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Hi guys,
as a very old table tennis beginner (>40 yo) i found it quite easy to learn the first habbit in table tennis that is being an EJ.
Now i do have a fair share of blades that i already tested, but right now there is only the decision for me to decide to play one of two Nittaku blades. One would be my main blade and the other would be my secondory/spare one. I just wanted to have two similar blades, but not so similar that it would be pointless to buy the same twice.
I do own a Nittaku Violin weighing 87g and a Nittaku Violin Inner Carbon 84g currently. Now common sense would be that two blades being equal in all but weight, you would deem the lighter one to be the one with more control and less speed, correct ?
Before ordering the Nittaku Violin Inner Carbon blade i would have thought that it would be heavier then the full wood one. That is why i thought that i would "tone" down the rubbers on the carbon one to make it a little slower/easier and to somehow even things out, so that they would be more similar to play.
The full wood regular Violin currently has the Tibhar Evolution EL-S in 1.9-2.0mm on FH and Butterfly Tenergy 05 FX in 1.9mm on the Backhand.
The initial thought was to fit the carbon Violin with Tibhar Evolution EL-S in 1.7-1.8mm and FastArc G-1 in 1.8mm.
I know that the G-1 got a quite harder sponge than the 05 FX, but i wanted to see if there is some kind of synergy using the Nittaku Rubber on the Nittaku brand.
Does such a "evening out" of rubbers even work to make similar blades even more similar or do you guys think it is pointless ?
I will probably go along with that rubber setup for the carbon blade anyways, even though it is quite lighter than the full wood one. Is it possible that this inner carbon Violin would then be even slower than the full wood one ?
Thanks guys
as a very old table tennis beginner (>40 yo) i found it quite easy to learn the first habbit in table tennis that is being an EJ.
Now i do have a fair share of blades that i already tested, but right now there is only the decision for me to decide to play one of two Nittaku blades. One would be my main blade and the other would be my secondory/spare one. I just wanted to have two similar blades, but not so similar that it would be pointless to buy the same twice.
I do own a Nittaku Violin weighing 87g and a Nittaku Violin Inner Carbon 84g currently. Now common sense would be that two blades being equal in all but weight, you would deem the lighter one to be the one with more control and less speed, correct ?
Before ordering the Nittaku Violin Inner Carbon blade i would have thought that it would be heavier then the full wood one. That is why i thought that i would "tone" down the rubbers on the carbon one to make it a little slower/easier and to somehow even things out, so that they would be more similar to play.
The full wood regular Violin currently has the Tibhar Evolution EL-S in 1.9-2.0mm on FH and Butterfly Tenergy 05 FX in 1.9mm on the Backhand.
The initial thought was to fit the carbon Violin with Tibhar Evolution EL-S in 1.7-1.8mm and FastArc G-1 in 1.8mm.
I know that the G-1 got a quite harder sponge than the 05 FX, but i wanted to see if there is some kind of synergy using the Nittaku Rubber on the Nittaku brand.
Does such a "evening out" of rubbers even work to make similar blades even more similar or do you guys think it is pointless ?
I will probably go along with that rubber setup for the carbon blade anyways, even though it is quite lighter than the full wood one. Is it possible that this inner carbon Violin would then be even slower than the full wood one ?
Thanks guys
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