I don't know. Zhang Jike did say his rubber is harder than what is commercially available, but he never said his 39 degree is harder than our 41 degree.
Yeah, but he also never stated the opposite or that they are equally hard, whereas Heming clearly stated that their 39 degree pro H3s are a lot tougher than commercial 39 degree H3s and he has no reason to lie so I believe him
The blades are specially manufactured though in some cases. I know of pros who can and do get specific thicknesses and handle shapes to their preference which aren't the same as the market version, and allegedly there are certain batches of wood that they suspect are going to be more to the pros liking.
I mean, Heming Hu's sponsored H3s are harder than on the market, so there's a reason to believe CNT players' H3s are too
I dont think we are seriously disagreeing. Customization of a design of a blade for a specific player (and even rubber) can be and usually is a long back and forth process. Usually the biggest things are to get a certain speed of blade and a specific handle design with a specific vibration/feeling. This is especially true when a blade is not already in the market. So when you hear a player is using a custom blade, something like this is what usually happens. Most of the time, the manufacturers like Butterfly already have decent quality supply chains for all their materials so you don't really get that much difference in quality of wood. It is more about getting to a design that that satisfies the player. Also, the player has preferences which can change over time so it is quite possible that after using equipment for a while (and most pros have multiple blades), they decide they need something slightly different. Eventually they settle on something. The main point here is that you can build a great blade and pro might not like it. Or might want subtle changes to it. Handle design and head size are usually the biggest things and then ply choices sometimes to get to a certain speed/vibration. But the idea that the blades has some magical properties because of the wood chosen, good luck with that. That can feel good to a player or not so good to another player.
I watched the ZJK video about blades and believe some of what he says, but when he pretended not to have ever heard of fishscale on blades I couldn't take him seriously. He's not allowed to say a lot of things most likely.
why you think that? before i entered the forum i never hear about fishscale, too! don't get me wrong, i knew how it looks since i play koto blades most of my life but always thought that would be a defect or bad quality. so basically i also chose blades that are 'clean' and without fishscale when i went into a shop to buy a new blade and can imagine the same from zjk.
He was obviously being comedic, but his point was that it doesn't do anything for him. Even the whole thing was more like a skit.
I guess. Hes a weird guy. Maybe I just don't trust him cuz of everything he did. Idk
Obviously he has character issues. But he knows his table tennis. And even as an EJ, I tend to find a lot of stuff about blades outside of rebound and vibration/sound to be extremely silly. But whatever makes money tends to find fools who believe it.
Assumingly with "softer" he means just not as hard as its almost 55-60° wich it actually is supposed to have (42° Dhs scale if I remember correctly).Would be interesting if Dan could describe how "soft" he feels this rubber to be. When he says it feels softer than he thought.
Is it like a Tenergy 05 softness or is it dignics09c "soft"?
Also comparing how the backhand rubber feels, if it's the same grippiness or so
Also does the ma long blade have the same composition as the Harimoto Innerforce? With Limba on the outside?
