About UltraSpin

UltraSpin is written and edited by Hal Markham, a table tennis player and equipment writer. Hal covers blades, rubbers and the details of how they actually play — first for a Chinese-language readership, now here in English.

The deepest table tennis equipment knowledge in the world lives in Chinese — WeChat equipment columns, Zhihu deep dives, club forums, and tens of thousands of buyer reviews. Almost none of it reaches English-speaking players.

UltraSpin bridges that gap. For every product we review, we collect opinions from at least three independent Chinese-language sources, then synthesize them into an original English review: consensus, disagreements, our own rating, and who the gear is actually for.

We are not a translation site. Every review is an original work built on multi-source evidence, with full attribution to the communities it draws from. Read our methodology.