What blade should I get?

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I have a good forehand loop and I've been thinking of getting a new blade I heard the following are really good for looping:
Rossi fire
Innerforce alc
Timo boll spirit
Timo boll alc
Please tell me which ones are good or suggestions for a different blade. I think I'm sticking with rhyzm p, so preferably something that goes well with that and is less than 150 USD. Thank you.
PS, suggestions for a new rubber would be helpful too

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I can share my experience... Stay away from composite blades. Guided by others in this forum I selected an all wood blade. Super happy with the results my combi is Petr Korbel and Evolution rubbers from Tibhar.

Good luck in your quest!!!


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I have a good forehand loop and I've been thinking of getting a new blade I heard the following are really good for looping:
Rossi fire
Innerforce alc
Timo boll spirit
Timo boll alc
Please tell me which ones are good or suggestions for a different blade. I think I'm sticking with rhyzm p, so preferably something that goes well with that and is less than 150 USD. Thank you.
PS, suggestions for a new rubber would be helpful too

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Good is always relative to level. IT's hard to tell whether someone needs a different blade over the internet. But usually, if someone is asking, then the person should stick to a wooden blade. A few questions:

What is your playing level and best results?
What is your current blade?
Do you have any video of yourself playing?
 
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If you really want to improve, get a slower OFF- or ALL+ blade. It's a common mistake to get fast blades before developing good technique and your current blade is much too fast. Do you have regular coaching? Any special reason you need such a fast blade?
 
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I dunno, he uses that blade, and it was cheap and he recommended it. My second coach is (you might know him) yuan xiao jie. He says it's OK.

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OK - then use whatever your coach recommends. It makes no sense asking people who have never seen you play what a good blade for you is. In my experience, people who use blades as fast as the one you have chosen develop bad habits, but if your coach is okay with it, then use what your coach is okay with.
 
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I agree with the statements about fast blades not being good for starters.
There are a lot of blades in the All+ and OFF- category that will do.
In the end you will find a paddle with the right grip, hardness and flex that fit you and your style.
Asking a forum is not the way to find the perfect paddle. Trying many paddles will give you a good start.

My coach basically told me that nothing I can buy, and I can afford anything, will make me a better table tennis player So basically it is all what you like to play with. Don't spend a lot of money.

One of my practice partners has the same coach I do. He bought a LQ-1 or LQ-2 with Reflectoid on both sides but he can still loop like crazy. TT is more about technique than equipment so get what feels good to you and work on your technique skills and stamina.
 
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All of the posts above are top quality and worth understanding.

I will try to explain why a blade that is all wood and between All+ and Off- speed rating is generally best for when someone that level wants to have a racket that will help the development of their game the most.

An all wood blade gives you more dwell time and feeling. It helps you feel the ball when the ball is on the racket. The feedback that you get from that is different than the kind of feedback you get from a carbon blade. The feedback from an all wood blade actually helps you adjust your contact, over time, so that the contact improves and your shot quality gets better. This happens on a sub-cortical level. That means you are not even conscious of it happening. This is because good contact actually feels good and bad contact does not. So your body learns to make that contact that feels better faster.

With a blade with carbon, the carbon actually helps make a ball that is not contacted as well feel better and you get better shot than you should from a ball that is not really contacted well. However, that "enlarged sweetspot" effect that a carbon blade gives you making it possible to mess up more and get away with it, slows down your improvement because it causes you to develop and improve your contact for spin much more slowly.

The extra control, the extra dwell time from an all wood blade that is not too fast: they help your strokes get better faster. They help you learn how to spin the ball more.

With a carbon blade you are much more likely to continue hitting the ball too directly and not getting enough spin on the ball. At a level under 2000-2100 one of the most important things is learning how to spin the ball well so your strokes have power and accuracy.

The slower blade also can help give you the incentive to learn how to get your body into your stroke more fully. A carbon blade does so much to give your ball more pace that you don't learn how to generate as much power from your body mechanics during your stroke. So it will take longer to get your strokes to a higher level.

If you can generate good pace with an All+ or Off- blade while looping the ball with good spin, you are probably doing a lot right. It would be well worth your development to have a moderate speed all wood blade with top flight rubbers on it.

Blades to consider would be:

Nexy Peter Pan
Tibhar Kim Jung Hoon
Tibhar Stratus Power Wood
Stiga Allround Evolution
Yasaka Sweden Extra
Butterfly Primorac Off-

If you wanted to go fancier and more expensive:

OSP Virtuoso (Off-)
OSP Virtuoso+
Nittaku Acoustic

Any of those blades would be really good for developing and improving your technique.

But in the end, whatever you wind up using, focus on technique first.
 
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I very OFTEN bash the pundits for saying that the ONLY way to play TT is with this or that equipment class and thin rubbers haha.

Yet, at heart, I pretty much agree with the method of their thinking in that with the right guidance, such an appropriate class of All+ to OFF- or low end OFF wood blades will help out in the areas described. (and for the reasons carl and others describe)

I am SO AGAINST the exclusive thinking that there is only one right way. If that waz true, I would be 1200 and Carl trying so many blades (he tried 10x moar than meez !!) would have negative rating and we all know Carl's (improving) (and about to be in a few months - BREAKTHROUGH) level.
 
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