Darker Legato Point Carbon Review

April 5, 2010

The Darker blades are made in Japan. I have a special affection for the Darker blades. I tested their one ply Hinoki blades before. You can read its review here. Few months back I tried their Legato blade. The Darker Legato is a good allround blade. It has very excellent control. It’s not a blade [...]

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Darker Legato with TTMaster Punto, XIOM Vega Pro, Butterfly Tenergy 25

April 4, 2010

I like those Japanese made Darker blades. The Darker brand produces some very good 1 ply kiso hinoki blades. I have reviewed them before on spinmantra.com.
The Darker Legato is a OFF blade according to their rating. In my test I have found it to be an ALL- blade. In my experience with many brands [...]

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Donic Akkadi L2 Long Pips Review

March 13, 2010

If I don’t write little about Donic Akkadi L2, I should not be writing about any long pips at all. The DONIC Akkadi L2 is very powerful defensive long pips. It has very less friction. I can say it is close to a frictionless long pips rubber. The pips are not highly flexible as TTMaster [...]

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Where can I rent table tennis blades/bats/frames/rackets and rubbers?

February 7, 2010

“Where can I rent table tennis or ping pong blades, bats, frame or rackets and rubbers?” I hear this question so often from serious players as well as novices alike. To some, the equipment junkie-ism takes them through a journey of one equipment after another. They are so thirsty to try one equipment after another. [...]

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A XIOM Allround blade, XIOM Magellan

February 4, 2010

Have you seen the XIOM catalog? Have you looked at their blades list and the blade performance chart? If you have, then you may be one of those who are confused by its rating. Hit feel, Flex, High Speed Performance, Rebound Speed etc… in the performance chat. This can confuse you. This rating is for [...]

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Chinese brands blades

February 3, 2010

I often get chances to test blades from Chinese brands. They are made in China and they are owned by Chinese brands too. The brands that came to my attention are (1) Kokutaku (2) Grand Dragon and (3) Sanwei. These Chinese brands make whole range of table tennis equipments - from ball to tables.
The big [...]

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Who does not hate Insufficient address!

February 2, 2010

Out of thousands of packages shipped out from TableTennisStore.US every year, some packages come back to the office. Thanks to USPS (United States Postal Service) for telling the real problem. The packages that come back have insufficient address.
The packages that come back to the table tennis store cost money to send out again. This situation [...]

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XIOM Vega Europe Review

January 29, 2010

Isn’t the life too busy? It has become busier these days. I don’t get a lot of time to test new rubbers. I try to find time, but sometimes it is hard. I have written a blog on XIOM Vega Pro a while back on SpinMantra. The plan for testing XIOM Vega Europe was postponed [...]

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Removing glue sheet from the blade

January 28, 2010

I hope this article will help the pimples players rather than inverted players. The pimples players who use no sponge version of pimples attach the rubber to the blade with glue sheet. After long time usage, the glue sheet becomes very much permanently attached to the blade. It is hard to remove. How do you [...]

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What Color and it’s effect on spin and speed

January 27, 2010

Green, Pink, Magenta… Oh No. We are not talking about the funky colors of rubbers that you see on a racket bought from Walmart. We are talking about the professional table tennis rubbers available in market that you can buy and attach to a blade.

The official colors of table tennis or ping pong is Red [...]

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