We Challenged Olympic Champion Zhang Jike!

[Dan]

Well, let's face it: We kinda knew that some Donic promotion would happen. In fact, pretty much the whole thingy is promotion or wouldn't have been possible if not for some kind of promo in exchange...
But I for myself expected that, so I can easily ignore it. The only thing I did "not like" about it, is that this clip is only 16 min. long, i.e. short. Wish that it would've been an hour or so and ZJK would have played whole matches against the TTD guys.
Nevertheless, the game vs. Dane was very entertaining, if not spectacular...
Theoretically, I would very probably trade in a national championship title against that kind of one-game-performance by the Dane incl. the experience of playing ZJK.
It sure looked like that ZJK was himself a bit surprised about Dane's performance.
Great stuff.

Hey @\_Kairos_/ glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah we filmed this at Zhang Jike's Academy which is a fully Donic setup. We might release a longer version will see if that's possible. We put in almost every point from the matches. A couple was removed to keep the pacing.

It really was such a surreal experience. Agreed, Dane played out of this world! Was so nice to see Zhang having a great time.

 

[Dan]

Dane was fantastic he deserved 2 blades
Dan and Beast suffered the wrath of ZJK

We sure did haha!

 

[Dan]

I noticed @Dan using the ZJK New Era blade with I presume J1 both sides. Were you just using it for the video or are you switching to it full time? What are your thoughts on the New Era blade and the J1 rubbers?

Hey Josh, yeah I used the New Era blade throughout the whole of the filming. We filmed multiple videos with Zhang which are coming out soon. A review video coming out this Friday

 

[\_Kairos_/]

...We might release a longer version will see if that's possible...

That'd be great...
Kind of a (longer) "Making of" video or some "Behind the scenes" stuff would also be appreciated, but perhaps you have something like that in the pipelines already.

 

[backspacer]

Did you go out to eat with him? Food review?

 

[joshmak10]

Hey Josh, yeah I used the New Era blade throughout the whole of the filming. We filmed multiple videos with Zhang which are coming out soon. A review video coming out this Friday

Great to hear Dan excited for the video! Amazing stuff man

 

[mamedium]

olympic champion skills never go away
Jike looks old but man… the techniques are flawless

 

[piligrim]

Hey Josh, yeah I used the New Era blade throughout the whole of the filming. We filmed multiple videos with Zhang which are coming out soon. A review video coming out this Friday

Should be extended version, remastered version, theatrical edition

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

Hey Gozo, haha love it! Funny enough Beast was saying all his team mates say he plays like Kanak too!

We're releasing a new video with Zhang Jike on Friday, funny enough he actually says I play like Timo... I'll take that ha!

Gozo has the special eye.

 

[Dan]

That'd be great...
Kind of a (longer) "Making of" video or some "Behind the scenes" stuff would also be appreciated, but perhaps you have something like that in the pipelines already.

On it Joe the voice is currently working on a documentary version from the whole trip

 

[Dan]

Should be extended version, remastered version, theatrical edition

Haha love it! Curious, if you were to edit this version what style, or how would you vision this remastered version to look?

 

[d3nium]

@Dan We want some long-form content!

 

[piligrim]

Haha love it! Curious, if you were to edit this version what style, or how would you vision this remastered version to look?

Don't know. I just copied from Hollywood movies

 

[Walalang]

I hope that the ttd team could play with fan zhendong next since he's retired from wtt/ittf and will actually play in germany for the bundesliga and champions league.