Someone on TTD posted Heming Hu's video on equipment recently
And more importantly:
I don't know which market versions he's referring to (just national or also provincial versions) but it's good to know that we as amateurs can get more or less the same quality rubbers from DHS that the top pro's are getting.
I raise an Australian source (Alex from OOAK) and now there is Heming (Australian no 1 at that time).
Team Australia was also sponsored by DHS for many years, (Gozo, if you think DHS only sponsors in CNT, they actually sponsored a lot of juniors in Australia too)
Pros just get custom spec versions from the H3
They don't remake a rubber totally different from H3
John S will need to give us the source to such muth, but until then, I call it utter nonsense.
I used one of the kids bat, which gas rubbers arranged directly with Ma Long, I can't say if it is his own batch or he just got it from DHS, but it is national edition H3 #22 41 and H3 37Deg Red.
The quality is way better than any nationals I used.
It is still H3, but just way better.
So many people around me have used CNT A team and B team equipment before and they all say the same thing.
The precision for DHS stars is the highest priority and they can customize from tackiness to sponge height, sponge hardness and with that to near 99.9% consistent and perfect QA is just way better than what we buy in "commercial" nationals.
I posted an "order sheet" before and I actually shared on this forum (I think) many years ago, on CNT DHS order sheet and it included the players name, specs and the quantities they ordered.
Now DHS just makes the same spec and quality and sell it under the "pro players edition" rubbers, of which is a true Pro player spec/QA rubber. There were some people calling those as fakes, but those are real in terms of quality product.
In terms of Butterfly
Yeah, the pros all get personalized rubbers and blades. If they don't have they own line(model) of blades, then they either use generic handles or use the closes handle - ie if it is a customized Visaria, they will use the Visaria handle.
The rubber quality is way better.
I tested world top 20 players bat before.
If my memory is correct Heming once also said he had Zhang Jike's BH Butterfly rubbers - which ZJK took off and gave to him and he used them and it was WOW. Heming was a Butterfly player before going to DHS (correction - it was FZD)
So many used a hard version of T05, that wasn't available to tier 2 pros.
and then they introduced T05 Hard. I know some players who used it for at least 1 to 2 years before T05 Hard was introduced