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According to Yasaka he does.

http://www.yasaka.se/news/

Mattias: track record 26-1
Mattias plays with Yasaka Rakza X on backhand, Rakza PO on forehand and Ma Lin Soft carbon.

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He plays pipped forehand? I thought he used it on his backhand? From the Dimas match the red rubber is the PO, no?

edit; Nevermind. I see it now. How did I miss that.

pls confirm his equipment with pics (i dont belive on yasaka site)
he is sponsored by stiga as well (t-shirt) so maybe he uses calibra?

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When I watch him play, perhaps it's just the specific matches I'm catching, but it seems like he's looping on the FH more than driving or hitting. If he's going to loop, I wonder why even use the SPs?

What's the tactical advantage here given that he loops?

Edit: yeah it was definitely the matches I caught. I see more hitting in other matches. Still, he does loop quite a bit....

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He is sponsored by Yasaka and uses yasaka equipaments.
Sweden is sponsored by stiga so he uses the swedish uniform from stiga...

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Curious as to what thickness of sponge he uses with the SPs...

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Anyone know the thickness of the SPs?

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prolly super max just look at his FH loops, I'd be shocked if he played anything other than the max thickness

Wow, he's just made the grand final of the ITTF World Championship!!! He'll be playing Ma Long

Here are the highlights of the semifinal:


For those of you that are interested, it seems he now uses the following:
Blade: Yasaka Ma Lin Soft Carbon
BH: (Inverted): Rakza X Max
FH: (Pimples, short): Rakza PO (probably Max)

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Famous Sweden diet, sweet beer, rotten herring.

Well, he is from the most south of Sweden and I can assure you they rarely ever eat ”surströmming” (rotten herring) which smells like the worst poop ever, horrible thing to eat that only people far to the north of Sweden eats and then together wit raw onion, flat bread and lots of vodka.
http://youtu.be/_haw_YDC_zo

So it must be something else making Mattias so good .

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Here is the video of the final... great effort really!!!

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Rakza PO Max

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