The pro's equipment -discussion and questions!

Just because it was blue doesn't mean he was using hurricane (although very highly likely) it could have been Bluefire. :) 

Wong Chun Ting must be a fan of Xu Xin. He just changed his blade to Intensity from Rosewood in the Spanish Open. Barely survive the semi with the new setup. He lost a few straight points in the first game and more mistakes than normal. I think he play better with Rosewood just like Xu Xin. It takes a few months for Xu Xin to get used to it.

Mickael wrote: Whey dimia is twiddling when he is smashing against mizutani? Why the red is faster?

TSuBaSa wrote: Dima is using bluefire on bachkand now.

which bluefire?

Dima is twiddling bcz he feel's much more comfortable smashing with T64 instead of T05. 

Baum and Skachkov for sure are using BF on their BH on serious events. Dima was using it only at invitational events like Energis Masters, etc..

well if his backhand is bluefire m1, the reason for the twiddling is clear: m1 is faster than t05 at full power. Probably because it is harder.

But the question is how can they use such a hard rubber as m1 on bh... it does not seem very fit. banana flip becomes too difficult. Jp01 would make sense, but it didn't exist at the time Baum was using bluefire. And m2 would make sense on bh, but it is not faster than t05 I think.


Edited by seguso - 04/08/2014 at 4:40pm

Many swear Dima use BF but so far no pic to back that claim up. And all pics show either the butterly logo or red sponge so it really should be a closed case.

Edited by wiktor145 - 04/09/2014 at 2:52pm

name of apolonia blade?
is it tenergy 05 the black?
his bh looks like evolution?


Edited by puppy412 - 04/09/2014 at 3:01pm

arxidiavol wrote: Just Korbel , it's clear.

you mean butterfly petr korbel?
doesn't look like it, sorry.


Edited by puppy412 - 04/09/2014 at 3:54pm

beeray1 wrote: puppy412 wrote: arxidiavol wrote: Just Korbel , it's clear. you mean butterfly petr korbel? doesn't look like it, sorry. If you don't think that looks like a Korbel, I'd guess you've never seen one

I thought to myself "this must be a korbel".
then apolonia said to me "look well, look at the lens area, the orange part is big and occupies half of the lens. a korbel doesn't look like this. now leave me alone."
I wanted to ask what blade it was but he left in a hurry because the opponent made a block to his deep fh.


Edited by puppy412 - 04/09/2014 at 4:34pm

Am I the only one who thinks that the sponges of the black rubbers of both Mizutani as well as Apolonia look yellow instead of orange?
Of course it could be the lighting, but then in all videos of the German Open it seems that the sponge of Mizutani's FH rubber is yellow under all circumstances.
If true, it could be an all new version of Tenergy...
Probably I'm wrong...

wiktor145 wrote: Jun Mizutani Tiago Apolonia

ok after deep forensic analysis of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px2J9GO4a6w

and smoking of what I am smoking
I declare that
-the blade might be korbel. the horizontal lines are there but the lens don't match the lens of korbel.
-the bh rubber is most likely tibhar evolution.

the evidence presented so far is not enough to close this case, so as far as I'm concerned, he could be using a banda waldner with mark v both sides.


Edited by puppy412 - 04/09/2014 at 6:08pm

i´ll just say... forget about the lens