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Also funny how this highlight cultural differences. I'm not expert on Maiko/Geisha but from the little I know I can imagine that broadcasting such clip or advert in my country (or elsewhere in Europe or US) would get big portion of "oh nice chicks" male reactions as well as many "stupid sexists"...

I'd just like to say that many "pro" defensive blades like Butterfly JSH or Victas/TSP Koji Matsushita are definitely faster then usual 5-ply ALL blades meant for learning classic offensive close to the table game. Simply because they must have power to return balls from long distance. So I...

Again I'm with Lula. Yasaka Sweden Extra is good ALL+/OFF- blade, I personally prefer softer outer ply so I would go with something in ALL/ALL+/OFF- range with Limba outer. However on your level it most probably doesn't matter. Look into your favorite UK shops (if you are from UK) and get one of...

I do agree with Lula. You can find countless threads on this topic (newcomer asking for first custom bat set-up) on this and other TT forums and you will get the same answers again and again. Each brand has some suitable 5-ply allwood ALL/ALL+ blade and intro rubbers which may be recommended...

But that is easy: you can tell in few minutes how much FullHD takes on your expensive phone without SD slot and then you can see from your available space if your training fits or if you need to delete some pictures of your last 365 lunch plates you needed to share on the instagram... indeed...

I'm using for my personal use just phone (some cheap Xiaomi in <200$ range), cheap tripod (I got it many years ago, it's something in ~50$ range) and holder from Aliexpress for 5$ (I personally love this one...

Well it's more like text book business case: company dominating the market with basically one product for 10 years (assuming rubbers are the main thing which makes living of TT companies), how can they maintain the revenue/margin or better how to increase it (because that's what every CEO is...

If you have flagship product released 10 years ago and still being king of the hill (at least from marketing and price/volume perspective) you have two choices: keep the cash cow running "forever" which means one day someone comes and will kick you down or release something newer even more...

Basically all Chinese brands have stockpile of inner layer carbon and composite blades, classic brands like Joola or Andro have also several. Butterfly introduced ALC as material (and before they were first with pure carbon I believe) and they first introduced inner layer ALC but since then many...

Hi again. Please don't take this as trolling, I hope others will reply as well. But I need to say this looks like typical mistake and lack of understanding how TT works: yes, you can get something which will play faster and you will think it will do the job for you. But that is dead end. You...

OMG. No one is saying anything about Blaszczyk's rubbers or Dyjas's blade. But Mizutani clearly uses Butterfly blade in all matches (see pictures from all T league or World Tour matches in last 6 months), the instagram video with edge bouncing is some random event probably even not using that...

I give up, you really like this guessing game. I'm really sorry we hijacked this thread and fans of Xiom and Hugo are reading this right now... can we like delete last 10-15 posts?;)

Btw. tracing the photo back on the internet there is long discussion on MyTT forum where people suggest it's either Yasaka Gatien Carbon (which would frame the story nicely, it has exactly the same carbon "structure" and handle!) or some Butterfly IF version. And yet again, I don't want to...

I appreciate your enthusiasm in building theories but you are still just guessing (even it is educated guess) from few photos from the internet. Colors may be shifted on that one and it can easily be blue Butterfly ALC or even ZLF/ZLC which aren't blue. If I should bet on Swedish player using...

That really is some innerlayer ALC clone but how do you know it's exactly HL5? And on JYS: yes, he used HL5 for many years (probably some of pro versions which are normally supplied mainly to CNT but that isn't so important here) and Ice Cream was released just this month. You cannot blame him...

My answer is: the only way to find if softer outer (e.g. Limba or Hinoki) or harder outer (e.g. Koto) suites you is to buy some blade and play with it at least 20h. This can be typically done in between seasons (if you have 2x2h trainings per week then one month is already good time to find...

Except rubbers?;)

There is no classic big logo such as soccer jerseys in Europe leagues but you can see that it was contracted to adidas and they switched recently to Reebok. And companies pay huge money for that even if there is just little sticker on the jersey itself... what I mean is that either club or...

I see Ice cream blades being marketed clearly with JYS's name so it makes sense that Hugo will get another product named by him (even if it will be very close to one of AZX blades) When it comes to equipment and sponsoring: when some brand sponsors a team it's for brand presence on the apparel...

Well I've seen Tenergy and Evolution rubbers which are 6-12 months "on stock" and they were notably poorer then "fresh" items. Unless you take care about the packaging and prevent oxidation (most of the rubbers have perforated packaging and if they have protective film then only on the top...