Anyone has the Victas V>614 shoes?

[ajtatosmano2]

As the title, does anyone have experience with the Victas V>614 shoes? I am mainly interested in their durability.
I could get them really cheap, but had bad experiences with similarly priced joola shoes, as they died after a few months of training.

 

[Zwill]

It looks like the Mizuno Wave Medal sole without the Wave tech inside. I wonder how this works. Does Mizuno make it for Victas, or some Chinese manufacturer just straight up copies Mizuno and Butterfly soles, or Mizuno open-sourced it etc. Btw this is not only Victas; Joola, Tibhar has many models with these Mizuno soles.

 

[ajtatosmano2]

It looks like the Mizuno Wave Medal sole without the Wave tech inside. I wonder how this works. Does Mizuno make it for Victas, or some Chinese manufacturer just straight up copies Mizuno and Butterfly soles, or Mizuno open-sourced it etc. Btw this is not only Victas; Joola, Tibhar has many models with these Mizuno soles.

Now I checked and indeed, it looks like the Wave Medal 6 soles. It's out of stock in most places, I can imagine they sold the rights after phasing out the Medal 6. It's approximately half the price as the Wave series.

 

[Zwill]

I used to have a Wave medal 6 and while that was very durable and comfy and stable it was so bad on wood floors. It was slippery on hardwood. But that was the good old orange/yellow gumsole, this is some blue compound.
Ofc this also depends on where you use the shoe, if on various type of floors and hardwood is among them, then be cautious.

But that being said recently these colored soles (chinese) are quite good on wood floor too, I have Kawasaki badminton shoes and a Sanwei/Speed Art TT shoe and those have the best grip ever on wood floors.

 

[mikeytt]

not entirely related but perhaps it may help on the brand quality, i had the old VP leap shoes for a while, they are super comfy but i didnt find them lasting very long

 

[ajtatosmano2]

not entirely related but perhaps it may help on the brand quality, i had the old VP leap shoes for a while, they are super comfy but i didnt find them lasting very long

Thx! Probably equivalent to the Joola ones I used to have.

 

[ajtatosmano2]

I used to have a Wave medal 6 and while that was very durable and comfy and stable it was so bad on wood floors. It was slippery on hardwood. But that was the good old orange/yellow gumsole, this is some blue compound.
Ofc this also depends on where you use the shoe, if on various type of floors and hardwood is among them, then be cautious.

But that being said recently these colored soles (chinese) are quite good on wood floor too, I have Kawasaki badminton shoes and a Sanwei/Speed Art TT shoe and those have the best grip ever on wood floors.

That's actually very useful info! Our home court is very good, TT friendly sports floor, but in the league 1/2 of the flooring is slippery, which is terrible for me pivoting all the time. I will look into the shoes you recommended!

 

[Rastaman]

It looks like the Mizuno Wave Medal sole without the Wave tech inside. I wonder how this works. Does Mizuno make it for Victas, or some Chinese manufacturer just straight up copies Mizuno and Butterfly soles, or Mizuno open-sourced it etc. Btw this is not only Victas; Joola, Tibhar has many models with these Mizuno soles.

What Tibhar models ?