Nastiest blade you may ever see.

Beware, if you're opponents rubber looks like this, you are screwed. A guy at my old club uses this rubber, cooked in the sun until shiny and hard like glass. Worse than any anti or pips, just nasty, nasty stuff. A 60 year old guy who doesnt move used it and handily beat 1900+ rated players with it almost every time by blocks and chop blocks and other crap. Just...the nastiest thing to play against.

Also, it's black on the other side, so it's black and brown...with screws in it...

good thing its illegal or we would all be in trouble

bumpernets19 wrote: i wouldn't touch that with a 39 & 1/2 ft. pole

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. You really...are... a heel!

popperlocker wrote: that guy probably was a old school long pip user. i really don't think this blade improved the old mans game. you can get the same result from frictionless long pips

Yeah, he never used pips...he's just had this type of setup his whole playing career, he never played in tournaments. Apparently it happened by accident, left it in his car between coming to the club and it baked and then he just kinda went with it. People haaaaate it though, and the guy is just a pain in the ass, constantly talking smack the moment he walks in the place as loud as he can manage. People hate him, won't play singles with him, he just plays with the new guys until they get too sick of him. They stole his previous racket and just destroyed it I imagine, he had to get a new one, which the guy who runs the place made and gave to him for some reason, despite being the focus of much of his ragging, but he's a quality guy, Danny who runs the place.

if you look at it in a different light, these people who use illegal stuff are actually very beneficial for you. playing a speed gluer is like playing with timo boll and playing an illegal pip user is like playing a joo se hyuk. you get super spinny pushes and loops and chops and weird balls

I would love it if the guy came to my club!  I would benefit greatly from playing against him.  This is my worst nightmare...an old, experienced guy with glassy rubbers.  Unfortunately I never see them in practice and see nothing BUT them in tournaments.  Well, it feels like that sometimes.

Nastier than my PF4-016?

dual700 wrote: Nastier than my PF4-016? http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30013&PID=362721   Had hard time removing the rubbers, went back to Indonesia, met Rokphish, he gave that blade + the dunlop to a guy who repairs blade. 2 days later, both blade were clean, like new. $4 for both..

Jonan wrote: popperlocker wrote: that guy probably was a old school long pip user. i really don't think this blade improved the old mans game. you can get the same result from frictionless long pips Yeah, he never used pips...he's just had this type of setup his whole playing career, he never played in tournaments. Apparently it happened by accident, left it in his car between coming to the club and it baked and then he just kinda went with it. People haaaaate it though, and the guy is just a pain in the ass, constantly talking smack the moment he walks in the place as loud as he can manage. People hate him, won't play singles with him, he just plays with the new guys until they get too sick of him. They stole his previous racket and just destroyed it I imagine, he had to get a new one, which the guy who runs the place made and gave to him for some reason, despite being the focus of much of his ragging, but he's a quality guy, Danny who runs the place.

Solution: I'll come to your club... wait for the guy to show up, pretend to be interested in the racket (Wow that's a classic! Can I see that blade sir?) I take it and run. Of course, next week when he walks in with another accidentally baked racket you could be back to square one...

toughest guys to play.......... half of hits are anti............the other half play like normal invert

Aquaman wrote: walleyeguy7 wrote: good thing its illegal or we would all be in trouble I think it can be argued that there's nothing illegal about it.  The guy didn't modify, treat, or change it in any way.  It just got that way by itself--after 20 years.

Yes but you're missing the idea that it did in fact "change" - probably even from it's first chemical composition.

Look at it this way... I'm a long pips player and I accidentally leave my longpips bat out in the car under the window... now the long pips are melted, inconsistent and slick as hell. Should I be able to play with them?