plies

I’m Fabio, an Italian TT player and historian. I’ve just published “Racchette spezzate” (Broken rackets”, the story of the greatest TT champions who died before reaching sixty years old. A “Spoon River” of table tennis!! – see attachment I’m at present quite confused about my equipment and...

I just got two new blades and I can’t find anything on the composition of them: 1) Yasaka Sweden Extra 2) Yasaka Silver All Wood Attached are pictures of the plies. Both are 5-ply all wood blades. I read that Sweden Extra has anegre (anigre) as an outer ply, but nothing on the inner plies...

Just wondering... Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Xu Xin all use blades with walnut top ply. Why do you think they use a hard top ply? Ma Lin loop-drives a lot, but Wang Hao's and Xu Xin's game are more about looping at mid-distance. Won't a soft top ply help generate more spin?

"Feel of ball", affected by thickness of plies/quality management or am Im Crazy? Hi guys! When I was researching for a new blade I tested out My TB ALC with my friends Viscaria and notice something interesting. Both my friend and I use the exact same rubber at same thickness and boosting...

Hello Everybody, does anybody know what the plies of my blade are made of? It's a nittaku shake carbon offense from the mid eighties. As far as i've been told it's got two thin hinoki plies on the outside and one thick ply in the middle of two thin carbon layers. What is that thick ply? It...

Hi everybody, I just want to find out where in Japan is possible to buy plies of hinoki with 0,5... 1,0 mm thickness. It is very difficult for me to find out some supplier of this wood because most of the search engines (searching in Japan) are not able to find any supplier of ot! The...

Hi Everyone If you are reading that now, please answer. This topic can be amazing! :) Outer ply just teels us much about feel blade/s. If someone knows let me them write what they are characterized these woods(with specific feel). What outer ply fits you the most on soft rubbers? For now, I am...

I am taking this list from the Ooak Forums, this is the link to the thread on that forum: http://ooakforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=7194 I think that knowing what your blade is made of is very helpful in knowing a range of blades that play similarly that work with your style of play, or if...