Recent content by damszelfly

It seems like you are not in the target group anyway. You don't need to believe it. You can still buy Stiga stuff for 10 times the money I guess, but for most people (not just casual amateurs) these will play very closely to that for this fraction-like money.

There are a few good possibilities to get Loki products at AliExpress for a surprisingly good price/performance ratio. I had a few blades with rosewood top ply already, and I can confirm also by the play feel, that this is genuine rosewood, very similar to what is used for 729/Friendship Rose...

May I cite here a classic? "Ashes to ashes, rubber to rubber... taken too soon" Right the first chapter in this TTD made video (0:15 to 1:38)

On the other hand, there is Fextra 5 and V5 Pro - those are usually pretty lightweight ones (78-83 g with FL handle), but because of Koto and Ash outer layers, there is a good hitting feeling. I already made a racket based on V5 Pro for a female player. She liked it very much.

Sanwei already implemented a gargantuan chopping blade (Sanwei Defence Alpha 40+), approx. 166x157 mm, weight 118~120 g. It is quite demanding to wield it physically even with thin/no sponge long pips, but you will become (like literally) the great wall of China with it 😁 (I played it against a...

I guess, nothing bad happens if there is an additional thin layer of Rev. nr. 3 sealer applied - even if there was some kind of factory sealing already, but the look of the blade surface does not fully confirm that.

I ordered a few of K10 several weeks before, and I think, K10 has a great price/performance ratio (even better, when snatched for a low $10-ish price tag with good discounts). The Rosewood top plies have a high quality look and feel (nicely sanded/polished, thicknesses are even with low...

I can recommend Yinhe Uranus U3 as a classical example (thickness: 6.8mm - rather stiff, but not too fast), a bit slower can be Yinhe Uranus U2 Spin (thickness: 6.0mm). From DHS, I can recommend Power G7H (Hinoki top ply variant of the famous budget blade Power G7 with 6.3mm thickness) or Power...

I would add Sunflex Zen OFF 5 to the list (it is Off- despite the naming). It has a little bit atypical composition: Thin (but not paper thin) Mansonia wood top plies (harder than Koto, but a little bit less elastic - gives good feeling) Thick Koto medial plies (this is the main selling point)...

Still, I think, that whenever an umpire does this, I cannot imagine, how the athlete would be compensated for ruining his/her competition-ready racket - I don't think, that a newly glued "identical" configuration would work, because there would be no separate times (like several hours) to do the...

I've experienced something strange. On the final day of Black Friday sales, I hit the red button on Yinhe Pro 13S, and now, when I want to go back to the product page, it blinks for a moment, then it says, that the product is currently unavailable in my location, with a 404 pictogram. Can you...

I have purchased various DHS rubbers in several rounds from AliExpress sellers, and while I might get lucky sometimes, and the sheet weights correlate with the stated hardness, it is rather more frequent, that I don't really get, what I expect. For example, I bought 2 pairs of H8-80 38 degree...

I am counting on black sheets for the future, as I tend to use many rubbers with the same thickness and hardness on both sides - but not always. I don't really like BH only rubbers, but I tend to use a few FH only rubbers when I am using pips on BH, so I make a better use of them.

Why there is no black sheets available on AliExpress of Telson 100 rubber? At least, I saw that option at a few sellers, but then greyed out very soon.

About LAC, I gave up on it, when I was only able to get it with vastly different sponge thickness and overall sheet weight - which cannot be justified for a $25-ish rubber. I get either 63-64g uncut sheets with clearly thinner than 2.1mm sponge, or I get a 2.2mm thick land rover tire with a 75g...