The pro's equipment -discussion and questions!

Jeoung Youngsik is using a special blade (butterfly). It is a blade a bit faster than korbel.

PowerChop23 wrote: So any equipment news from Rio? I saw a lot of player changed their blade before rio! For Example Shibajev: (not sure) before = 7ply wood with Korbel handles - at rio = back to Korbel off jap. ...but at the end a few players changed insted of the plastic to a slower blade at rio???!!!

kindof99 wrote: What blade is Jeoung Youngsik currently using? I think he used to play with a Korbel. But not sure about his current blade.

Hey Guys,
did someone notice Tiago Apolonia's blade at the Olympics as a Clipper wood?

In the 2016 butterfly catalog, bastian steger says he uses innerforce layer alc

liulin04 wrote: Does anyone know what's Mizutani's current setup?

Edited by rickywinataa - 08/23/2016 at 8:52pm

Thanks!

Finally someone who cares about handle dimensions. The handle is more important than you think. Pro players care about it- why should we not take advantage of it ?

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For example, Butterfly has modified the ST handle of old Viscaria.  I know what they have modified. After the modifcation around the year 2000, then came out Boll Spirit ST on the market. It's exact the same blade with a thickness of 5.8 mm like Viscaria. There stands in the catalogue ST and FL handle have been optimized- yes but they won't tells the details of optimization. For me, I know what they have done. Here is one secret from me and if Butterfly don't tell the truth I will: Here is one detail but there are more, not many but has big effect on your technique. They changed the handle wideness from originally 30,50 mm down to 27, 80 mm. There is one more detail and it depends on handle thickness..... It was not easy to find out and took many years... After I found out I was a little bit shocked and sad at the same time. If you take a look at Bojan Tokic's handles then you will see that he is using something similar and the same with Paul Drinkhall. And if you see that you get very sad and angry and you feel kind of cheated.

dude got the eye of the tiger ^

It looks like a Butterly Arylate Carbon blade like Viscaria or ALC or Spirit, all the same.
But what is new to me is that he uses different handles on Viscaria blade. The handles are more round than squarish. If you ta a more acurate look at the handles, then you see that he has put under every handle shell halves a around 1 or 2 mm veneer between.
And that's what i have supposed all the time. Most standard handles are to thin and small because of the thickness. Some player uses theirfore grip tape- but that makes the handles also wider.The problem is the players just want to make the thickness more and not wider. Ovtcharoved solved the problem with adding a mm thin extra veneer under the handles and it is more comfortable than grip tape-it becomes so sticky. And onother thing is Ovtcharov uses a round handle radius just like Waldner, on the contrary to Timo Boll- he is using very angular shaped handles- there are 2 different ways to become a perfect blade if the handle dimensions are right and that we won't get for sure from standard sold blades. If the dimensions are right the you get a perfect angular shaped blade or a perfect round shaped blade. Then would be easy problem for me if I could choose between those 2 perfect blades - thats what I call matter of tast- and this we get almost too rar.
I have the perfect dimensions for very angular shaped blade like Timo Boll is using. I've made a blade becauseof it in my own. I have average sized hands like most of us and also Timo Boll. Butterfly don't sells it to us no matter how much you spend or no matter if you make an special order for thousands.

Who is Michel Detrigne?

Baal wrote: Who is Michel Detrigne?

Thats the guy who lacquer the pro's blades e.g. for Timo, Dima...

Baal wrote: From the picture that TurboZ posted I think ttspirit may be right.  If you look at the layers not near the handle but near the rubber, it looks like the composite layer is close to the surface*.  IN the vicinity of the handle it looks like the composite layer is deeper but that is mainly because on the handle there is an extra wood layer between the handle and the blade, as if to make the handle just a little bit thicker. * But that part is not in great focus so harder to see and I could be wrong. By the way, the handle on Dima's actual blade looks even more oval shaped than the relatively round ST handle that comes on the True Carbon.  I think I would like it a lot.  I actually own two of the True Carbons.  I like one quite a bit more than the other because its handle is noticeably bigger and it is heavier (and faster).