Hello to everybody,
I would like to know your opinions about how the blades before the plastic ball era are still a valid option today when we have the plastic balls and new rubbers adapted to this plastic ball.
I am interested in all wood blades, ALL and ALL+ blades (examples: Nittaku Violin, Nittaku Accoustic, Stiga Allround Classic, Butterfly Primorac, etc ).
Do you consider that these "old" blades are obsoleted and the new balls/rubbers require new blades made with the new technologies (like ZLF, ZLC, etc ) or the "old" blades are still a valid option today?
Best regards.
Hi Max,
I started playing again around 1 3/4 yrs ago, after a 30yr lay off!!
So I missed the speed glue era,
Missed the ball size change,
Now, everyone has been saying that -
1) the ball is slower, how much slower ??? Not sure if this has been calculated?? but it would be interesting to know.
2) harder to produce spin / new ball is less spinny!!!!
This is likely to be true!!
However , when you have been away for a long time you don’t really have a reference point for the changes.
There’s loads of spin out there !!! There’s loads of speed out there !!
regarding obsolete equipment - I think rubbers more so than blades. Sriver, Mark V, etc are still around but with modern variations
I have 2 Tamca 5000 blades from 30+yrs ago, pre speed glue era, these, are a far as I’m concerned ‘super fast’ and for me way too fast, (NOW!!!)
I even put 2 sheets of Aibiss on one of them because I thought that Aibiss was too slow on an all wood all round blade and that I would be able to handle it on the Tamca blade, WRONG !!!!!!
30+ years ago, the Tamca 5000 blade paired with Tackiness D and Sriver was my ‘go to’ set up!!!
the only thing that’s really becoming ‘obsolete’ over time is ME !!!!