In my Stiga main era, lightweight is king

Imagine a 500 ml can of beer. Pack that into your bag with an extra tablespoon of water. That's how heavy a TT player's game day gear can be. I'm serious: my main Stiga Sense racket (185+ g), spare Penhold-config Butterfly CAF racket (~135 g), hard case and ball (~215 g) come to 0.54 kg, and I already have everything I need in addition to a good table and partner who may be barehanded if grip versatile. It's such an abbreviated sport and such a neglected cause of TT's growing popularity. If I've just made the perfect case against slacking from the sport, why then do I still feel so reluctant to play on usual game days? The weight factor makes the convenience of TT king in all of competitive sports. Good or bad? For amateurs, it lowers the barriers to entry -- if any table tennis enthusiast becomes clubbable to the main tables in an overpopulated residential area, the standards will also tend towards the average, the median. Myths may be perpetuated about the existence of certain cliques, for example the weekday night group is "very professional", only for curious newcomers to be disappointed. Because nobody seriously believes it's a moral thing to gatekeep and ostracize their neighbours, for example when there's a friendly competition or the club opens up its grounds to the public. Of late, so light is my bag I find it hard not to always think real table tennis is elsewhere. In the spirit of abbreviation, which is a topic worthy of another post, I've avoided reviewing my equipment because that's so yesterday. I've come to agree, with the YouTube uncle and the widespread sentiment, that as long as it's decent (and I might add not weighing like a brick), talk of equipment is overrated.