Duality principle as applied to table tennis - Spinverted rubbers

[Rod Lavar]

Any rubber that is easier for you to play with is also easier for your opponnet to play against.
In this first post I talk about spinny inverted rubbers & next post about pips & anti

If you are using a very spinny (or sticky) rubber that will produce lots of spin, it will also react equally violently against incoming spin.
Control is a complicated concept in table tennis. Control as applied to pros means evry little to amateurs. Pros can not only create heavy spins at highest speeds but can eaually control their returns consistently against incoming heavy spins at highest speeds. This is what separates the pros from the amateurs LOL

If you take a rubber like Hurricane with a sticky top sheet but a dead like sponge (Chinese) players boost to soften up the sponge & they get spin from both top sheet & sponge and this can be somewhat harder for an amateur to control while returning opponents' loops but amateurs though amateurs will get more spin in their loops. It is generally very difficult to chop hard with such rubbers but if you can control it the back spin you create will be very heavy as well.
On the other hand European & Japanese inverted rubbers work on a different approach. The top sheets aregenerally that sticky but the pros can cerate enough spins but also at high speeds (especially when boosted up)

[Rod Lavar]

Duality principle also applies to anti & long pips rubbers.

Anti Spin rubbers are easier to play with especially if you are using spinverted on the other side of the rcket.
But then again any rubber that is easier to play with is also equally easier to play against.

Long pips on the other hand is harder to play with compared to anti , espeically in the beginning. Most players who should be using long pips quit too early because they came in with the ilusion that they can master long pips in a week or a month. It takes at least 6 months to an year or more to get a clue as to how to choose & use the right long pips for your style such as blocker or chopper or all round etc . The learning cruve for long pips compared to anti as quite steep.
But the flip side & good news is that once to starting getting the hang of how to us long pips, this makes it eqaully harder for the opponent to play against you. This is why most loopers absolutely hate long pips but anti not that much.