Advice for training blade- Xiom Musa Asia vs. Yasaka Sweden Extra?

Lula said:

I think you may be one of the few people that actually is wise enough to go from a faster to a slower setup. I think this will be good for your technique. But going from tenergy to Mark V will be alot slower, and i agree with the above that you could try them on your current faster blade. Many of my players play with the Extra and it seems to be a good blade. I think it is not really that slow and feels quite bouncy.

I also think you should try thinking about the technique and shot selection. If you miss something have gone wrong with the motion compared when the ball hits the table. Try thinking what have happened and correct this. A fast way to become safe is to try to do the same shot/motion all the time and move the legs instead. If you miss at the same way all the time you need to change something, can not do the same mistake all the time. I also think that it is important that you play hard on the right type of balls, this may be a reason why you miss.

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UpSideDownCarl said:

It is hard to say. Going from faster to slower is often a hard adjustment for people. The first experience is dissatisfaction with the slower setup. It is an adjustment that is worth taking the time (at least a few months) to fully get used to. Ultimately, if you play solely with the slower setup and really fully get used to it, your mechanics will improve and you will find how to get the power from your strokes rather than from the equipment. So it is worth sticking it out. Because it will help your mechanics improve in ways many people would not understand or think of.

With a fast setup, you can have mediocre form and the setup will do a lot of the work for you and you can end up not realizing your form needs to improve.

With a slower setup, you have to do a lot more right, your form has to improve, for you to get the power into your shots. And when that happens, you can get more out of any setup.

I actually would recommend slightly different stuff. Truthfully, Mark V and either blade you are thinking of would be fine. But I think, perhaps, using more modern rubbers with a slightly slower blade (so, faster spinnier rubbers, slower blade = same overall setup speed) would make more sense.

Mark V are good. But they are a totally different breed of rubbers than the ones you are used to and eventually you are probably going to go back to modern rubbers. So, I say you could stick with modern rubbers and go down to a slightly slower blade than the ones listed above.

Something like:

1) Appelgren Allplay with the rubbers you already are using.
2) Appelgren Allplay with Xiom Vega Pro (a rubber with a little more control than Tenergy but still a similar class of rubber).

If you wanted a blade that was slightly faster thant he Appelgren Allplay at a certain point, a step up in speed with a similar quality of control, feel and dwell time would be a Primorac Off-.

The reason I am recommending Allplay is, the ply construction:

Limba-Limba-Ayous-Limba-Limba

Primorac Off- has the same ply construction. The Limba-Limba top and middle ply combination is excellent for helping a player develop their strokes. Whereas the harder top ply of a blade like the Sweden Extra, actually requires a little more precision from the player despite the speed class.

In the end, any of the choices you were thinking of without my input would be fine. I just think slightly slower blade and same rubbers or smaller change in rubbers may be more useful for you based on the description of your play.

Thank you for your response! I’ll check out the Applegren Allplay. Anyone have a used one they want to sell? Haha


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