Calderano Signs with Joola (#139)

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Rubber must be in LARC. You can't take xiom rubber and print on it Joola
To spell it out for the special you:
ESN: Here's the reference design of the latest and greatest for all of you to express your creativity! Let me know when you're done!
Xiom: Let me add an Xiom logo, make the sponge black and call it a day!
Joola: Let me add a Joola logo and call it Hugo Calderano Trinity Series because why not?

View attachment 39652What does this look like :unsure:
 
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This can't possibly be that hard to understand. At a certain point, it's just a refusal to understand.
Create the conditions as Xi said...

I keep trying as the OP of this thread (despite being told not my own post) but it takes two to [Joola] Tango...
 
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To spell it out for the special you:
ESN: Here's the reference design of the latest and greatest for all of you to express your creativity! Let me know when you're done!
Xiom: Let me add an Xiom logo, make the sponge black and call it a day!
Joola: Let me add a Joola logo and call it Hugo Calderano Trinity Series because why not?
That’s not exactly how it works, if it was then Hugo would not need adjustment time.
 
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In case the following is not enough, I have more right from ESN...

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...efeated-adidas-table-tennis.36803/post-513007
It seems that Adidas Table Tennis rubber products are luckier. The rubber products of Adidas Table Tennis are commissioned by the German ESN company to produce. After years of publicity by many brands such as German Donic, Euler, Andu and Korean Jiaomeng, ESN has become a golden signboard for the performance of table tennis rubbers. According to an interview with Ping Pang, Adidas Table Tennis, with its brand advantage, has been treated as a Class A customer of ESN, although it started cooperating with ESN much later than the previous brands. This also ensures that Adidas Table Tennis rubber products have certain competitive strength in terms of performance. Unfortunately, Adidas Table Tennis did not mention ESN in the promotion of its rubber products. "The German headquarters does not allow it!" A staff member of the marketing department of Adidas Table Tennis once replied to the Ping Pang reporter. In the eyes of Adidas, unless it is a new technology developed by its own company, nothing else can be promoted, let alone "promotion" for OEM companies. Therefore, when all brands are trying their best to promote their own product "selling points", Adidas Table Tennis rubber products are pushed to the market with a "cold" attitude. In the absence of official promotion, even some contracted dealers did not know that this batch of rubbers with good performance were produced by ESN.
 
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Looks the same with the one in this pic
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nice, it makes sense, he wears exclusively shirts with his country colors, he needed a blade to match
 
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That’s not exactly how it works, if it was then Hugo would not need adjustment time.
No doubt it's an over-simplification on my part. Feel free to "knock some sense into me." ;) ("Investigate the nature of things, pursue knowledge, ...")
 
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It's ok, adjustment period, it's not easy for a player of that level to change equipment, and he has been exploring other blade options (as people saw in Hong Kong end of last year). but the majority of table tennis fans will look at it at face value of course. Will see how things go at the Star Contender.
so he hasnt settled yet on a blade composition?
the new blade in green and yellow looks awesome! any eta on when you will release it?
 
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This can't possibly be that hard to understand. At a certain point, it's just a refusal to understand.
It takes some work to do this, it is not about the understanding but about how it is described (again going back to the discussion on customization, the description gives the process magic properties or simple properties). ESN also isn't the only source of rubber tech innovation for the brands. There is some proprietary knowledge reserved to each of the brands working with it. While a generation of rubbers may be fairly similar, there are still important nuanced differences for top of the line rubbers.

I do wonder how much time Hugo had to switch - growing pains are not comfortable.
 
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so he hasnt settled yet on a blade composition?
the new blade in green and yellow looks awesome! any eta on when you will release it?
There should be some news on that front soon :)
 
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To spell it out for the special you:
ESN: Here's the reference design of the latest and greatest for all of you to express your creativity! Let me know when you're done!
Xiom: Let me add an Xiom logo, make the sponge black and call it a day!
Joola: Let me add a Joola logo and call it Hugo Calderano Trinity Series because why not?

Not everybody soo smart and informed like you
 
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yup, he already lost to ovtcharov with the new one , he hasn't been playing well lately

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Yep.. I hope next time he will check what we think in the forum here before signing a new contract and will set his priorities straight 🧐. I mean, come on! Dima's twice his age.. :ROFLMAO:
 
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my only complain is that the blade's colors are too faded. that green/yellow should pop
funny thing about using dye on wood...lol unless you would prefer it to be spray painted :p
 
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