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Panda Drive / 4H Xiom Sigma Pro 2 2.0 / BH Xiom Omega IV Elite Max / Play right-handed
XVT balsa carbon 10mm / 4H Xiom Sigma Pro 2 2.0 / BH Globe 979 Long Pips OX / Play Left-handed shakehand
Stiga Def Wood / 4H Xiom Sigma Pro 2 2.0 / BH GD CC LP OX .. Play Left-handed
Cpen SOS Wood / 4H 729 802-40 2.0 / BH GD Talon use righthanded shakehand grip
HARDBAT / Shakehand Hock 3 ply / Friendship Dr Evil OX .. Play Right-handed

That it really more effective?

In my opinion, the National Team edition plays clearly better. I've been using it for a week now and love it.

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Dr. Neubauer Firewall Plus with DHS G888 1.8 mm and Giant Dragon Dragon Talon OX National Team

what's the different between the TALON the TALON-NT in appearance?

the pimples:top is TALON and bottom is TALON-NT

I got a total of 7 sheets of National Team Talon now and the good thing is that they are consistent which is unusual for chinese long pips. Also, the last shipment of regular Talon was consistent but unfortunately consistent in a way that the properties are consistently different from the way I like them to be.. National Team Talon consistently has LOW trajectory and great braking effect when blocking, and works great to accelerate the ball on pushes off underspin.. It's a little difficult to handle against no spin though.. On previous shipments of regular Talon, 2 - 4 sheets out of 20 would play similar to National Team Talon and 16 - 18 sheets would play different, with higher trajectory and less braking effect.. Since the introduction of National Team Talon, both rubbers now seem to be consistent..

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Dr. Neubauer Firewall Plus with DHS G888 1.8 mm and Giant Dragon Dragon Talon OX National Team

cant wait mine to arrive, next week...will post my findings...

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Great info .. the average buyer .. hasn't any knowledge like that ..

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Panda Drive / 4H Xiom Sigma Pro 2 2.0 / BH Xiom Omega IV Elite Max / Play right-handed
XVT balsa carbon 10mm / 4H Xiom Sigma Pro 2 2.0 / BH Globe 979 Long Pips OX / Play Left-handed shakehand
Stiga Def Wood / 4H Xiom Sigma Pro 2 2.0 / BH GD CC LP OX .. Play Left-handed
Cpen SOS Wood / 4H 729 802-40 2.0 / BH GD Talon use righthanded shakehand grip
HARDBAT / Shakehand Hock 3 ply / Friendship Dr Evil OX .. Play Right-handed

WHICH National Team?? Know any Chinese National Team player using this?

Giant Dragon may be made in China, but you can't get it through the usual Chinese channels. Seems to be big in Thailand, though.

Iskandar

The only retailers that have it are in Thailand, Malaysia and Germany..

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Dr. Neubauer Firewall Plus with DHS G888 1.8 mm and Giant Dragon Dragon Talon OX National Team

I wonder if it chops better than the normal talon. That was something I didn't like about normal talon...even compared to Dtecs...ox chopping was blah.

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"National Team" does not mean it is used by Chinese (or any other nation's team members). My understanding that it is part marketing and part better Quality Control in terms of consistency. Pushblocker has 9 sheets and I have 3 that seem to have fewer variations. I have three additional sheets ordered and will note how they play when they come in.

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Blade: TSP 8.5 Balsa: FH Andro Blowfish+ 2.0 (Black);BH Giant Dragon National Team Talon OX(Red)
Blade: TSP 8.5 Balsa: FH TSP Spectol Blue 2.0-2.1 (Black); BH Strahlkraft OX (Red)
Blade: TSP 8.5 Balsa: FH Joola Express Ultra Max (Black): BH Dornenglanz II OX (Red)

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That's what's so funny. The term "National Team" obviously originated with sheets specifically made for specific players on the Chinese National Team - most of these being DHS H3 these days - that somehow managed to make their way out into the general public. These sheets gained a great deal of mystique, selling for huge amounts of money and generating a huge amount of mythology along the way. They also spawned a lot of fakes and imitators - and imitators is what these "non-National Team 'National Team'" rubbers are - they're jumping on a perceived bandwagon. You see them all over the place - Globe 999 (this one actually has a claim to being "genuine", since there WERE Chinese National Team players using it at one time), Yinhe Sun and Moon, Haifu Whale and Shark.. Even 729-8..

So one can't help but wonder if maybe someone on the Thai National Team or the Uzbekistan National Team uses this...

Iskandar

Giant Dragon proved utterly sociable guys , wiling to enter business cooperation with Russian people.

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Yes, National DT version differs somewhat from the ordinar version. You can't see any difference unless you read the given annotation to the product, that the National version now employs new "high tension" rubber formula.
No other modifications to the product were made.