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People believe what they want to believe even when looking at the actual facts clearly paints a different picture.

Let's compare Team Tibhar vs Team Butterfly, so we can see just how "done" Butterfly is: Tibhar Butterfly Felix Lebrun Fan Zhendong Alexis Lebrun Tomokazu Harimoto Darko Jorgic Lin Shidong Oh Junsung Lin Yun-Ju Alvaro Robles Dima Ovtcharov Milosz Redzimski Timo Boll...

JOOLA "stole" Pitch from Victas not Butterfly. And I doubt either of them are weeping about not sponsoring a player on the cusp of retirement who is mostly irrelevant on the world scene nowadays. ZJK retired years ago, is hardly involved domestically, and has a load of controversy. Butterfly...

His name is now also missing from the VICTAS Advisory Staff webpage, if that's any indication. Would not be surprised if XIOM signed a Korean player.

VICTAS cleaning house...

Very much this - it is easy to take the more lucrative deal especially earlier or late in your career...but often these players start feeling they are playing at a disadvantage by not using DHS/Butterfly, whether or not they do something about it is up to them...time will tell...

I think I have heard that for the past 10 years.

I think they probably handed him something random for the photoshoot and he likely hasn't had any time to seriously test the stuff yet. I'll stake an early guess on the Freeze HRD.

Interesting. Pitchford was also using Mizutani ZLC for a while so we will see.

Nope, Zexion is similar to ZLC

I think you mean Joola Liam Pitchford ZLC PBO-C

So he was a member of two strong provincial teams and got called up as an official sparring partner of the CNT and was part of the pre-Paris practice squad to Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Chuqin and others, and beat them with 2-4 point handicaps. What is it very telling of?

It just doesn't make sense in any way to discontinue the blade that is actively used by your popular top ranked sponsored player.

Hope to see more big things coming :cool:

Just noticed the Hugo HAL is discontinued....it is literally the blade that Hugo is currently using...how does this make any sense?

Right, the homepage of their website makes it very clear what their priority is...had to scroll all the way to the bottom to see any mention of the Pitchford signing or table tennis at all...

What is the vision of where JOOLA is heading?

Many pros use only 2 layers of Haifu or even less. If you find it that hard to believe that it is an equipment difference and not a technique difference between yourself and a top pro though I don't know what anyone else can tell you.

Yes, those strokes that look small to you are far more impactful than you think on the ball due to concentrating the timing of the power (even if a small motion) at the exact correct timing, and being able to "hit through" the racket, this type of contact is what separates amateurs from pros. If...

What methods were the opposite of Dima and Boll?