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What is Zaman Molla playing?

You seem to beinterested in what sort of blade Waldner uses.  I have been on the same pursuit myself.  I found on this website a thread that probably details the most information about his actual blade than anywhere else.  It is in a thread titled, "a long path to perfection....", by forum member - Andredd.  Perhaps you should read that and contact him about his findings.  Evidently he came across a blade that ACTUALLY HAD BELONGED TO JO WALDNER, and he recounts that it was different from the ones sold on sites. 

Here's an excerpt from that thread --

     "In 2002 there was an Open tournament (may be Finland Open) and there was Waldner playing in that tournament. After the loss to Kreanga, he abandoned the tournament, went to the hotel and to the end of the day were pretty drunk. When he woke up next morning he found out that his bag with all his table tennis stuff were gone. And that the story for waldner ends. But not for Russian table tennis players)) It appeared, that Waldner forgot his bag somewhere and the group of Armenian players took it. And there were Armenian player which played in Russia, and he brought all that waldner stuff here in Moscow. There were his shorts and t-shirt, shoes, and 2 Waldner Senso Carbon. So one of that blade was given by that Armenian player somebody as a present, the other one was sold to one reach man for  1000USD and it appears that that man took table tennis lessons with my friend. He saw that blade and decided to buy the same and make a changes in the grip.

From my friends words, that Waldner blade was pretty faster then regular one and had different shape and had a longer grip.

I've  decided to take all necessary measures to get that original Waldner blade and so my quest for that blade began."

-king_pong

what?

its obvious that you are the same person.....

Ovtcharov , Samsonov , Ma Long , Wang Liqin

Whats their blades and rubbers ?

For those who are interested in current Kreanga's equipment:

Edited by Stavros - 03/29/2011 at 1:59pm

Does anyone know what rubber Chan Kazuhiro uses on his FH? He used to play in China so I am suspecting it might be a Chinese rubber although he snaps his elbow too much for me to be completely sure. He's a very consistent player nonetheless. 

 MA LONG also a EJ  ,ejing with stiga and TBS

AMonteiro wrote: Cls2222,   There's a lot of discussion with pictures at german forum tt-news.de, people who used to watch him play in Bundesliga, etc..   Even his Waldner Senso Carbon is not the same Donic sells. His blade is thicker compared to standard WSC.

Ya, I wouldn't imagine how he would be able to play with a WSC unless it would be thicker. It is more of a OFF- blade and he is an all-out, near the table, power player

http://tt-japan.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_6&products_id=682

Edited by AMonteiro - 03/25/2011 at 5:14pm

AMonteiro wrote: He used Coppa during speed glue times.   After speed glue ban he played with Coppa Speed both sides, then Tenergy 05 FH/ Coppa Speed BH and now he uses T05 both sides.

Thanks for the info. Btw, how did you find out?

Must have been an old picture then...

Malong1, there are many photos of him, even in this thread, using Tenergy on his FH instead of a Donic rubber.

I couldn't tell from those photos...

I thought Dimitri is sponsored by Donic... so why do you think he would be using Tenergy? 

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