Fan ZhenDong Personal Hurricane 3

40.5 .
Thought dhs hardness only comes in whole numbers till today.

Those are the exact same pictures that prott.cc has and they're selling it for $230. They are the same store that sells Professional Version Tenergy for $122. How are these not fakes?

lol but your sig says you're using the 2.1 version, but at a different hardness.

www.prott.cc has so much fake stuff up on website, it's hard to trust that he's telling the truth. According to the website, you can get Ma Long's personal blade...

I have just checked out the special blades and rubbers on prott.cc and the prices. whether real or fake, are several hundred degrees Fahrenheit beyond insane.  $250 (a sheet??!!) for the same Hurricane that Zhang Jike uses and $500 for a Wang Hao penhold blade!!!??? 

Come on.  For that kind of money, only Donald Trump, who doesn't play pong but delights in pissing everybody off, can afford this kind of bling.

And could I afford a $1000 blade and rubber combination I'd damn well expect to play like Zhang or Wang or I'd fire off an extremely nasty note to prott.cc demanding double my money back.

Kolev wrote: Ridiculous. There is something sick in the head of the owner of prott.cc

MLfan wrote: I know that you guys are surprised by the prices, but there are actually a lot of Chinese people who buy them in China. There are definitely real rubbers and real blades around, and the prices are as high as those mentioned, ie. $500 for Wang Hao's blade. That's because if that really is one of the blades made personally for Wang Hao, it is worth that price lol. Also, these prices are not considered expensive in China for those who can afford them......which is a lot of people lol

Dear MLfan,

I am gratified to read that "a lot of" table tennis players in China are now sufficiently affluent so as to be able to afford a $500 blade made personally for Wang Hao, though I remain puzzled as to why they would choose to do so.

From 2000 to 2005 I played with a custom made Chinese penhold blade which my friend and former business partner for Hock Table Tennis Don Varian made for me as a gift.  Its price would have been about $59.99.  The Leyland hard rubber I used came affixed to the blade, but it could be had at that time for $5.00 per sheet.

Wang Hao remains one of my favorite modern players, though initially I copied the reverse penhold backhand from Ma Lin, so I guess that makes me a Ma Lin fan as well (or are you a Ma Long fan?).  I remain, so far as I know, the only person to have won major championships (under-1500 level hardbat) 2 U.S. Opens, one National Championship, one North American Championship incorporating the rpb with a hard rubber racket.

I hope, however, that Fernando Chang, who plays extremely well both offensively and defensively with a hard rubber racket using rpb, will become the second player to win a major championship using the rpb offensively and defensively as I did.  And I hope that he will come to this year's National Championships to try his hand at whatever hard rubber event he might think would be suitable for him.


Edited by berndt_mann - 12/11/2015 at 10:54pm

Well I mean as far as the stamps go it looks legit. 

But when strong or bold players encounter one another, does the one who uses the $500 blade and $250 dollar rubber his favorite player uses win?  For a thousand dollar investment, one would surely hope so.

Sure, $1000 is toy money to a lot of people in the major Chinese cities. But what assurance do you have that the blade is genuine when the place sells so many fake items?