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Jesus christ I'm talking to a wall

No, companies are happy to develop and provide custom blades for pros to use, and if the feedback from the pro is good, they tune it down and make it more suitable for the amateur market, then sell commercial blades using the pro's fame and performance. Custom blades aren't rocket science, they...

If you click on the links, the sources are all there, he just translated for your ease of reading

It is not actually always the case for Butterfly to make custom blades different. AFAIK Wong Chun Ting has a special blade with ZJK Alc's handle. To be fair, some manufacturers do use special treatment/processing for special versions, as far as I'm aware, the veneers in W968 are naturally dried...

Cornilleau wasn't and isn't in a great spot and you can argue Hugo moved up the ladder by going to Xiom; whereas moving to Joola now however seems like a sidegrade at best, if they haven't given up on table tennis completely and only do pickleball

Think I misspoke on Timo's rubber, I apologize. Probably confused him with someone else. However you can see the special blade he got from BTY with his How I glue video, 14:27

The perfect example has been right there I couldn't even recall in my mind

ZQH switched to Double Fish already

https://www.instagram.com/p/DS5O2MxjrRA He posted this picture with something that looks like the Freeze

Their special order factory was open until 2016

Ok bro lol Saying it's a trust/faith/perspective thing and then debate me with your own opinion and try to convert me with it is crazy work

good eyes

I don't understand your notion on claiming it "ridiculous" to acknowledge pros use special gear. Just because it is not commercially available does not mean it doesn't exist. You are right, companies make the most money on the amateur market, and that is why pros get special equipment that is...

Harimoto's wedding gift to two CNT team members, you can clearly see the special "No." stamp

Special national team version of V15e, 55 deg

Seriously? lol Dang qiu's Cpen special spec, you can clearly see the normal serial number and the special "No." tag

Phrased it badly, let me rectify: All players who have their signature blades plays a special version. Some players who doesn't have a signature blade could be using either a special custom blade or a well-picked comm

Because literally every TT manufacturer has them. Ma Long uses the special HL5 (W968) from DHS, all butterfly players have special versions of their blade (2 codes version), Xiom players (Hugo, Jeoung Young-sik, An Jae-hyun before) has special versions with a picture of them on the bottom of the...

He was using warrior for a bit tho. Ultimately I guess it doesn't matter, he gets special versions anyway, not the same as commercial ver

Yup, at least I have actual hands on experience with the xylo and it was great