Looking for the best fit in stiga 5 ply wood blade

Wister said:

Thanks Jimbob for the description, it helps me to understand the idea

I agree about only changing the rubber or the blade. But i'm pretty sure about the rubbers i want to use but not about the blade.. And i hope to find one that go well with rakza 7 soft and non soft

What do think is best with rakza 7 soft and non soft ? Here is the proposed blade so far
- Infinity
- Offensive NCT
- Intensity NCT
- Rosewood V NCT : Seems a bit fast (113 on stiga), and i don't see a non NCT on their website

Also proposed blade but i'm less considering them in my selection
- Evolution : Not enough difference in speed with allaround classic (i think)
- Offensive classic : Also lack of speed
- Optimum sync : Don't really like the design
- Azelea offensive : No review on revspin
- OSP Virtuso + or - : Expensive and difficult to judge if it'll be a good fit
- Nittaku accoustic : Also expensive
- Innerforce AL

Between infinity, offensive NCT, intensity NCT, rosewood V NCT, what is the best suited for rakza 7 soft and NS ?

And again my style is a lot of BH flip, power loop on BH and FH but I also like to sometimes have point by varying spin on my push, loop and some rare chop. It's not easy to judge myself but i relate a lot to Simon Gauzy on the playing style (i may lack experience to judge appropriately here ! )

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MydasDiablo said:

I have a pristine Acoustic for sale, best feeling 5 ply I have ever tried, although not tried an OSP blade yet.

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Wister said:

Hello

Thanks everybody for your ideas !

@Usualsuspect : Nice description of the difference between Intensity and Infinity. I'd really like to test both in order to see that difference, especially that i play a bit more mid distance with lot of loop (so intensity might actually better seing your description)


Also for an overall update :

I was strongly thinking to go with Infinity + FH rakza 7 2mm + BH rakza 7 soft 2mm

But finally i want to try Chinese rubbers because i think it can fit well my game (i do a lot of spin variation with my serve and FH push and i FH loop with a wide gesture). So I ordered Virtuoso off- ; FH H3N commercial 2.1mm ; BH rakza 7 2mm

Interesting fact about the BH, actually i asked Emratthich about it and he told me that 40° (R7S) is not the best to develop the BH ('if you want to develop your backhand, find something harder than rakza 7 soft') and that R7 is then good



Now i'm waiting for the virtuoso (Very long shipping..). I'm impatient to try it I will try it for a least one month to see what is the result. Also i will have the occasion to try the infinity with rubbers similar to the rakza 7 so it'll give me some additional idea. And if I don't like Chinese rubbers, I will probably do Virtuoso + R7 + R7 or R7S

I will post here what is the result


P.S for Thomas.pong : You confort me with the virtuoso ! About my rating, in France i'm around 700+

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