How to glue your table tennis racket l Dimitrij Ovtcharov 

Thanks Gabriel! Nice that you play with the same blade.. I try to find heavy blades so I get more power. My one is 90 grams.

@@DimaOvtcharov thanks dima for the reply! Im very happy that pros this day are more accessible then in the past! I wiill cheer for you in tokyo! Great content!

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@@DimaOvtcharov looking forward to buy your blade Dima, how is it feel compared to patrick fransiska's blade?

Silver

@@xxninjaxxhd7236 bronze in single match

His second singles bronze

Thanks!!

Are you russian?

use ice cream stick is also possible.

Why tape only the bottom

@@randsp3c709 the tape adds a little weight. few grams actually make a difference to some players. I don´t know how the tape makes the racket slower though. Taping the bottom saves the rubbers from being ripped off if u hit the table when pushing with downspin.

What type of glue ddid he use? That would be a great help.

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How ? Did u figure it out ?

@@prodbyaye8751 6:24 in the video he mentioned 2 ways to lay the rubber (hard or soft). The harder method is probably how you make it bounce better. Imagine landing a ball on concrete vs carpet.

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I used to use scissors that way, but got a much nicer bevel using a long and very sharp knife. Trimmed the rubber off roughly and fast with big scissors ( ~5 mm overhang), then with the knife, wetting the rubber on the smooth side with water and (very small amount of) soap as a surfactant/lubricant. The knife pulled down from the smooth side towards the sponge/racquet side in long strokes, resting the blade lightly against the wood. About 10 strokes of the knife completes the job. Later when I got better at this got about 3mm overhang with the scissors and then glue the other side's rubber and same thing with scissors. Then I could do both sides with the knife without waiting. This got a nice professional job that looked like it was done with a machine. It always puzzled me to see pro-players with up to 2mm (Ovtcharov excepted) overhang around the edge of their blades. That overhang is useless mass that is actually quite a bit of weight that contributes nothing to the strokes and takes a few feet/sec off the fastest whipping loop or smash, creates extra turbulence-drag, also slowing down the final velocity at ball-strike, and represents an area a pro would never come close to in a stroke. That overhang's mass' only useful attribute would be to lower transverse wobble instability and to widen (slightly) the sweet-spot. But if you want that, it would be even better to have an extra 2mm actual blade around the perimeter, and a good rubber-bevel from the blade-edge.

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@@TTSmashCity what blade is he using?

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@@TheFoeni007 The Ovtcharov Innerforce ALC blade.

Once a rubber is glued on the racket you should not reglue that same rubber again. If you do that, it will give you a very different playing feeling. The bounce might be unregular.

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На ютубе можно ставить сразу автоперевод

Is there a certain side that you want to put the spinner rubber on FH or BH? I'm learning what rubber characteristics do you need on the BH vs FH? Also I thought you were supposed to use a sponge between the Blade & Rubber?

​@@BuffaloNickel9 Most pro's have black as forehand. It's been said that the black rubber is grippier and harder than red. Nowadays with european rubbers it's not that pronounced. With hard Chinese rubbers black is certainly mire grippy and tacky.

I once removed a pre-assembled rubber from the blade and when i boosted it with a booster and tried to re-glue it...i was shock to know that rubber was smaller in size than the actual blade...i called the guy who assembled it for me...now i know the reason..xD

tensor rubbers shrink even without stretching