Defensive Blades & Rubbers - Hall of Shame

[James Z]

I am starting this thread to give an idea to defensive players (mostly away from the table choppers) as to how clueless & out of touch the manufactureres are when it comes to making rubbers & blades for choppers on the 40+ plastic ball world.

Most of these discussions may also apply to close to the table blocking type defenders using frictionless type long pips.

I have a whole bunch of rubbers & blades I have in mind and will start listing them here one at a time explaining why that rubber or blade is a piece of crap, especially in the 40+ plastic ball era.

However to make things interesting I won't post my first item yet, giving chance to someone else to post a blade or rubber and explain why that rubber or blade is garbage.


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I plead to ITTF to ban all pips & anti to release & set free all of ITTF's political prisoners (choppers / defenders)

 

[merlin el mago]

Different material for classical defenders choppers than for close to the table chop-blockers.

 

[James Z]

With my apologies to Ms.Andrea Jiang of Sanwei who posts here, the first inductee into the hall of shame is Sanwei Two Face defensive dual mode blade.
https://sanweisport.com/english/product/blade/defense/two-face/
i was actually going to order one before a frind of mine showed me the blade. I laughed & laughed
The workmanship looks gerat & the blade looks sexy and all that but functionality wise it s useless
I could not believe how small the blade is. i can see it if some penhold twiddling choppers using this if this was a penhold blade but as a shakehand blade this is a complete joke and definitely belongs in the Hall of Shame I am sorry.
I am not sure if Sanwei makes custom blades but if they do , I would definitely like to try a super large version of this blade with 175 mm width x 175 mm height,(not including handle length , Sanwei includes handle length in length, which is confuding) and if Sanwei can also give me a sticky inverted rubber & a high aspect ratio super long pips rubber to go with it. I think this is could be a very fine blade if it comes in super large size to match the needs of defensive players in the 40+ plastic ball era but this blade may not be good enough even for the 38 ball era. This probably could be a great blade if super large, not only for away from the table choppers but even at the table block defenders. But with such a small head size it is not good enough even for at the table blcoking defenders as there are many better Dr.neubauer blades available

Sanwei could make a fortune inside China alone I think, with such a super large blade in many versions, one with carbon (on offensive side) & one with many composites such as Kevlar or ALC or ZLC or such & one without composite materiai (all wood) etc

I know this may not be polite nice way to request something but in all fairness Sanwei is not the only one who belongs in this Hall of Shame. I will be adding lot more blades and rubbers in this Hall of Shame, the biggest culprit is of course Butterfly .

There are few other blades like Yinhe T9, Giant Dragon Kris carbon & many many Dr.Neubauer blades & rubbers that belong in this Hall of Shame & I will start posting them in this thread one by one in detail in the future.

I wonder how many such blades custom blade makers like SDC blades have produced


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I plead to ITTF to ban all pips & anti to release & set free all of ITTF's political prisoners (choppers / defenders)