Tell me how it feels afterwards. I'm thinking about getting a Innerforce blade to replace my Viscaria, feels like my Viscaria is too fast for me sometimes.
Oh, I can already tell you how Innerforce blades compare to Viscaria (if you are using tenergy 05 or 80), since I got a few of them already (innerforce layer ALC/ZLC/Appolonia). TLDR I like the ALC the best, it gives you a lot more control over Viscaria, and you don't really loose the speed if hitting with enough force.
Now the long version. I started looking for a blade that fits my playstyle about half a year ago, and has gone through quite a few blades, used Viscaria for about 2 months last year and really like the feel of the blade. By feel I mean I can feel what the ball will do after my paddle touched it, though not necessarily what I intend the ball to do. Used Hurricane 8 39° 2.2mm on forehand at the time, backhand was skyline 3-60 37° 2.1mm. And I figured that the reason the ball isn't always doing what I want it to do is because the paddle as a whole was a bit too fast for me, so I switched to an all wood blade (stiga nostalgic oc), same rubber, but now the ball feels really slow when hitting with the same amount of force. So I knew I needed something in between the two, and that's when I remembered the innerforce series, so I figured why not start with the zlc version, since it is nicknamed "the Queen's Scepter" (literal translation from Chinese, it was Zhang Yining blade of choice, though she was using innerforce zlc, not the innerforce layer zlc). Anyway, liked the backhand, not the forehand, can't really explain why but it just didn't feel right with the zlc. And after trying the blade with hurricane 8 and totally hating the combination, I switched to tenergy 05 (fh) / 80 (bh), which felt a lot better on the backhand but still not the forehand. And finally I tried the innerforce alc, with the tenergy rubbers, and now it feels just right, the feel of the ball is back, and I can still get enough control to make it do what I want it to do. And my coach who's been playing with a stiga maplewood v and hurricane 3 for several years now also likes the feel of it.
But I have to say what I said once before in another post, all these talks about equipment is really not that useful to others. It's fun to read others talking about it and discuss what you like/dislike, but table tennis is a very delicate sport and a lot of that depends on the feel of the equipment you are using, and with feeling there is no such thing as objective, so you'll have to try it yourself to be sure.
but I'll be putting dignics 05 on it first thing when I get it.
