Great rally @ Westchester Feb14 Open

FWIW, at Spin NYC, Timo Boll had mentioned to me that he chooses the heaviest T05 sheets available.

zeio wrote: Eugene is currently using T05 SP on forehand and backhand. He "primes" his forehand with 4 layers of DHS water-based glue. He boosts on his backhand only. He turned over his Viscaria(forehand side as backhand and vice versa) to use after playing Fan Zhendong at the Grand Final in Doha, citing that the idea flashed into his mind during training.

Matt Pimple wrote: assiduous wrote: pimples, where do you get this inside information about the pros? assi, from sponsored higher level players in Germany who receive rubbers that are different than the off-the shelve ones we buy. They also sometimes poractice with the pros or know them through their sponsors and their rubbers are another level up.

It was posted on one of the European forums that a forummer directly asked Dima Ovtcharov about his Tenergies and Dima had said that he used regular Tenergies but meticulously selected by weight and uniformity and feeling. He said something along the lines that he chooses approximately one out of ten by weight, by looking at it and by feeling (he meant feeling it with his fingers).

Which posed the question - if he (as elite players do) changes his rubbers after every day or two of practicing, that means he needs 7 rubbers per week. Well, let's say only 5. That means that every week he has to go through 50 brand new rubbers, open them all up, weigh them and probe them with his fingers. What do they do with the other 45 rubbers? The plastic envelopes are cut, rubbers are taken out of the package... I guess they buy so many for his club and he is given first choice. And maybe someone else is weighing them for him...

Matt Pimple wrote: assiduous wrote: pimples, where do you get this inside information about the pros? assi, from sponsored higher level players in Germany who receive rubbers that are different than the off-the shelve ones we buy. They also sometimes poractice with the pros or know them through their sponsors and their rubbers are another level up.

Edited by jrscatman - 02/28/2014 at 12:48pm

Eugene is currently using T05 SP on forehand and backhand. He "primes" his forehand with 4 layers of DHS water-based glue. He boosts on his backhand only. He turned over his Viscaria(forehand side as backhand and vice versa) to use after playing Fan Zhendong at the Grand Final in Doha, citing that the idea flashed into his mind during training.

Edited by zeio - 02/28/2014 at 11:21am

pimples, where do you get this inside information about the pros?

slevin wrote: Kewei Li (who of course, plays from way back so has different equipment requirement) used the Mizutani blade when I took a few lessons from him a few months ago - I thought he'd use a defensive blade. Nasty FH when he twiddles to using his Tenergy side.

Are you sure he wasn't just using it for coaching? Last year after the Badger Open final (which he lost 2-4 against Eugene Wang) I asked him about his paddle and he was playing with BTY Joo See Hyuk blade.

beeray1 wrote: Eugene uses t05 FH t80 BH on Viscaria last time I knew.  Guessing Kai is Viscaria H3 T05fx?

wang equipment:
http://www.butterflyonline.com/static.asp?htmltemplate=bio_e_wang.html

I wonder if he boosts his rubbers.
maybe he doesn't but he probably changes his rubbers every other week.
he has somewhat of a similar style to appelgren who's been mentioned a lot here lately.

as for the other guy, great rally but you could tell he was forcing it to the edge, which generally means at some point you crumble down.


Edited by puppy412 - 02/28/2014 at 12:26am

GMan4911 wrote: slevin wrote: GMan4911 wrote: I heard that Kai trains at the Lily Yip TTC You heard wrong... I remember where I read it - in this thread http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=54190   He trains at NJTTC.  Don't know if that is still current though.

Wrong again

I started that thread. He was much later, living with the owner of the Westchester club & has been affiliated with them since. No comment on his LYTTC story...

Edited by slevin - 02/27/2014 at 11:14pm

I find his footwork more amazing than his BH. He's going to gain some power as he gets a little bigger. He hasn't reached his ceiling yet.

I heard that Kai trains at the Lily Yip TTC

Edited by GMan4911 - 02/27/2014 at 10:21pm

Purett wrote: im just wondering how that kid stays that good without practice

He doesn't practice? I thought he'd be ever present at Westchester TTC ...

im just wondering how that kid stays that good without practice

slevin wrote: assiduous wrote: man, this guy has a nice away from the table BH A bit unrelated to the thread but: he plays with soft rubber on his BH (T05 fx - I saw his blade last year at a local tournament). So does Bochao Li (ex-CNT, Polish Super League player in NJ) who has a good away from the table BH as well.