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ALC + Hinoki is not that common or popular anymore - Butterfly discontinued for environmental reasons supposedly the Garaydia series though the Amultart and the Primorac are still in production. That said, you have some good options now which were not available even a year ago. First is the...

World Junior champ promo...

@piligrim 's main point was still pretty clear - it was a weight requirement which required wood with a rare density to meet it. The framing affects the perception. We could call them custom blades, heavier blades, or blades with woods that occur in less than 1% of manufactured blades of that...

Pretty much. The original ball has variation in dot sizes and positioning for tracking and how it works with the Spinsight data processors is an open question. But just marking up a ball with dots is not going to work easily without either replicating the pattern on an existing ball precisely...

Data/sources don't speak for themselves, everything is seen through a lens of some sort. Convincing data to one person can lack credibility to someone else. We aren't all going to see eye to eye on such things, but not all such disagreements have significant value on a TT forum.

I think matters will be about what those extra revs give you. Because there were extra revs on 09c and 03 vs 80 but what does that mean and how is that compensated for by 80s speed? but it wasn't like out of the world extra revs, maybe 5% and what does 5% mean in a TT match? The practical...

Many player specific blades are listed as custom made, including Cheng I Ching. My focus here is on the differences between what a player is advertised as using and what is commercially sold using their brand and in such cases where there are differences, whether it is something that deserves...

They can be, but I would rather the topic be discussed with the specifics, not under the assumption that because it is a Tino Boll blade without commercial serial numbers delivered to Timo Boll, it suddenly assumes magical custom properties for that reason. We don't say that because Boll got...

You seem to be more willing than I am to overlook when amateur players claim that customization is going on with pros equipment with hardly any evidence of it in specfic blade playing features. For example, based on our conversation, Zhang Jike is using customized Viscarias because they don't...

This doesn't sound quite right, but at this point, it's not worth digging into (his equipment video is 41 minutes long). Not sure what "commercial national 41 degree" means, and I know you are citing Heming. But basically, what you are saying is that if I buy this rubber...

Wouldn't be surprised if some of the OEMs doing business for Joola and Xiom were the same but even if not, anyone who has used Joola blades in recent years know that they are similar in some ways to Xiom. I think they even used the same language for at least one composite material found in...

I just missed where that was said in the video and was asking for a reference. No need to resort to name calling, we all make mistakes. You admitted to making one when you claimed Timo's rubbers were tuned for him, but had no reference to support it. In the video, Timo goes further and says...

He will pick the third option - develop something new and then have Joola make an inferior commercial version of it that they can make money off while the special version that wins events will be available to Hugo himself alone. PS: To be clear, this is the position I am pushing back on.

What does "customize" mean in that context for Heming Hu, since the same phrase will be used for top players but with clearly different connotations but which are not always clear to a outsider? That is what I am pushing back against, this belief that a top pro (Ma Long, Fan Zhendong) is always...

Okay - I have to go ERT - I hate going ERT: It is true that companies can and do in some cases give certain things to their top pros that they do not give to other players or the public. This is more true for rubbers than for blades but even then, this is overstated to claim that pros get...

So did Timo say the blades were customized for him? And how?

I thought it was relaunched but maybe not. We are discussing whether it is some special privilege of pros or whether usually, it is in the best of interests of the companies to make these things commercially available and they just don't do so not because they are especially privileging the...

The W968 is commercially available. Even when Schlager won with a Primorac Carbon and the Schlager Carbon was created, the Schlager Carbon was commercially available. Anyone can get a custom blade made by Butterfly at expense to them, pros just don't have to pay. But this is a different...

In the cases I have heard this rumored, alternative blade the player actually uses is either commercially available (and sometimes more expensive) or just something that evolved with a switch in preferences on the part of the player which it would not really be worth it to adjust the commercial...

Thanks. Again, you're the one calling them special, ZJK said he got exactly the same thing with respect to Viscarias, they just don't make the blades look exactly the same as the commercial and number them differently as they are tracked as part of a different inventory process. Most people...