A huge day in the history of OOAK Forum, where one of the table tennis greats, Joo Se Hyuk, offer us an exclusive interview! Joo his humble and open in his answers, and gives some interesting and sometimes surprising responses. Read the Full Joo Se Hyuk Interview here. Some […]
I’ve had my eye on the TSP Triple series for quite a while, mainly because of it’s very high spin rating which really appeals to me. I never got around to trying one, since (1) I didn’t know which one to choose, and (2) I didn’t think they were really […]
OOAK forum now offers Live video of ITTF table tennis matches here! Many streams are offered, so you can see every match that the ITTF publishes. Easy viewing with ‘Full Screen’ view available also. All matches are in Flash and loaded from the ITTF video stream via your nearest CDN […]
Interview with the Managing Director of Avallo AVX a.k.a. Avalox I first came to know about the Avalox brand through the reputation of some of their blades, which were used by several former World Champions. Through my involvement with the OOAK Shop I got to know Mr Koay, a former […]
Darker Spline P1, D1, D2 and D3 table tennis blades Darker has just release (late 2012) a new series of defensive blades named Spline. Unlike almost every other Darker blade, these blades do not appear to contain Kiso Hinoki plies. It seems these blades are different enough to justify […]
Darker Hinoki 3 ply MAI GOUBAN Review A preliminary review with details and pictures of the beautiful Darker Mai Gouban kiso Hinoki blade. ~ I just took some pictures of the beautiful Darker Mai Gouban blade, so I thought I’d share the pictures and my thoughts here. Darker discontinued this […]
Video review of the new plastic table tennis ball Here is another review of the new “Poly” ball, the plastic ball that the ITTF proposes should replace the current celluloid balls. This detailed video review, from my friend and OOAK forum member Debater. This review outlines how the proposal came […]
Tenergy 80 Review – part 3 In this final part of the Tenergy 80 review, I test the few properties that I missed before, check the ease of removing glue, comment on rubber durability and summarise my conclusions. Counter-looping I think that counter-looping is definitely one of the strengths […]
Butterfly Tenergy 80 Review – Part 2 In this part of the Tenergy 80 review, I take the rubber for a test drive, checking it’s performance during real play, and compare it to other rubbers to see how it stacks up. Test Setup I looked around through my […]
OOAK Shop – New Equipment December 2012 A few new items that have just come into the OOAK Table Tennis Shop: TSP Equipment: TSP T-Rex TSP Flary Silver Carbon TSP Superblade Neo TSP Pimple cleaning brush TSP Rubber Roller & Net height measure TSP Double Protection Sheet TSP Adhesive […]
