Stiga Cybershape

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Good review, gives a clear sense of how the blade plays and who might like it. One quibble about generating spin. A common myth is that extra surface area for the ball to roll on gives more spin, but that's wrong. (Contact time about 1 ms. Ball circumference 125 mm. Max serve spin speed 60 rps. So ball rolls around 8 mm on blade width 150 mm.) Any blade has more than enough room for the ball to get its maximum roll at any contact point other than the extreme trailing edge. It does help to contact the ball further from the axis of rotation (closer to the tip) for more swing speed, but that's a different story.
 
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Good review, gives a clear sense of how the blade plays and who might like it. One quibble about generating spin. A common myth is that extra surface area for the ball to roll on gives more spin, but that's wrong. (Contact time about 1 ms. Ball circumference 125 mm. Max serve spin speed 60 rps. So ball rolls around 8 mm on blade width 150 mm.) Any blade has more than enough room for the ball to get its maximum roll at any contact point other than the extreme trailing edge. It does help to contact the ball further from the axis of rotation (closer to the tip) for more swing speed, but that's a different story.
How dare you?! Exposing facts and numbers instead of personal observations. Blasphemy!

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This might be an impossible question for you to answer, but do you think the cybershape would be well suited to short pimples on the forehand for a close to the table attacking game (Mattias Falck style)?

A friend of mine that have played a really high level tried it(he got it for free). He went back to his Primorac Carbon. As long as the blade is hard enough, as i believe it is it will work fine with short pimples. What do you use now?

 
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This could be a hard question for you to answer, but do you believe the cybershape would be well suited to short pimples on the forehand for a close to the table aggressive game?

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This could be a hard question for you to answer, but do you believe the cybershape would be well suited to short pimples on the forehand for a close to the table aggressive game?
 
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