China new badminton brand Li-Ning

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  1. jamiec269

    jamiec269 Regular Member

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    I know the china team are now using Li Ning, and so are the other country, is all the badminton team leaving Yonex?
    Im from UK so cant get a chance to try out the Lin Ning products, but does Lining start selling their products around china and asia now?
     
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    I get the information from other forums that LiNing rackets has been launched. But the price for that 4 series-"wind", "fire", "Mountain", "forest" are quite high, almost HK$2000. It is a new brand only, it is worth to take the risk. I may stick with Yonex unless LiNing will reduce the price to a reasonable level.
     
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    HK$2000 range??? That's like US$250-300. Even beat top line Yonex. :eek:
     
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    My guess is that they want to position themselves as "high-end" so pricing below Yonex would be counter productive from a marketing standpoint... Not they are saying "prcing" wise.. hey we are better than Yonex, we should not cost less :)

    /Twobeer
     
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    twobeer is right, but i will stay wiith Yonex, unless all top players change to Li ning then I probs get one and have a try on their products.
    I saw a picture Lindan performing, and his was sweating really bad like shower, do he normally sweat a lot or is just the shirt which make it worst??
     
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    their shirt seems to stick to their skin as sweat is soaked into the shirt...yonex shirts however, do not do that..unless heavily drenched >_>...
     
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    indeed, I have never swaet that bad before in my life using yonex, i will not get the Li Ning shirt ever
     
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    I was offered their rackets when I travelled to SIngapore. Never tried them but they were being offered cheaper than the Yonex I was looking at
     
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    ya i agree with yours opinion, Yonex products are so long history and I seeing the product line improvement. I recently also get a top line product from Yonex, before I bought this, in the shop also selling Li Ning racket, it's all feel heavy when I try to swing it, somemore the material used I don understand it, difficult to decide which one is good.
     
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    I thought they are just off-loading the price to sponsor Team China onto the consumers.
     

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