Oh no! Zhang Jike in trouble?

[Egon]

I can’t say anything about this situation, because I don’t know anything about it, but the media very much resembles the special propaganda technology called “rotten herring”. The point is simple. A person is publicly accused of some very dirty deed and after that everyone starts discussing this event, as if rubbing the smell of rotten herring into this person, and even if the person is not guilty and the court finds him not guilty, the smell of rotten herring will accompany him everywhere.

 

[Egon]

Zhang Jike is a very talented player who has given table tennis a huge boost. With his light hand, a discount is now applied with a backhand over the table - a banana, a return serve, the use of a Viscaria blade and further modification of this blade, an equivalent game of both sides of the racket with a еuropean grip. In fact, today's champion and world number one Fan Zendong cloned Zhang Jike's style of play, the younger generation of Chinese players are also striving for this style of play. This is something worth talking about and remembering all the time. And this dark story with injuries and debts is, in my opinion, a dirty policy.

 

[h3llary]

Fun fact (or assumption) I learned from a russian coach who made a video about JZK’s career. During his career he lost so many matches that he was supposed to win including those against Ma Long, Fang Bo in semifinals etc. His arguements were that JZK’s uniqueness was in letting emotions take over him and help him boost his confidence during the game when the battle was almost lost (he won multiple important matches when losing to a stronger opponent 0:2). But during those matches when he was making a lot of unforced errors he was emotionless, as if he didn’t want to play at all. So the coach’s assumption was that the communist party wanted the ”right” athlete to win all the time which is Ma Long. They didn’t want a champion who had tattoos, dyed hair and couldn’t control his emotions, bad image/example etc etc.
I don’t know if this observation is true but it seems legit especially in that video he made where you can clearly see him not play his full power

 

[Fnub]

Recently I watched the video you are talking about. This opinion looks pretty logical. This coach makes really interesting videos I think. But unfortunately for people who don't know russian there are no English subtitles, only auto-translate

 

[Zwill]

All his fangirls can't pony up the money to make him even? Sounds weird.

 

[h3llary]

Recently I watched the video you are talking about. This opinion looks pretty logical. This coach makes really interesting videos I think. But unfortunately for people who don't know russian there are no English subtitles, only auto-translate

I agree, the content he makes is super helpful, interesting and engaging. Maybe we should ask him for adding Eng subtitles as well

 

[dingyibvs]

Fun fact (or assumption) I learned from a russian coach who made a video about JZK’s career. During his career he lost so many matches that he was supposed to win including those against Ma Long, Fang Bo in semifinals etc. His arguements were that JZK’s uniqueness was in letting emotions take over him and help him boost his confidence during the game when the battle was almost lost (he won multiple important matches when losing to a stronger opponent 0:2). But during those matches when he was making a lot of unforced errors he was emotionless, as if he didn’t want to play at all. So the coach’s assumption was that the communist party wanted the ”right” athlete to win all the time which is Ma Long. They didn’t want a champion who had tattoos, dyed hair and couldn’t control his emotions, bad image/example etc etc.
I don’t know if this observation is true but it seems legit especially in that video he made where you can clearly see him not play his full power

With what's recently come to light, it could also be that he has money on the games. Or maybe he's just immature. Or maybe Ma Long is actually a pretty good TT player

 

[longle]

Butterfly removed ZJK from their website

 

[TensorBackhand]

Butterfly removed ZJK from their website

wahhhh. so sad.

I actually feel ZJK gave butterfly brand a big boost

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

He's totally disappeared from Butterfly website
cannot see his picture, nor his blade

ラケット｜製品情報｜バタフライ卓球用品

ラケットの製品カテゴリ一覧。バタフライは卓球選手を始め卓球を愛する皆様の為に、ラバーやラケットなど卓球用具の開発・製造・販売といった事業活動を行う卓球用品総合メーカー。

www.butterfly.co.jp

 

[JustANoob]

its still there in the international site

Zhang Jike ALC

The ZHANG JIKE ALC blade features a soft touch, bigger sweet spot and a powerful performance, whenever versatility is called for. The Arylate-Carbon fiber reduces vibration and lends the blade its characteristic control in every situation. The ZHANG JIKE

en.butterfly.tt

was gonna make a joke how they're gonna bring back the lin gao alc to fill in the quota of viscaria clones.

Edit: 10 hours later - it gone !

 

[TTHopeful]

Butterfly removed ZJK from their website

And heree https://www.butterfly-global.com/en/news/info/20230405.html

 

[TensorBackhand]

Gotta say that Butterfly is very careful about keeping up their brand image. They go out of their way to make sure their brand is not associated with gambling/extortion, and they make sure LYR is listed as Chinese Taipei to avoid controversy, etc.

 

[Zwill]

Since Butterfly ditched ZJK I think Gambler has a pretty decent opportunity to pick up ZJK to represent their company. It just makes sense.

 

[longle]

Since Butterfly ditched ZJK I think Gambler has a pretty decent opportunity to pick up ZJK to represent their company. It just makes sense.

and then here comes the new custom blade: Gambler JQK Full House Carbon

 

[ricospin]

With what's recently come to light, it could also be that he has money on the games. Or maybe he's just immature. Or maybe Ma Long is actually a pretty good TT player

I think you'll never really know. But the saying around ZJK is that the candle that burns the brightest doesn't last the longest. While certainly his expressive has gotten him in trouble we can't say for sure.

The one thing that we are sure about is that his injuries played a part to why he left the sport.