Armstrong Twister Long Pips Review

January 2, 2011

One of the best quality rubbers I have ever tied. This is extremely deceptive as TTMaster Punto. Talk about control and slower speed for long pips, this is it.
The Armstrong Twister long pips come in two versions. The Armstrong Twister is a close to table long pips rubber. This is the vanila version. The Armstrong [...]

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Stiga Tube Defensive Blade Review

January 1, 2011

The Stiga Tube Defensive blade is a very light weight blade weighing 78gm. This is due to the way it is constructed. The handle is hollow, and that improves the feeling. An year ago I tried the Stiga Carbon WRB and the handle is pretty much the same. I really liked it’s handle as it [...]

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Texas becomes a place for World Peace

December 5, 2010

Plano, once USAA magazine forecast it as the future of table tennis. With a thriving community of players, this place becomes the venue for another World Peace Tournament. Jon Liu who is the president of the Plano Table Tennis club made this happen. Here are the winners:
Open Shuai Wang, Tom Fang, Andrew Chen/Chance Friend
U2250 [...]

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TTMaster Defensive Blades

October 31, 2010

TTMaster makes two defensive blades named Sensitive Defense and Evolution Defense. I have tried both of them. These blades are simple and elegant, close to craftsmanship with Darker blades. They are not really modern defensive blades although they are made of balsa and are faster. They are defensive for close to the table game.
The handle [...]

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Go Natural!

October 16, 2010

There is no shortage of sports drinks anywhere. Look at the beverage section isle of any grocery store. Gatorade comes as the favorite sports drink of table tennis players. Then comes Powerade. The instant energy boosting drinks also are favorites of many. Heard of Monster?
The sports drinks come to rescue us in an intensive work [...]

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Blades of weight in the range 78 ~ 84gm

October 10, 2010

Here is a list of blades that have weight in the range 78 ~ 84 gm:
TSP Euro - 78gm
TSP Kotony - 82gm
XIOM Aria Lite - 78gm
XIOM Diva - 82gm
XIOM Acro - 80gm
XIOM V1 - 84gm
They are some good affordable ALL blades from XIOM and TSP.

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XIOM Solo Blade

September 6, 2010

XIOM Solo is an offensive blade with softer feeling.

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Donic Akkadi L2 Vs TTMaster Punto long pips

September 3, 2010

The pips structure of both Akkadi and Punto are different. The highly noticeable difference is the speed. The No sponge version of Punto is half slower than Donic Akkadi L2.
The deception is very high with TTMaster Punto. It’s pips create more variation.
The Akkadi has more cutting power, so cuts well against very high [...]

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Dr.Neubauer Fighter long pips Review

August 16, 2010

In the table tennis world, there are few manufacturers who focuses greatly on the defensive products. The TSP brand is one of them. They have their legendary TSP Curl series and the Reflex system paddles to help the defenders. Next to the TSP, it is Dr.Neubauer who has put a lot of resources into producing [...]

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Entourage, the HBO series try ping pong

August 9, 2010

John Stamos hates ping pong. Did he? No. He did not say that. He said he is not good at it. He took a long 6 week training to support his act of playing ping pong in the entourage HBO series.
Ping Pong is becoming a topic in movies and series recently. Are they serious about [...]

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