Glass Fiber table tennis blades

Hi, used used to play with a tsp balsa 6.5. Very fast and controlled blade with good feel. About £50 if I remember correctly

Amaken23 said:

Hello, everyone. First of all, I'd like to wish all of you merry and happy christmas with your loved ones .

I have a question about blades with glass fibre. At the moment I am playing with this blade :

https://revspin.net/blade/donic-waldner-diablo-senso.html

(limba-glassfibre-ayous-glassfibre-limba). It is a great blade for me and I think I found my niche in those kind of blades. I'd like to ask if any of you know an ALL+, OFF- or even OFF blade with glassfibre that is currently on the market ? I want to try different blades with glassfibre.

Thanks in advance

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Merry Christmas to you, too.
Off the top of my head I can think of 3 -4 blades that have glass-fibre/ fibre-glass as composite layers:

- Nittaku Ludeack Fleet (http://www.tabletennis11.com/other_eng/nittaku-ludeack-fleet)
- DHS Hurricane King 3 (http://www.tabletennis11.com/other_eng/dhs-hurricane-king-iii)
- DHS Hurricane Hao 3 (http://www.tabletennis11.com/other_eng/dhs-hurricane-hao-iii)

All three blades are quite pricey, but generally a little cheaper in Asia (Prott, ttnpp, tt-japan etc.)

- Andro Treiber G (discontinued I believe, but still available here and there and perhaps on for sale sections as 2nd hand; https://www.megaspin.net/store/default.asp?pid=a-treiber-g)

Nittaku Barwell Fleet, great blade but quite expensive.

Tsp black balsa and some other TSP blades are glass fibre composite

You can search for "Glas fibre" on stervinou.net which is a database for blades.
It's not up to date nor complete but it can help though.

Here's the result:

It is not technically glass fibre, but I have a Donic Epox PowerAllround that was given to me about a year ago (with soft rubbers on it, I think they are Desto F3 but would need to check) and I think it comes close. A guy who plays in lower leagues around here just gave it to my brother for testing at some point, and didn't want it back: after EJ-ing his way around, he now has three or four of these set-ups and swears by them.

Depending on the reason you are looking for fibre, it could be an option. Its main characteristics are that it is very stable and with a pretty large sweetspot, rather hard feeling but still good touch - very easy to control due to solid All+ / low Off- speed and, to me at least, limited gears. Light in hand and extremely balanced with these soft rubbers, and a nice handle which is on the larger side (not extreme by any means).

It gives a fairly low-pitched sound - "shpock" is what comes to mind... you're welcome - and does feel like you quickly hit a ceiling on harder strokes. Still enough on flat hits, mind you, but not mind-blowing in terms of looping. Of course, the rubbers which are on mine have something to do with that, but at least in combination with the mid-high stiffness, that makes it very predictable (who said boring?.. see next paragraph).

I personally like something livelier, but if I was looking to play at the table, block quite a bit and hardly ever overshoot the table, this could be an excellent option. Note that none of these characteristics are in the extreme, it is still good in all kinds of shots (just don't plan too much on counter-looping three meters away from the table). Also, I am slightly biased in that I just love the feel of all-wood blades so once again, it depends on what you are looking for in glass fibre.

I have seen Barwell Fleet played with H3 and it's a very loud Plink [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

You can try Yinhe Y-13, I have bought, I Think, 4 of them in the last 4 years.

They have good feeling, not that carbon frying pan feeling, they weighted arround 90 gr, same thickness, same finish.

For the price, 12€, I dont think you can find a better fiber blade.

Quite fast, but a very good blade.

They are expensive, so no thank you.

Yinhe Earth 3VB (allround+ off-) is my go-to fiberglass blade. Granted i havent tried any other fiberglass blades but i don't think i need to.
I would also like to add I love this blade. It offers me much better feedback than the w-6 and it turned me off from carbon blades.