You don’t have to do only one side at a time dude! Just put a piece of CLEAN paper on the side that you’re not working on. The glue doesn’t stick to the paper.

Don’t remove the DHS peel! That surface is very easily scratched. Scratches on that rubber have no grip!

Tip for you dude, put some books on the just glued blade for a few hours for better results.

Yes

Its sound counterintuitive but this is just how table tennis glue works, first it’s a liquid, then it dries and can stick to itself

"Best" is relative. It might be best for Ma Long but might not suit you at all. A €150 max blade will not hinder your performance at any point

Só then, It is not an oil. Or only the Surface looks dry. But, the liquid is ALL wet inside the cake sponges pores/holes.

Glue it a few times a month and maintain the consistency of your perfect technique. 😅

That was genuinely tough to look at... Even the finished racket... Very clumsy

@@fortitude1208 why?

Me too. I always Felt like H3 original was better performing.

I have used h3 neo for some time and now i tried a boosted h3 original and for some reason it feels so stable away from the table its crazy

looks like haifu seamoon

It's pretty remarkable 😂.

Also at non pro level there is a lot of boosting, what's the issue in the end? it's admittedly a grey zone from IITF. They know they can't check on it since the very same booster oil/chemicals is what they use in the factories to make them playable. Since there is a limited time of effect after boosting players do it themselves when purchasing new rubbers. I'm from the speed glue era (old) and the stuff you had back then had at least 3 times more effect (yes properly speed glued sriver kicks any modern rubbers with booster), modern booster oil is no danger for health either. I hope next rule changes will include this and the serve issues.

@@dennisgustafsson1206 I'm highlighting his honesty. There's no grey zone on the topic as the ITTF states you can't change the properties of the topsheet and boosters do. Therefore, they're illegal. But indeed there's no way to check. I'm also from the speed glue era, played in 1st national league in Belgium when Saive was world number 1 and trained at the Borussia Düsseldorf in 2015-2016. I was using Samba and a huge amount of speed glue. The switch to the P-Ball and 40 mm drastically decreased speed and spin. They could easily fix the serve issue with the Hawk Eye. The Chinese team used the Hawk Eye in 2020 just before a competition. 15 cameras and it works perfectly. During a match the umpire called WCQ serve. WCQ challenged the call and...the angle was 26 degrees BUT what the umpire did NOT look at was the head and the body: WCQ was hiding the ball with both his head and his body. This was VERY clear with the Hawk Eye. So, basically the serve issue can be fixed easily with this Hawk Eye.

Some of those people who boost definitely think that "all pros do". What about Boll?

@@bookoflists Why would you NOT boost and let the other top players benefit from the advantage of boosting???

@@freddupont9605 I am not even judging boosting. I am just questioning the convenient assertion that everyone does it. Was my question not clear?

I think he meant 60 AUD per rubber. As far as 7-ply wood blades, get a Yinhe U2. It's the #1 blade in China for beginners and is only around 20 USD. It has a crisper feel and bigger sweet spot than PG7.

@@91bajaka no worries! $80 AUD, I didn’t have a price limit as I can afford more if I wanted, I just don’t want to anymore I never tried those blades you mentioned so I can’t comment on them. Once I found a blade I liked, I stopped trying anything else, realising ill just get caught into a never ending obsession about equipment

@ Thank you Coach for your prompt reply!! Understand your point, will try

@@OSA0 nope

The MX-P shrinks quite a bit in my experience, and that's even without booster.

@@anuragsaha145 if you don’t stretch the rubber first, it won’t shrink

​@@heminghu1434ESN rubbers shrink because they are expanted from the factory boosting. They also smaller if u dont stretch at gluing.

Difference of factory boost vs self-boost

Noob

@@terenceau-duong780 all illegal, a rubber out of the box is legal.

It is allowed. H3 is designed to be boosted, all the users of it do especially the highest level players. Only thing illegal is if the paddle fails a voc test.

@ All chemical and mechanical things that you do to a rubber is not allowed. H3 might be designed for boosting but that just makes it a useless rubber. Boosting at the supplier (preboosted) is allowed, but not by a player.

@ In the ITTF Handbook, rule 2.4. 7 states “The racket covering shall be used without any physical, chemical or other treatment”.

@@henrikwikstrom5705 correct citation. It is not spelled out by the text but in practice this refers to the rubber only. The rubber is approved by ittf, not the sponge. You can even change your sponge. The manufacturer of course does this, same rubber different sponge with no official indication like the rubber code. This means customization by boosting is allowed so long as it passes 4.0 total thickness and voc content. There is no way to prove otherwise actually, so it can't even be illegal if it's unenforceable.

@@alexcook8164 Illegal is illegal, whether it's enforceable or not. What you are saying is it's not a crime if I don't get caught. And boosting the sponge does change the characteristics of the rubber. One of the effects of boosting is to swell the sponge thereby adding tension to the topsheet. So you have changed the rubber and violated the rules. Boosting is just the new speedglue. Lance Armstrong was stripped of his cycling medals and banned because he used peds. Just because everyone else does it is not a defense. The Chinese all do it so we don't want to offend the Chinese. Whether the ban is a good idea or not is another matter. Speedglue was allegedly banned because of dangerous voc's. Once those were removed, it was still banned. Chinese didn't like it because it gave an advantage to Europeans. Now the advantage is with Chinese. Table tennis needs to grow some cahones.

You boost hard Chinese rubbers, not European style. Those are good to go right away.

​@@alexcook8164 Very few pros don't boost their Tenergy or Dignics. Dignics even feels a little strange without booster. It adds a little control and speed, even for amateurs.

@@beyiTV for non-tensor, maybe but boosting T05, no way. I can't imagine anyone spending 80 dollars on pre tuned butterfly and messing up a fresh sheet with booster. If you know high level players who actually told you they do that, I'm very surprised.

@JohnnyQuach yes I would, barely any professionals play without booster, even on rubbers like tenergy 05 that are already boosted

@@beyiTV My bad, I was wrong. Thanks to Heming setting me straight on this one.