For me personaly, it helps when I'm at mid distance BH, my shots ended often in the net, now this small extra kick drives it just over 😂
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I think Lim Jonghoon switched to it from an Innerforce ALC. Not like it means too much, he's been playing pretty stellar with the previous racket too.
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That is a screenshot from RevSpin. My count, from that screenshot is that there have been at least 18 Butterfly Timo Boll blades.
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That is a screenshot from RevSpin. My count, from that screenshot is that there have been at least 18 Butterfly Timo Boll blades.
So I wonder why they choose to make so many blades named for TB, but LYJ and LGY only get 1.
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Timo's name sells well on every continent, adults like him, children wanna be like him...
He has been a BTY contract player for 20+ years, they had time to make a few models.
LGY, LYJ are much younger and way less popular.
He has been a BTY contract player for 20+ years, they had time to make a few models.
LGY, LYJ are much younger and way less popular.
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Yep. I am not sure why or how Butterfly calculated that Timo was great for marketing. But I think that is what their experience has been over the past 20+ years. They did not start Timo out with as many blades as they are starting FZD out with. But as the blades sold, they added more and more and more.
They are sad they don't have Ma Long.....And we will see how FZD's blades sell. If they do well, you can be sure Butterfly will add versions like Wood 7, Wood 5, All, All+, Off-......
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I think many ppl underestimate the difference another handle makes. Yeah it doesnt change the composition at all, but it changes the weight distribution and handfeel. That could be enough for ppl having different experiences with pretty much the same blades.
And the difference between a TB ALC and Viscaria handle is pretty huge.
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The slight differences in handle shape/size, and blade face may cause people to like one version more than another, but I suspect people who expound on the differences between blades like TB ALC and Viscaria are basing their experience on testing ONE of EACH BLADE.
If you had a sample of 20-30 of each blade, the blades closest to the same weight, whether TB ALC or Viscaria, would feel more alike and the blades at different weights, regardless of which one, would feel more different: ie: 4 TB ALCs and 4 Viscarias all at 92.5 grams, would feel very similar. And 4 Viscarias of 92.5 grams would feel very different than 4 other Viscarias of 84.5 grams.
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Aww, come on I only saw his early matches from recordings but he seemed like a very respectful and level headed athlete even in his late teens. Also it was obvious he is very talented and not least he was a handsome chap too.
I do not understand your point of view. Apart from the fact that most of the players who have a blade signed with their name do not play exactly with the blade that is sold in stores, in my opinion what Butterfly has done with a series of Fan Zhendong, Timo Boll, Zhang Jike and Tomokazu Harimoto blades is actually very cool, because it is often the case that the player likes to play with some specific blade but it is a bit too fast or too stiff for him and then he can buy exactly the same model, but instead of, for example, alc fiber he can buy a model with zlc or zlf fiber. In my opinion, it is a very good solution for customers and this trend should continue as I wrote earlier, it is a pity that they did not make a version with zlf fiber, because in my opinion it is a very interesting fiber especially for people who do not like blades with carbon.
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Thank god 🙏. I should make a thread about that...
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Yeah. There is a point to this. Handle and the contours of the blade face change how the blade feels in your hand. And I think there are a lot of people who are not paying attention to much more than that when they try a new blade.
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So I was right!I mentioned it in another thread as well, but I believe the FZD handle is a copy of the Stiga Infinity handle.
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Which would actually be a good thing
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But playing an H3 on a Viscaria and a Boll ALC should still be the same right? Unlike what the Chinese forum people are fighting over.
God, they start insulting me personally when I say I use H3 on Boll ALC.
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Insulting you for this? That is seriously dumb. There are Chinese pros that use TB ALC and not Viscaria. I think I even saw TB ALC in penhold being used before.
If I had to spend money I would probably get the Lin Gaoyuan ALC now, since that is the prettiest from them all, but all of these basically Viscaria variants are very similar. I would be shocked if the bottom plate itself was not produced on the very same line for all and in the end they just get a different printing + handle. That being said BTY can still sort them, since they might have weight, balance, stiffness, hardness targets for each version.
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If my eyes dont fool me, that should have been Dang Qiu.
@PingBirdPong: Yeah ignore them. The composition is the same as many chinese use their H3 with Vis, so if you feel comfortable the TB ALC stick with it. I actually played with it too some time ago. But my hand is not really made for ST handles
But the feedback and overall feel of the blade was kinda beautiful to experience.
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If my eyes dont fool me, that should have been Dang Qiu.
@PingBirdPong: Yeah ignore them. The composition is the same as many chinese use their H3 with Vis, so if you feel comfortable the TB ALC stick with it. I actually played with it too some time ago. But my hand is not really made for ST handles
But the feedback and overall feel of the blade was kinda beautiful to experience.
Got it. But what exactly is the difference between FL and ST? Would ST suite bigger hands?
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I think he uses Innerforce ALC. Or he used to, but in pen it looks even more like a TB ALC. 😬
I saw it during superleague matches and I have no idea of the player's name unfortunately. Wang Chun Ting also uses a pen ZJK ALC so I don't get why anyone would fuss over this too much.
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