To me it feels soft and hard at the same time and it somehow feels as if the ball sticks to the blade for a moment. Maybe that is what people call 'magical'.
But how do you describe feelings? Hard to find the right words.
I guess there is a reason why people say you have to try it and feel it for yourself.
Yeah, also, Hinoki is a wood where a blade with all Hinoki will not have one speed. It will have a range of speeds. It will be slow on certain shots and much faster on other shots.
And, lasta, the thing about Hinoki is that, if you make direct contact (drive contact) it does not feel special. If you make tangential contact (brush or loop contact) it grabs the ball harder than anything else.
What it feels like when it does that is very hard to define and you really do simply have to feel it.
But you should know, those one ply Hinoki blades, especially the good ones, are pretty expensive and VERY EASY TO BREAK. They are easy to break because they are ONE PLY. They split down the grain of the wood.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]Sorry. But these blades, only some can feel what they do. And you have to try them to see. Some people feel a boring dish rag when they try Hinoki. Others feel something that there really aren't words to describe it. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]Borrow a blade that is Hinoki from someone at a club who has a Hinoki blade and try it. If it feels like Plain Jane, Hinoki is not for you. If you go, "Oh my, this feels amazing," then you will get how that grab and hold and how the ball propels out of the blade with a ton of spin and speed, you will get what that feels like. But I don't have words for it.
And the words crisp and crunch were not about Hinoki. They were about other woods that are easier to put words to how they feel.
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