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Purchased this blade in a hope to get premium yinhe blade as the price is almost twice compared to Pro 01/ V14 Pro. I was disappointed to say the least.
First, the handle is a lot slimmer than Pro 01 / V14 pro. The initial ball test on bare wood sounds ALL+OFF- speed, Pro 01's sound is higher in pitch. So I assumed the blade would be very slow in game. Another bad thing I discovered is that the smallest sweet spot I had ever seen. It was a circle around 3-4 cm in diameter very close to the handle, not even in the middle. In the middle of the blade ball bounce was as slow/deadish as on the edges.
When I glued the rubbers (Battle 2 gold, H3N provincial) I found the blade to be VERY top heavy and this caused so many mistakes on my part when in game. I'm used to more neutral balance or towards the handle and this caused to miss my shots a lot more often. Small sweet spot + insane flex of the blade makes it very uncontrollable. On low impact shots it's an OFF- blade but when you apply force the ball sinks into the sponge, the bled flexes and then it shoots out with a very high speed. It's hard to control that moment therefore I sold that blade really fast. I guess most intermediate players would be FAR better off with Pro 01 which is A LOT more controllable even though it has higher base speed, but at least it's very linear and predictable.
First, the handle is a lot slimmer than Pro 01 / V14 pro. The initial ball test on bare wood sounds ALL+OFF- speed, Pro 01's sound is higher in pitch. So I assumed the blade would be very slow in game. Another bad thing I discovered is that the smallest sweet spot I had ever seen. It was a circle around 3-4 cm in diameter very close to the handle, not even in the middle. In the middle of the blade ball bounce was as slow/deadish as on the edges.
When I glued the rubbers (Battle 2 gold, H3N provincial) I found the blade to be VERY top heavy and this caused so many mistakes on my part when in game. I'm used to more neutral balance or towards the handle and this caused to miss my shots a lot more often. Small sweet spot + insane flex of the blade makes it very uncontrollable. On low impact shots it's an OFF- blade but when you apply force the ball sinks into the sponge, the bled flexes and then it shoots out with a very high speed. It's hard to control that moment therefore I sold that blade really fast. I guess most intermediate players would be FAR better off with Pro 01 which is A LOT more controllable even though it has higher base speed, but at least it's very linear and predictable.