D_E, I couldn't stop laughing, especially when I know that you're in the military hahah..and about that scantily dressed girls on the covers, even I would buy those!! hahaha
Renz, be patient. Trust me buddy. The speed will come in time. and when it arrive, you will have the know how and technique to handle those missiles.
Haha Azlan, thanks for "liking" the post. I was semi-serious about what I said. Calibra on a fast/stiff blade is VERY ppowerful, along the lines of what our friend is looking for. I waz simply being slightly "Colorful" about what I said. I am with you 100% about learning spin at the moment. The timing can always get better and some more forward stroke and solid impact will get the power, but later when it comes together. Like you said, that takes time. My coach likes my rubbers (Aurus and calibra) but will NOT recommend them to anyone else in the club, period. Why? The rest of her students do not have the racket speed at impact to make any use of them. My sponges are pretty hard. I also use wrist at impact for the extra speed/spin. Her students are not "There" yet to use this and their current rubbers, mostly Yasaka Extend HS are best suited for what they do excedingly well, which is drive through the ball with solid contact. For 2+ years I had one of the most inexpensive rubbers on hte planet on my BH (Dawei XP 2008 Super Power 40 degree) and I could spin the logo paint off the ball on opening loops. It had great control. Just landing teh loop where you wanted it with heavy spin was and still is good enough to win points vs the div 3 and div 2 crowd. That heavy spin is simply not going to cut ti vs the top div 1 players who will punish you if you make shots that allow them any amount of time. You have to apply pressure to them right away or get blown off the table. MOST, like 99% of amature players in Korean clubs do not face these kind of opponents and do not not need super fast equipment or attack-everything mentality. The advice constantly given over time by you, Richard, Carl, And for Nrway and others I cant mention all are in the "right" approach, although of course one thing does not work for everyone, but certain principles should apply and you all seem to be very sound advice givers.
As for the "Babes" or the atttractive women on the packaging... This is about marketing and I like to crack jokes about it. Among MALES, we guys will buy ANYTHING that has a lot of attractive women on the packaging or advertising, even if it is a product we do not use much or even need. Kim Yeon Ah, the sexy looking Korean medal winning Figure Skater with a good figure herself, could go on TV, wear some revealing outfit and pimp a vacume cleaner, then shortly afterwards, half the entire nation of Korea will run out to thte department store and buy out that brand of vacume cleaners, even if at home they NEVER vacume the place, haha. Recently, GIRL GENERATION, a very popular supergroup of singers, pimped Woongjin water dispensor. (Just about every Korean home or business has a water dispensor that filters water and makes it cold or hot (for Coffee or tea). These girls are the current state of what Koreans consider young and sexy. The next month, Woongjin sales went up 4x. (our club has one of those Woongjin Conway water dispensors, but it had it years before this advert)
This is not a coincidence. This is how the male mind really works, whether we want to admit it or not. Heck, it works even on half the females as just about all the females want to look like they have the same image, whether they are already fashion model hot or ugly hags just hoping to become half-ugly.
I could take off my shirt and look like 1970s Chuck Norris with Wolf-Like hair and a cut, muscular figure absent of any fat, then make my sexy man self pics plastered all over the packaging. I could do this on a product that mist women actually use and NED to use, like say feminine hygine products like say, TAMPONS. The end result would be that company going bankrupt due to lack of sales? Why? Females simply do not operate that way. You have to use 15 year old teanie dancers or some other thin, attractive looking female to identify with them and the product and its benefits over other similar products.
I could change all of that failure of he-man marketing by adding a vibration alert to the product to let the user know it is full and ready for changing. The user would really like and appreciate that feature. That would be pretty sucessful in Asia, particualrly in Japan. That is how we know someone is calling us when our phone is in our pocket. it would be a riot if one of those things went off during a corporate board meeting, haha. Then, my packaging strategy would work, but only because I would have a patent on the hottest idea to hit that part of the industry. Plus, I would be rich on licensing fees to buy Tenergy rubberz all day and night. (I don't use Tenergy anymore though) The female picture marketing is for real and works, whether I make jokes about it or not.
