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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

Xylo 7 has 5 ayous as core, proline aw7 is 3 ayous + 2 kiri, I don't like the change

Extremely lovely blade, loop monster but also has power if you want fast attack

Xylo 7 and the freeze is really good, have them both myself, not sure about the trinity, pretty bad rep in China close to where I live

Already exists but they discontinued it, xylo 7 is awesome

Doesn't matter if they are premium if they can all their good products. Freeze nowhere to be seen on the 2025 catalogue, so is the xylo 7. Not to mention the old rubbers that have good reputation and popularity.

Restart production of rhyzen, everyone in China likes it. Don't know why Joola is willing to kinda relaunch the golden tango in the Japanese market but not rhyzen

Sponge thickness, sponge density, pips length, pips density, pips shape all play a different role. Just because some brands get lazy and don't do much R&D and straight up copy other company's homework doesn't mean all ESN rubbers are the same

"Basically the same" is a wild claim

Chen Yi spotted on the lower right hand corner in the new DHS advertising poster

If you don't have much money you can get some cheap but very good stuff on aliexpress

Yes obviously, anything would be better than a premade

The reason why I suggested the xylo 7 is because it plays more similar to the long 5 being a softer blade with limba ayous veneers, from the description on Donic's site the Persson Powerplay doesn't really sound like it plays similar, so when you move back to the long5 you might feel a bit of...