Joola Karakasevic

[Airoc]

After contracts with many different manufacturers over the years the great man has finally signed with Joola a while ago. Now they produced a signature blade for him.

 

[NextLevel]

After contracts with many different manufacturers over the years the great man has finally signed with Joola a while ago. Now they produced a signature blade for him.View attachment 28607

Someone in the Joola Marketing department knows what will get some people to buy blades lol.

 

[Metaxa]

Punishment! Was a great player with an incredible BH and service and still hard to contend with now.

 

[SofaChamp]

His Gewo blade wasn't launched too long ago it seems and I remember reading that he used it for one or two matches and then went back to a TB ALC.

 

[Kolev]

I still have his Tibhar "Karas". A very decent 4 carbon layers wood. Definitely not a speed monster.
I wonder what the new will be like

 

[KM1976]

Is Karakasevic even playing now? I don't see any new videos of him playing anymore. Or may be I am not looking at the right channels on YouTube.

 

[NextLevel]

Is Karakasevic even playing now? I don't see any new videos of him playing anymore. Or may be I am not looking at the right channels on YouTube.

He is likely in some smaller league or lower division in a big league playing somewhere. These legends can always find somewhere to play just not at the same level as before. Think He Zhiwen, if he didn't play Lebrun, you would have had no idea he was in division 2 in France.

 

[Jimbob MacInbred]

That's from a few months ago (Oberliga in Germany, which is - I believe - the fifth highest league in Germany).

 

[Airoc]

His Gewo blade wasn't launched too long ago it seems and I remember reading that he used it for one or two matches and then went back to a TB ALC.

The only constant is change ;-)
TB ALC seems like a fallback option, but there were many others, among them Donic Original (then Ovtcharov...) No.1

 

[Airoc]

I wonder what the new will be like

Like with the Tibhar and also the GEWO and the Killerspin before it the emphasis is on feeling and spin over speed. Acceleration is in his hand ;-)
Softer touch than TB ALC, probably closer to Freitas due to the Limba outer veneers, but I have no reliable experience with the Freitas and after all veneer thickness etc. may be very different.
It feels light, for lack of a better word, which has nothing to do with weight but the feeling it provides, easy to play.
I haven´t played it side by side with another blade using similar rubbers, so anything I could say in terms of comparison would kinda be built on sand.