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I paired this blade with the Yinhe Venus-2 red max on the forehand and the Yinhe Sun max tense (black) on the backhand side. This wood is head heavy, which i prefer. The outer plies are Limba which give it a 'woody feeling' when playing the strokes. Overall i am going to break this down in small segments:
1) Counters - Counters are like a breeze with this rubber. Minimal action gives the ball decent speed on either side. I notice that even the slight mis-hits come on the table so this blade clearly has decent dwell time.
2) loops - Thats where this blade excels. The loops are generated with good spin and control. You can pretty much put the ball anywhere on the table with your opening loops without a great effort. The 5th ball attack is also fairly effective with the slightly tacky venus-2 rubber making each drive more spinny.
3) touch play - Due to the good dwell time the short game is very easy too. You can pretty much put the 'short-chops' anywhere on the table with good control.
4) Counter loops - Even though this blade is ideal for close to the table play, even away from the table it gives the player options. It has many gears which enable easy counter looping. All you have to do is to brush the ball decently and the blade does the rest.
One side note that i would like to add is that i am not a composite blade player. So this was more of an experiment, and it worked out very well for me. Obviously this blade does not give me as much dwell time as a 5-ply all wood or a 7-ply all wood. However as compared with some of the other composite blades out there this one has excellent dwell time. So as such it was not a difficult task to switch to this blade from a regular 5-ply all wood. I have seen reviews in which this blade is rated as an Off+. I disagree, to me this is more of an Off blade. However, i would not recommend this blade to a beginner level player. You need proper technique in order to utilise the maximum potential for this blade.
All in all an excellent buy for the money, i got this blade fitted with both rubbers for a total of 43 dollars from aliexpress.
1) Counters - Counters are like a breeze with this rubber. Minimal action gives the ball decent speed on either side. I notice that even the slight mis-hits come on the table so this blade clearly has decent dwell time.
2) loops - Thats where this blade excels. The loops are generated with good spin and control. You can pretty much put the ball anywhere on the table with your opening loops without a great effort. The 5th ball attack is also fairly effective with the slightly tacky venus-2 rubber making each drive more spinny.
3) touch play - Due to the good dwell time the short game is very easy too. You can pretty much put the 'short-chops' anywhere on the table with good control.
4) Counter loops - Even though this blade is ideal for close to the table play, even away from the table it gives the player options. It has many gears which enable easy counter looping. All you have to do is to brush the ball decently and the blade does the rest.
One side note that i would like to add is that i am not a composite blade player. So this was more of an experiment, and it worked out very well for me. Obviously this blade does not give me as much dwell time as a 5-ply all wood or a 7-ply all wood. However as compared with some of the other composite blades out there this one has excellent dwell time. So as such it was not a difficult task to switch to this blade from a regular 5-ply all wood. I have seen reviews in which this blade is rated as an Off+. I disagree, to me this is more of an Off blade. However, i would not recommend this blade to a beginner level player. You need proper technique in order to utilise the maximum potential for this blade.
All in all an excellent buy for the money, i got this blade fitted with both rubbers for a total of 43 dollars from aliexpress.
