I Made a Box and an Edge Tape
The Mozaiti blades — shakehand FL is currently undersupplied, so two or three dozen players will only get theirs next week, when I will include this newly made edge tape. This is no ordinary edge tape, though it is still an edge tape. Thanks to these players for waiting; here I offer my apologies. The shakehand ST and penhold CS all shipped today.
Then back to today’s theme: I made a box and an edge tape. Does this article only talk about the box and edge tape? Not entirely.
First the box. It is a variant of the original box, already used on the latest Mozaiti blades. The text on the back is still from an article I wrote before.
Then this edge tape. It is not unique in the market. But it really is my favorite style. Because those carbon-fiber or metal edge tapes are on the heavy side, or change the feel. Before, I bought the same-material Yasaka edge tape on the market, but at thirty or forty yuan each, too expensive. Now I found this factory and made this anti-collision edge tape.
Mainly to sell it? No, no — mainly, if you buy a Heima-tuned blade, I can give it free. I just want to share that this edge tape is by far my favorite work in the Heima series: achieving a quality I am satisfied with at low cost. This is one of life’s small joys.
Then let me chat about recent life. It actually relates somewhat to gear too.
More is less.
Recently there are actually quite a lot of things to review. Among slightly-tacky tensors alone there are the K3 VIP and the Joola Hugo Trinity Charged, and I also have the national-team-special D09c and K3 Pro to compare. Then yesterday, dining with Mr. Wang of Liulan, he strongly recommended the Trinity Dynamic backhand as really easy to play. Well, I have that rubber too — the problem is no time to play it.
This is not bragging about how much you own. Rather, after playing too many things now, you seem to become less sensitive. That is, without playing it three or four times, you can hardly perceive performance comprehensively. And I am not willing to phone in a review superficially.
Maybe the more products you play, the more you want to stop and properly savor one product. More is less. This too is human nature.
Another sense of more is less: I do too many things, and as a result seem unable to do any well enough. Including reviews and writing articles. Because I still have to work every day, and sell. And I am someone who really needs time alone to think and create. Now I clearly do not have enough energy. Maybe for this reason, many reviews have slowed down. I am a bit behind the pace of other influencer creators.
Once hair goes white, it is hard to go black again. After only two or three years apart, some friends have full heads of white hair. That was a big impression at the Sports Expo. Though they are a bit older than me, there is no need to be in such a hurry.
Everyone faces different predicaments and bears different pressures. Once a business grows big, what you shoulder is no longer one person’s livelihood, but that of the whole company’s many people. Sometimes it is like a road of no return. The more money earned, the faster the business grows, the more these friends must shoulder. An occasional rough patch, and the hair goes white; once white, apart from dyeing, it is hard to go black again.
Bystanders may more easily notice your state. For example, at this alumni cup, my rhythm was very slow. But I did not notice it myself. A teammate saw it. I reflected that it may be this year’s prolonged lack of sleep, leaving my energy and vitality not what they were.
For instance, those days I was busy until 2 a.m. before going home, then still went to work in the morning. A colleague said: looking at your back, you seem very tired. But in my heart, I always feel my spirit is okay, still enough.
Maybe only when you lie down do you realize you are more tired than you thought.
Treat yourself well. More is less; doing less may be a blessing. Young people are happier probably just because they carry less in their hearts. Boredom may actually be happiness itself. At least that is what I thought watching the sea in Xiamen.