Flexible outer layer (e.g. Limba, Spruce) manditory for Chinese technique?

[FruitLoop]

Don't overthink this and spend time researching. Try a Limba blade, try a koto blade. Maybe try several of each that you like. Get some handle you like. Pick the one you like best. Stick with it. Go slow. Inner fiber is better than outer, all wood is better than both if you are an amateur player almost always. Picking something you have tested and love the feel of and then sticking with it is the most important thing though. If that's a Timo Boll ALC, so be it. Using that forever would be better than becoming an EJ.

 

[M.Hoang]

really good answer. Buy some blades and try them, i have seen so many blades really good with the same structure with BTF blades or another with cheap price. they play very similarly =)))) and some things that you should care are the size of blades, handle.... They affect not small to you.