Agree, technique & tactics are 90% more important than equipments, only coach can decide the best equipment for players. What's happening now is players themselves switching from one rubber to another without understanding on their game. Eventually destroy their game & interest in table tennis
When you have the skill, you can do well with bad equipment (it would be an improvisation of a technique, not the proper technique at play), but everything will be subpar compared to your potential and the experience will be poor too. If you are a beginner - get proper equipment. Sport games require proper equipment. You cannot learn TT with cheap "rackets" that don't have speed and grip. You cannot develop proper technique. I often hear "once I learn to play better, I'll get a proper racket" - you will not learn to play better, because you cannot use proper technique with bad equipment. With bad equipment you are tossing out about 70% of the game, and only can do the remaining 30% which is all positioning and some basic drives. Oh and also feel is way better with a good racket and a ball (yes, balls differ too, and matter too).
Unless u change to a pips, anti or something. But some people keep worrying about their equipments, always changing and experimenting without even realising that its their bad fundamentals n inferior mechanics. No footwork, no skill sets, no multiballs, etc
Equipment surely isnt as important as some people think and ofc technique is way more important but i disagree that its only 5%. For example i jumped on the hybrid train playing different kind of hard hybrid rubbers and it was okay, but since im back to way softer rubbers T05 FX and i feel the ball so much better than before, i have a decently higher hit% now (especially on opening against backspin, recieve and on the wierd balls when ur late). Since the rubber isnt as fast thou it requires a decently fast blade, which i have now with the Ovtcharov ALC and which gives me enough power, when it was too slow before with the allwood blade. So for me i would say its more like 20% difference. Another example is my buddy who sticked to his allwood blade with beginner rubbers forever (too soft and thin) and when i gave him a carbon blade (Freitas ALC) with better rubbers (D09c, T05) he made a huge jump in performance right away, beating much higher players he never did before within a week. His forehand topspins got from fast and hard to block to pretty much unblockable (unless in peferfect position) and he pretty much got from 1500 TTR to 1750TTR in Germany raiting here now. So for him it made an even bigger difference.
Agree, technique & tactics are 90% more important than equipments, only coach can decide the best equipment for players. What's happening now is players themselves switching from one rubber to another without understanding on their game. Eventually destroy their game & interest in table tennis
Amen. There's enough details in this game to consciously focus on. Why introduce another variable? Just stick with what you have.
fast blade with much control with hard chinese rubbers
just come back onto the game ❤️
Testing Equipment ist 85% of the fun 😊
When you have the skill, you can do well with bad equipment (it would be an improvisation of a technique, not the proper technique at play), but everything will be subpar compared to your potential and the experience will be poor too. If you are a beginner - get proper equipment. Sport games require proper equipment. You cannot learn TT with cheap "rackets" that don't have speed and grip. You cannot develop proper technique. I often hear "once I learn to play better, I'll get a proper racket" - you will not learn to play better, because you cannot use proper technique with bad equipment. With bad equipment you are tossing out about 70% of the game, and only can do the remaining 30% which is all positioning and some basic drives.
Oh and also feel is way better with a good racket and a ball (yes, balls differ too, and matter too).
Yes but we are talking about equipment junkies. A fairly standard bat with inverted sticky rubbers are almost similar.
Unless u change to a pips, anti or something. But some people keep worrying about their equipments, always changing and experimenting without even realising that its their bad fundamentals n inferior mechanics. No footwork, no skill sets, no multiballs, etc
Equipment surely isnt as important as some people think and ofc technique is way more important but i disagree that its only 5%.
For example i jumped on the hybrid train playing different kind of hard hybrid rubbers and it was okay, but since im back to way softer rubbers T05 FX and i feel the ball so much better than before, i have a decently higher hit% now (especially on opening against backspin, recieve and on the wierd balls when ur late).
Since the rubber isnt as fast thou it requires a decently fast blade, which i have now with the Ovtcharov ALC and which gives me enough power, when it was too slow before with the allwood blade.
So for me i would say its more like 20% difference.
Another example is my buddy who sticked to his allwood blade with beginner rubbers forever (too soft and thin) and when i gave him a carbon blade (Freitas ALC) with better rubbers (D09c, T05) he made a huge jump in performance right away, beating much higher players he never did before within a week. His forehand topspins got from fast and hard to block to pretty much unblockable (unless in peferfect position) and he pretty much got from 1500 TTR to 1750TTR in Germany raiting here now.
So for him it made an even bigger difference.
that is valid. 20% is probably realistic too
Please invest in better audio equipment, notably a microphone
Yes!