yinhe/galaxy T-7

The T-7 is a medium (think OFF - range pace top end) speed class blade with composite construction.

It is billed as a slower controllable looping blade, but in practice, this blade is for hitters or combination players, NOT those who want to topspin the ball.

Drives and powerloops and the sweet spot of this blade. Slow topsins... you better be 100% right on it or you will not make your topspin. The problem here is the ball leaves the bat too soon, there is no dwell on this blade. The feeling of a well struck ball for a hit or powerloop is great. Everything wlse... poor unacceptable control.

Another positive thing is in an emergency when you run out of ammo and you cannot draw your RAMBO knife to face and engage the enemy... you could always wield the T-7 like a Tomahawk and if you strike first, the fight is OVER.

When testing this blade first I looked at the price tag, then the composition and possible clones. This blade is composed of hinoki outer plies with kiri core and arylate carbon middle layers. Well except the composite it looks like a Butterfly Photino Light (it has ZLF). Characteristics are same, but slower, and less vibrating.

Handle is comfortable, blade is around 6,7 mm thick. During play I tested it with an older sheet a of TinArc 3 and a Sriver. For playing style my blade was an ALL+/OFF- blade, with kind of a soft touch like Michael Maze blade. When I needed tempo the blade had it, so smashes and power loops work well. The blade is good with rubbers from soft to hard sponges. Control is excellent in every kind of hit/block/loop. As for the price I can only say, this is a good blade with fine characteristics, but not close to be a substitute/clone of other blades.

The Yinhe T7 js an excellent blade which has very good dwell time and I find it just like the Butterfly Viscaria as it has abut little slower, Yhine T7 is very good blade. Good control, medium speed and lot of dwell time since is very soft blade.