Ask The Experts: Min Kim No. 263 Butterfly Table Tennis Question and Answer

Question:

Hi, I am a female senior player. I do play 3 times a week and I’ve been playing with shakehands style about two years. I am a member of KTTCW in Northern Virginia. I am trying to purchase a racket but too many technical terms and choices. I am a little fast pace player consider the age and prefer a lighter than heavy racket. Please give me recommendations with a different racket woods and rubbers with price range. Thank you in advance for your recommendations. 1 I have two rackets – carbon Striga and Butterfly Sriver d13-L 2 Stiga is about two years old and Butterfly is fairly new 3 I am guessing that I like lighter racket with thinner handle.  Butterfly handle is too thick 4 Coach is recommending better or higher quality a racket (better rubber) 5 forehand style – short and fast offensive style 6 backhand style – not reached high level yet so more defensive style 7 I don’t know.  If you recommend, one side rubber and the other with pimpled, I’m willing to try.  But I’ve been using red and black color rubbers. 8 I hope to find better handling, fitting and performing a racket. 9 My budget –  open I hope my answer give you a clue to find a better racket.  Thank you  

Answer: 

This Ask the Experts question was answered by Min Kim. She is the coach at MK Georgia Table Tennis in Duluth, Georgia. Coach Kim’s response is below: