Advice for Teammate

[biaxialerzug]

Hi, I'm currently looking for a new Blade/Rubber combination for my teammate.
At the moment he is playin a TSP Balsa Fitter 6.5 with the darker outer plies (walnut?), FH a Tibhar Quantum X Pro in 2.0 and BH a Tibhar Evolution MX-P 50° Version in 1.9 mm. He has a German TTR rating of about 1780 points, his style is counter and block with some offensive shots if the ball is in the right position.
His current blade weights 79g, because of the hard rubbers and the missing mass he needs to work very hard to get some fast shots.
So my suggestion was to change to a classic Person Power Play (non Senso version) as it is quite stiff and should be suitable for blocking and counter balls.
FH (as he prefers a harder rubber on the BH) i would suggest a medium hard rubber, FX-P or EL-P in 1.9 mm (maybe also FX-S?). For BH I would suggest a harder rubber, MX-P as he already played the 50° Version.
Anybody who played any of these combinations and can share his/her expertise to find a suitable combination? We would like to stick with Tibhar and Donic as their blades are cheap and we still have to find the right stuff.

Thanks!

 

[Tyce]

I would suggest getting the blade, and transferring the existing rubbers to make it really easy to feel the difference. Then after a few sessions you can always decide to fine tune the choice of rubber.
The change of blade is going to be big

 

[biaxialerzug]

Yeah that would be the best way to do it but rubbers are worn out and we need to buy new rubbers anyway.
He has a very good feeling and years of experience (50+) but newer tested anything on his own and the next shop is not that well equipped and just interested of selling high priced stuff. In my opinion the rubbers he is playing are way to hard because he does not have the power anymore he used to have when he was younger. So he needs a bit more support.
I think he can handle the change from balsa to normal blade as he played several different blades in the past (also carbon blades).

 

[Snek]

"His current blade only weights 25g" 25g for a blade? Ain't no way. Really?

 

[biaxialerzug]

"His current blade only weights 25g" 25g for a blade? Ain't no way. Really?

Haha thank you, I was tired from work and you are right. The scale was not set to zero. Its 79g, thank you!