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But is there any thing that has carbon layer and still react like all-wood?
I have an Arylate Carbon blade,YinHe T8, at first equipped with XIOM Tau and XIOM Vega Elite MAX. I retire the combination after a few play, the blade is too stiff and with Tau's rock hard sponge, the ball comes in (I COME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL lol) and flies off without a single dwell time. SMH...I prefer a good composite blade.
Having said that, my good Nexy/Tibhar composite blades are all cracked (waiting to look for wood clamps to fix em).
So... I am practicing what I preach and using 896 and Instinkt blades with Aurus and XP 2008 on each.
Its easier to play backhand flick with fast blades but it doesn't mean its impossible with slow ones.I have an Arylate Carbon blade,YinHe T8, at first equipped with XIOM Tau and XIOM Vega Elite MAX. I retire the combination after a few play, the blade is too stiff and with Tau's rock hard sponge, the ball comes in (I COME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL lol) and flies off without a single dwell time. SMH...
Those rubbers now are replaced with Donic Acuda S3 (forehand) and Tibhar Aurus (backhand). Both are soft rubbers so dwell time is increased.
Actually I found that the backhand sidespin flick is more easier on stiffer blade. On my MC2, the ball goes into the net directly. Is the equipment or my stroke?
So what is the function of Zylon in there? Stiffen the blade like carbon does?I generally like all wood blades better. The blade I am using now (the Timo Boll ZLF) is one of two blades that is not all wood that I like. The other composite blade I like is Innerforce ZLF. Both have Zylon but not carbon. The carbon deadens the vibrations and makes it harder to feel the ball. Zylon is a plastic like substance which is sort of soft and gives the blade more dwell time. You can still feel the ball pretty much how you would with an all wood blade. But, because it has Zylon it is a composite blade.
There are plenty of all wood blades that I find to be about as good as my TB ZLF. And in general, I like all wood blades better than composite blades. My blade is just one of the exceptions to the rule.
So what is the function of Zylon in there? Stiffen the blade like carbon does?
Zylon is a plastic like substance which is sort of soft and gives the blade more dwell time. You can still feel the ball pretty much how you would with an all wood blade. But, because it has Zylon it is a composite blade.
But they are no match to all wood in terms off dwell time?I will quote myself. If you read, I gave the answer to this:
But, now I will expand the answer. Because Zylon is a soft pliable substance, like Arylate, it gives the blade more dwell time. The ball stays on the surface of the blade for longer because there is more give from the Zylon. So this blade has a lot of control and you can generate a lot of spin with it. It is good for touch and short game. It is good for looping.
The blade is not stiff. There is decent flex to it. When you take a more powerful stroke the rebound effect of the Zylon kicks in and, even though there is more dwell time, the ball comes off the racket decently fast. This blade is a bit faster than a Clipper which is a decently fast all wood blade. So, because of the Zylon, the blade has more gears than most all wood blades. It is slow and good for touch when you go soft. It kicks into another gear when you go hard. Stiga knows ways of getting this effect with all wood blades, where they outer ply is soft and slow but very thin and the inner ply is springy and helps catapult the ball on the power strokes. But the Zylon does it very well.
When you combine Zylon with Carbon, I do not like the effect. The Zylon makes the blade to fast and the Carbon makes it so you can't feel the ball. Arylate is similar to Zylon but a bit softer and a bit slower. When you combine Arylate with Carbon it works better even though I still don't really like that you can't feel the ball and the blade is a bit stiff in blades like TB ALC or TB Spirit. There are some blades that have just Arylate, but there is something off about them. Butterfly used to make a blade called the Timo Boll Spark which was just Arylate with wood and that was really good. I don't know why they stopped making it. It was a little slower than my blade, it had a little more dwell time and great control and feeling. I did not like the handle but the blade played REALLY WELL. There is an Innerforce AL, but that one does not quite work in my opinion. With the two thick plies of Limba over the Arylate ply, it makes the blade too soft and there is not enough effect from the Arylate because it is deeper in the wood. But the Innerforce ZLF does work and is a really great blade.
And when a blade has just Zylon or just Arylate, they feel very much like an all wood blade in most ways.
But they are no match to all wood in terms off dwell time?