Amitarora1319 said:
Hi Carl,
just read your your post on blade woods and their characteristics.can you please help in providing your inputs to my thread.
you can find the thread here
https://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?14989-Need-help-in-setup-I-am-frustrated
Would really appreciate your insights.
Okay. I think there has been some pretty decent posts and some that just confuse things.
I am guessing from what I have scanned in the posts I read, and I did not feel like reading everything, is that the difference from the old setup to the new one is just a big change.
These two things should help you figure out more of what is going on:
1) Take the T05fx rubbers off the Viscaria and try them on the old blade.
2) take the rubbers from the old blade and try them on the Viscaria.
This should give you an idea of how different the T05fx rubbers are from the ones you were using. And how different the Viscaria is from the blade you were using.
Then you may be able to figure out if you like the blade and not the rubbers or if you like the rubbers but not the blade.
My guess is that the biggest issue going on is that you had a blade that was all wood with a softer top ply and you had harder rubbers.
Now you have a harder blade that is carbon. I know someone in the thread said that a Viscaria is soft. But that is just a silly statement. Koto is a hard wood like NextLevel said and a Viscaria is not a soft blade. So you have a relatively hard Carbon blade with soft rubbers and you had a relatively soft all wood blade with harder rubbers before.
That is a totally weird adjustment to make. So adjusting to that will be hard.
You mentioned you had a Jonyer H as one of your previous blades. I can say that the Jonyer H is one of the softest blades I have ever tried. Hinoki is a soft soft wood. Unlike Koto. Hinoki also makes it very easy to grab and spin the ball.
Now, if you wanted to change the equipment to rectify the situation and you got yourself a softer blade with harder rubbers, that might work. I am not really sure. But it might. You could try something like a Darker 7p-2A if you wanted the soft grab of the Hinoki.
You could try a Petr Korbel, Liu Shiwen, Ai Fukahara or a Tibhar Stratus Power Wood if you want a soft blade with a Limba top ply.
All blades mentioned will help you generate massive spin.
OR, you can take the equipment you chose as an experiment. If you do a bunch of training and skip match play for a week or two, within a month to 2 months you should be used to it enough to feel how to use the new equipment.
To me it sounds like the main issue you are having has more to do with what you just got being SOOOOOOOO different from what you were previously using that it will be A BIG ADJUSTMENT.
But if you use it. And keep using it and really get used to it, in a few months, if you tried your old blade after really grooving things with the new blade, you will say to yourself when you try the old one: "I can't believe I liked this thing!" [emoji2]
Okay, that may take a year or three of using before that happens. But if you really got fully used to your new setup, it would happen.
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