Reviews by Josep Antón Velázquez

I've been playing with this blade since 95 or 96 aproximately. Is the regular one, not WRB.

First of all I've to say my wood is from 90's, now I think this model isn't hand made, whatever the actual Stiga OC wood aren't as good as the old ones. If some one are interested I give you some good alternatives similar to the old one.

It's a OFF- blade, it's elastic, thin blade of 5 plys (koto-spruce-ayous-spruce-koto). The blade have a good control, ideal for the short game, and allow a good curve trajectories on topspin. It's a good off- wood for an allround-ofensive game, but not so ofensive since speed glue was banished.

From my experience with this blade and the new rubbers, the rubbers that best fit on it it's the medium or soft rubbers (I don't get good feeling with hard ones on it).

If you used to play with this or you are interested I think today are similar blades but maybe more adapted to the new kind of playing style.

The most similar blade I've found its Avalox P5, indeed I think it's a copy of the old one. The composition and proportions are the same, but it's maybe a little more hard than the old stigas.

Yasaka Ma Lin Extra is also in the same direction, not the same blade, more sweet spot and more consistency but similar feelings.

Waldner Dicon it's more rigid and fast but I think if you like this blade and want to try something similar but faster it's a good option.

There is also other blades like Nittaku ANV (discontinued) or some DHS (sorry I don't remember the name) that has the same or very similar composition but they are more thick.

I use this on my backhand.

It's one of the most fastest rubber I ever played with. The hardness is medium, it has very good feeling, and very good control on blocking between the new after glue-banish era rubbers. Not so much curve in the topspin trajectory, at the beginning it seems to don't have a great spin but when you get used to the rubber you can manage to do really spinny topspins.

But I'm not agree in one thing with other users seeing the numbers of T05 and T05 FX. For me FX it's faster than the regular version and T05 is more spinny than FX version. I don't understand why people think or feel this that way... maybe because FX it's softer, but for me there is a falacy that says that softer rubbers are more spinny. Softer versions of a rubber have usually a most curve trajectory but less spin IMHO.

As a nostalgic and after having problems to find some setup that allows me to play in forehand as before the banish of the glue I actually still use this rubber on my forehand. As it was a rubber from the glue era I use it with optimizer, the result is not the same, but it's pretty similar. The result is a high re-bounce rubber, pretty fast, with a good spin but not so grippy. So it's good for attack if you like to go for a "killer topspin", but the control in the reception of the serve or the short game can be hard to handle.

For me it was the best rubber during the apeed glue era, now I don't recommend it to the kids, I think there are better options, especially now with the plastic ball.

So for all of that it's difficult to give it numbers, as you get the rubber from the factory it's a good rubber for control, but not good for intermediate or high level players in my opinion, unless you give it some "help" with optimizer/boost.

I actually use these shoes as a part of the gift from Stiga on winning the trickshot showdown.

I can say these shoes are very good and I have been using them since when I received them. They are light and very comfortable, they have a very good grip and a thin base and feels soft during lateral movements.

I've been playing with these shoes for two months now so I cannot talk about the durability but it seems to be a very good build and a good material so I think the durability will be really good!