My Viscaria is 87.5 grams. Carl, what would the speed be for a TB ZLF from far away from the table? If a Viscaria is 90/100, what would you rate the ZLF? Also, why don't most pros use ZLF blades?
I have kinda told you before that this is not how blades work and that this path is going to hurt your table tennis in the long term.
Most pro males started out with 5 ply blades or a blade used by a pro they admired and just train with it. If they determine that on their fast shots, they need something faster, or on their touch shots, they need something slower they get it something else, but usually after a prolonged period of training - it is usually in response to a change to balls etc. But because they are pros, they get a lot of blades to test and pick the ones they like. A few of them, Applonia comes to mind, used ZLF blades in the cell ball era, but with the plastic ball being slower, he went to something a little faster. I am sure if you looked at all the good players out there, you would find a few who still used a ZLF. You can find that quite a few did at the Euros.
https://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/...rs-equipment-from-European-Championships-2016
This is probably the 4th time you have come around asking about blades and I will tell you the same thing - there is no way to buy a blade you like over the internet without taking a risk and as much as I love Carl, he cannot help you because even if you like a blade, there is no guarantee that you won't get one that is not like others because wood is a living thing. What you need to do at your age, especially if you are a national team player, is to find a sponsor and get them to send you blades to test. I am 95% sure that if you tested 4 Viscarias or 4 Timo Boll ALCs or 4 Timo Boll ZLCs or any Zhang Jike blade, you would find one that you liked. But the point is that you need to be somewhere where you can test if you are at a level where this stuff matters to you. All the blades you don't like are used by at least one good player somewhere, so the problem is not the blade, the problem is that you don't like it. There are pros still playing with the 5 ply Primorac OFF- blade. Crazy but true. Jeoung Youngsik is using a Korbel as is Shibaev. Emmanuel Lebesson is using a classic 5 ply blade and he is the European champion.
Asking about blades over the internet will not solve your problem. You will only be lucky to get a blade you like based on such inquiry. As much as I hate the Viscaria, if forced to play with it for a month, I would adapt. IF you are a good player, over time, you will adapt too. I remember a player (who sadly died recently) telling me that when they first gave him an AL blade (Keyshot) in the 90s, he wasn't sure he liked it. He used it for a month and wasn't sure. Then he beat a top 5 player in the USA and then he knew he liked it. Blades are like that. All it takes is for you to figure out how to do something you could not do before.
And if you liked the Viscaria, but though it was too fast, then you should have figured out how to make the right contact with it so that the ball will stay on the table. It really is practice - once you like the blade, just keep playing with it until it works. Or test 5 of the the same blade and find the one you like. The 5 won't all play the same.
Samsonov used the same wooden blade until they stopped him from using it because the blade had started bending and was no longer flat. Think about it - he was making shots with a curved blade. Just because he was so used to it that it didn't matter. And yet you are still trying to make it seem like the issue here is the blade?
Here is the Butterfly specs chart. If this can't answer your questions, no one here can:
http://butterflyonline.com/Templates/BladeSpecifications.pdf
