TSP Products in the US / Canada

haggisv wrote: Sorry dragon kid, I wasn't having a go at you! You may well be right, who knows what goes on behind the scenes!

Hahaha.. everything is cool haggisv..

I saw the names of the blades BESTY and BARRICIO in their catalog. I don't think TableTennisStore.us will keep an inventory of that. But the REFLEX 50 AWARDS blades are coming - offensive and defensive.

Yay spin pips!!!

It would be good if they had a in English, coz the catalogue is the only guide for me, and even that's in Japanese!

I'm hoping they're bringing out some new pips soon, to replace the ones that are no longer legal (eg curl bamboo).

dragon kid wrote: Glenn wrote: dragon kid wrote: Like i previously mentioned, TSP has not release a new rubber/blade since Xiom new line hit the market in the last two years.. TSP has introduced TSP T-REX is one such new product. There are many more Do you know the latest 5 inventions from XuShaoFa My mistake, that's one rubber, Iruiru don't carry them.. you must carry them though Iruiru is one of my barometer for popular blades and rubbers. If they don't carry them i guess is not well selling products.. And who cares about XuShaoFa? The topic doesn't say XSF products in America.. Glenn wrote: Secondly, i would like to stress that TSP and Xiom are SEPARATE companies. They are NOT sister companies. Yes they are separate companies.. dugghh.. what i meant by sister companies is they have some form of co-operation agreement.. varghesep wrote: TSP has some new bades - BESTY, BARRICIO. Don't know about the rubbers. that's news to me. I haven't see them or even heard of them if you don't brought it up.. can you give me a website address of this products? cause i can't seem to find them anywhere.

Well, im not a retailer, and i don't carry any products. So my comments are fair (or at least i would like to think that it is fair). My mate is the official distributor of TSP products in my country though, so i have tried a bit of their products.

Sadly, you are right : TSP products don't sell well. I don't really know why but products like the X's F1 is 5bucks cheaper than the Sriver and i really believe it is as good as the Sriver!

Might be marketing problems though (:

X's F1 is a good rubber especially for BH.
I think their best products are the LP lines and the Triple lines.

I was just searching for TSP Carbon Blade that nicefrog is looking for. I saw that TSP has TSP Hino Carbon Power and TSP Hino Carbon Speed. Xiom has Xiom Power and Xiom Speed in their catalog last year.. i think one of them is missing from this year's catalog though. Coincidence?

I find many of the Japanese manufacturers seem to focus on their local market, and seem to put little effort into promoting outside Japan. I assume they must be doing OK and get enough business already... Butterfly is the huge exception of course

varghesep wrote: I'm also wondering is ITTF putting some restrictions on the manufactures - like pay more to sell their products in other countries.

Can you elaborate... I have not heard this?

I had a triple spin and liked it very much, was a very nice rubber, killer at my backhand

There are a good number of people (8 I can think of off the top of my head) in our TT club (hawaii) that use TSP products....namely TSP triple speed.  Since there is basically no way to get it from US sources we always wait till either someone visits Japan or someone from Japan visits us.  I recently tried the Triple speed on a friends blade and liked it so much that I am awaiting my own sheet to try on my blade (I have used nothing but hard sponged chinese rubbers in the past).  The price used to be around $ 20 a sheet but that might have gone up since the dollar went down.  I know another rather large order is being put in really soon for other club members.....one member will be buying several sheets each of spin speed and power so he can try each one.