Edamame for protein and carbs

October 30, 2008

I can’t eat my regular meals on a tournament day. I don’t eat rice, pizzas and burgers before the matches. If I eat rice, it takes a while to digest and makes me sleepy. I try to live with fruits and trail-mix to get energy. That is not working for me anymore.
I have turned towards [...]

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High impact resistant wood - willow

October 27, 2008

The classic defenders ask for an important specification in a table tennis blade - how good the blade can defend a fast traveling table tennis ball on its surface. Leave the speed of the ball, the heavy top spin can cause high vibrations on the blade.
The impact resistance of the wood is important for any [...]

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TSP BJorn Table Tennis Rubber Review

October 25, 2008

I have tried the TSP BJorn with an impression that it can provide the benefits of TSP Real rubber but with soft sponge and more speed. I would say I was disappointed. Among the TSP offensive rubbers like REAL, ACTOR and BJORN, the BJORN does not have enough power as others.
The power can be only gained [...]

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England preparing for Olympics

October 20, 2008
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How to cut the table tennis rubbers?

October 19, 2008

The table tennis players avoid it. I mean cutting the rubbers. It takes time. When you can’t cut it to the size of the blade, it keeps bothering you. It is art - a neatly cut rubber is like winning a match.
The professional table tennis players buy table tennis blades and rubbers separately. Then they assemble [...]

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XIOM Novus Swedish Jazz Table Tennis Blade Review

October 19, 2008

I have tried XIOM Jazz blade with XIOM ZETA Max on the forehand and XIOM ZETA Max on the backhand. The XIOM Jazz is made of pure wood – a combination of Kiso Hinoki, Ayus and Koto. It is a 5 plies blade. The weight of Jazz is 82 gm and the whole racket with [...]

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XIOM Omega I Asian Table Tennis Rubber Review

October 17, 2008

The Butterfly brand makes excellent table tennis products. They have come up with a new high tension rubber named Tenergy 05 to help the players who like to do speed glue before the ITTF ban. I have been asked by some players “is there a similar to Tenergy in the XIOM range that they can [...]

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Has your table tennis rubber expired?

October 14, 2008

I’m not a prophet. I don’t want to be called a liar also. Still, I see the table tennis rubbers that we use are using now are going to have expiry dates, It’s like we see expiry dates on food and drugs. Haven’t you seen “best used before” notice on the food and drug labels? [...]

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Butterfly Tenergy 05 1.9 mm Table Tennis Rubber Review

October 10, 2008

I would like to rate Butterfly Tenery 05 as a top spin drive, counter drive and a looping rubber. It’s top sheet is similar to Butterfly Tackifire Drive – similar also to the top sheet of XIOM Omega I. The sponge is hard and I can’t compare its sponge to anything available in the market. The [...]

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