When you post this you should might as well also add that this vid was taken loooooooooooooooooong time before the ABS balls were introduced. There was no A40+ and no D40+ or any of their copies.
To that time the ONLY company that had some sort of ABS ball was Nittaku which makes your whole hateful comment appear in a new light!
So by now everyone probably knows what a hateful troll you are! Thanks for letting us know!
Eff off, dude!
Then your 'not-so-good' players must have a better hand feeling than some TTBL clubs and their players who chose to use the G40+.
Certainly there are also Marketing purposes behind this, but if the ball was as shitty as you experts keep claiming then no TTBL club would use it. Wanna bet?
Don't get me wrong. I'm definitely not a fan of this ball. Not anymore.
But maybe let's just stick to the truth for a minute pls.
As i said, nothing against your memory, but maybe keep the first part of this post of me in mind.
When this vid was made THERE WAS NO ABS! so your Interpretation is pretty much for the birds.
Always handy with stupid accusations. No matter how farfetched they are, right?
Sorry for losing it, but sometimes.....
It is what it is, Suga. When I mention that some "not-so-good"-players can tell that the G40 is garbage, I'm actually quoting
them, since that was the very comment I got from my clubmate back then...
About three years ago when I returned to tt, the G40 was just released and the Nittaku Premium -which is made of (some sort of) ABS, as you have pointed out- was already on the market. These were the balls that I knew (apart from the 1 star Donic practice balls, which I barely used, but our club used tu buy in buckets...) and kept in my bag. I expected quite a bit from the G40, but my impressions were very similar to the impressions which hipnotic also made: rather light, gets smooth fast/ doesn't spin that good and breaks fairly easily (compared to the NP). It's just what is is (or was).
Anyway, so one day my clubmate asked me for a ball cause he was too lazy to walk the 20 - 30m to the storage room where we keep the buckets of balls. I gave him a G40 and a NP. I didn' t really care which one they would use for the practice match. After about ten or twenty seconds he angrily threw the G40 back to me with the words "That one is garbage!" and they went on to play with the Nittaku...similar thing happened a few days or weeks later with two other guys. I for myself wouldn't put too much thought on that. I just have to smile a little bit when I think back of that little episode. By the way: I really wouldn't describe these guys as players with a good "hand-feeling".
However I do not doubt that there were TTBL clubs that used the G40. The reasons for that? I don't really know. Maybe marketing as you mentioned, i.e. the club/s might have been contractually obligated to play with the G40. Be that as it may, I admit that I do not have any insight in how things work on the national or international level.
As for Timo: I might be exaggerating a tiny tiny tiny bit, but I've been a social worker for almost ten years now and I would like to believe that I can tell (most of the time) if someone is just nervous
or if he (or she) does not tell the truth. Obviously Timo is nervous in the clip, but in my opinion he is nervous because he simply
knows that he is not telling the (full) truth here, although I wouldn't say that he is per se "lying". I for myself would always consider that he is under contract from Butterfly. It must have been an awkward situation for Timo for he was way more nervous than usaually during interviews or similar situations...
