Dr.Neubauer.
So sorry , anywhere you turn , you are out of luck as a chopper, I guess that is your manifest end destiny LOL
You can try a medium pips like Friendship 563 or 799 . The spin contrast between a medium pips & long pips will be lower but that is the best you can do with what you got on the market whether on ITTF LARC or not.
In this post I will talk only about shakehand players. In the next post in this thread I will talk about penhold & American grip players.
Next, most young shakehand players should start with a spinny inverted rubber on the forehand & an OX long pips (NOT slim pips, NOT anti, NOT wide (stiff) pips) on the backhand.
This combination gives you the best spin contrast (top spin forehand & back spin / no spin backhand)
If you are more of a close to the table blocker / chop-blocker style player, you want to use a frictionless type non-ITTF long pips such as Magic 77 or C801 or Mo Avalox on the backhand side . These 3 rubbers seem to be the only three non-treated long pips .
I do not recommend treated or cured pips (the reasons are mostly political).
If you are an away from the table chopper, I cannot help you in the 40+ plastic ball era (after the 14 rule and regulation changes since 1977 (click link) starting with the long pips ban). There are no large or oversized blades & there are no frictioned chopping long pips available for you.
The rubbers like Feint Long 2 or 3 or TSP P1r Curl or Victas P1v etc. are the biggest jokes in the 40+ plastic ball era.
The so called defensive blades from Butterfly (Diode) or inner carbon or Nexy blades are an even bigger jokes.
Joo Saehyuk is the real GOAT of all of table tennis but he has no clue about defensive blade designs for amateurs (for NEXY now or Butterfly before). He never had a clue after 1998 when he stared after the Durban 1998 Aspect Ratio Massacre & the 40- ball switch.
Victas president Koji Matsushita seems to (surprisingly) equally clueless now & then during the 1998 Durban fiasco. He should know better than Joo Saehyuk (because of what happened in 1998 when Matsushita was in his prime , but he doesn't).
It is quite possible all these choppers (about 15 or 16) including future ITTF president the, Adham Sharara) have kept their mouth shut because of their sponsorships or business deals (Adham Sharara was convicted by ITTF with a life time ban for his alleged business deals and such but then he was de-convicted by ITTF for other sad political reasons)
If you are a chopper and still want to stay in the sport, you have crossed over from neurosis to psychosis. You need serious help
Anyway if you still insist you can have some custom blade maker make a large smart balde & use Magic 77. That is the only rubber I know of that may partially help choppers with a decent looper torture index.
If you have good flat hitting forehand, you can go with wide (stiff) pips (with thicker sponge) instead of spinny inverted on the forehand.
Almost all wide (stiff) pips with sponge are of frictioned pips type. So you are in luck there
If you are capable of playing close to the table , you can go with a frictionless type long pips like Reach C-801, Mo Avalox or Globe Mo Wang 3 on the backhand .Tibhar Dtec Ox may be used by billions of Indian women because of Manika Batra but sorry, it is garbage in the 40+ plastic ball era.
If you can play double winged chopping , one choice is to use frictioned OX long pips on the backhand like Magic 77 & use a frictionless type wide (stiff) pips with sponge on the forehand. This is gives a better spin contrast than using either frictioned pips both sides or frictionless pips both sides.
So what frictionless wide (stiff) pips are available ? I am not sure of any after the 2008 frictionless pips ban when one of the best frictionless pips rubbers , Butterfly Resilon was banned as collateral damage since the ban was aimed at frictionless slim (flex) pips, almost all of them by Dr.Neubauer.
So sorry , anywhere you turn , you are out of luck as a chopper, I guess that is your manifest end destiny LOL
You can try a medium pips like Friendship 563 or 799 . The spin contrast between a medium pips & long pips will be lower but that is the best you can do with what you got on the market whether on ITTF LARC or not.