Newbie Advice for 11 year old developing player

truescot · Jan 28, 2018

My 11 year old son has been playing for two years with a Dunlop bat (sorry - I know!!) Now regularly playing local and national age group tournaments so needs a new better bat. Been using his coach's bat for the last 3 weeks (Yinhe T -10 blade with Tibhar MX S and EL P rubbers) but its falling apart and he needs his own. Coach said to go for an all round blade and pick a rubber in our price range which isnt too fast. He is adamant he wants a Butterfly bat (and he is using xmas money so its his choice!) so not sure whether to just get a premade again for now (Timo Ball?) or Teessport (I live in UK) have a bat they will assemble which is a generic allround Butterfly blade with Flextra rubbers. Thoughts??

Any advice greatly received - its a minefieldl!

TableTennisTom · Jan 28, 2018

Hello

If your son is adamant on getting a Butterfly bat, you could go for one of these from TeesSport:

http://www.teessport.com/table-tennis-bats-c3/butterfly-allround-flextra-table-tennis-bat-p9361
http://www.teessport.com/table-tennis-bats-c3/butterfly-allround-sriver-l-table-tennis-bat-p9362
http://www.teessport.com/table-tennis-bats-c3/butterfly-offensive-roundell-table-tennis-bat-p9364

The flextra bat will be slower and he may outgrow quite quickly, as juniors tend to improve very quickly.

The sriver bat is probably a decent choice to start with. Not too fast, not too slow.

If he wants a bit more speed, then go for the roundell bat.

Others on this forum will be able to give recommendations for other brands, which will be equally good but probably much cheaper.

vvk1 · Jan 28, 2018

+1 for the allround bat with Sriver.

truescot · Jan 28, 2018

I was tending towards the Flextra both on the cost side and to allow him to develop technique before going onto something faster. Would there be much between the Flextra and Sriver?

yogi_bear · Jan 29, 2018

Extra is just like a rubber in butterfly hobby bats but thicker. Go with a better rubber like sriver 1.9mm which has a better bounce and grip on the ball.

thomas.pong · Jan 29, 2018

If Butterfly, I would definitely go Sriver 1.9mm for the rubbers to start.

Also, I highly recommend you don't go with a pre-made bat and get a custom setup instead. The quality of the blade will be much higher and it will last him for years, and he can glue yet faster rubbers on it when the time comes. Also, the rubbers of a pre-made bat can be old stock and not play as well as packaged rubbers.

This is a very good ALL+ / OFF- Butterfly bat for developing players all the way to high level:

http://www.teessport.com/blades-c5/butterfly-primorac-off-2017-table-tennis-blade-p9530

UpSideDownCarl · Jan 29, 2018

Yep. I would get that Primorac Off- blade. I would also think about Sriver FX or EL. For that age, softer rubbers can help the player learn certain aspects of technique for spinning the ball.

truescot · Jan 30, 2018

Thanks guys. Managed to chat to his coach at practice last night so gone for a custom set up with Allround blade, Sriver FX on the BH and Roundell on the FH. Appreciate the advice on here

thomas.pong · Jan 30, 2018

truescot said:
Thanks guys. Managed to chat to his coach at practice last night so gone for a custom set up with Allround blade, Sriver FX on the BH and Roundell on the FH. Appreciate the advice on here

Just curious, which allround blade did you purchase?

truescot · Jan 30, 2018

Butterfly Timo Boll

alejgonzalez · Jan 30, 2018

I have a Timo Boll CF 2000 lol

thomas.pong · Jan 30, 2018

truescot said:
Butterfly Timo Boll

Good choice!

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