Donic Anders Lind Hexa Carbon

I’ve tried many fast blades — like the Carbospeed, Waldner Legend, Timo Boll ALC, and recently the Stiga Wavy... But this Donic blade is the one I’ve been looking for all along. The handle is the perfect size for my average-sized hand, and the 85g weight feels perfectly balanced when paired with two 50° hybrid rubbers in 1.9mm. The racket even feels light. In the short game, it’s easy — it feels like a classic 5-ply all-wood blade: short, controlled, effortless touch shots. The blade is stiff, yet the ball doesn’t shoot off uncontrollably unless you really engage the stroke, and topspins are loaded with spin. It’s surprisingly easy to lift backspin balls. I get the feeling this racket offers several well-defined gears: soft, controlled short play; heavy, high-arching topspins or fast, direct loops; and powerful flat hits that blast through spin. It’s become my number one blade (in my opinion, even better than the red Zhang Jike), and for the price, it’s a no-brainer.

I have been using the Anders Lind Hexa Carbon for 3 months now, so I think it is the right time to review the blade. The blade has good control and good speed at the same time—simply, the control and speed this blade offers is superb. However, the blade is quite stiff, which limits spin creation a lot. My usually strong serves felt a bit less spinny, which was something that affected me. So yeah, good speed and control, but significantly less spin due to the Koto wood layer. Not a blade for begginers or even intermediate players. I recommend the blade to better intermediate players and advance players.

Awesome control. Produces a lot of spin. Gentle Carbon feel. Plays almost like all wood. Not 2 fast. Good quality. Handle is great. Looks very nice. Weighs less than most of my blades - 84g. Has just enough feeling for developing players, even with rubbers that tend to mute the feeling of the ball - Ten05FX. Sweetspot is alright. Best blade for a beginner IMO. Lobs are easy, blocks ez, putting ball back on the table is so intuitive to me with this blade, banana the best you will ever do, strawberry even better, cuts go on table nicely. Real joy to play with. If you put very spinny rubber like Ten05-FX it can produce truly comical arc on slow, controlled brushes. I think this blades shines with spin oriented rubbers. Wish it was tiny bit cheaper, so I would buy 2nd one. The only downside is that it doesn't outright destroy the oponent on flat hits or far from table, but to me this blade has no faults and is close to perfection. Only Hurricane Hao 3 comes close and that blade is almost perfect aswell - more offensive, less spin, even better feeling. Other similiar blades to this I would say is Yasaka Ma Lin Soft Carbon, but it has less feeling and speed, control though the same. I highly recommend this blade. Huge props to Donic for this one and actually listing which wood they've used to make a blade. Probably only company that does that. TY DONIC! That is my first Donic blade and certainly not last.

It's a good blade, and very good price performance ratio. Crisper and faster than an innerforce, a bit harder feel.

The arc that this blade creates is CRAZY! On first loops i feel that i can go full power, and the blade will make sure that the ball will land on table regardless. When looping, the kick on the opponent's side of the table is crazy, especially when in the first loop the kick is very strong and can throw a lot of people off. Pushing short is slightly tough since the blade has a noticeable catapult effect, and aboe average touch is required. However, its very good for long pushes, since the blade creates the arc for you, you can use all your stength in creating spin, and the ball will stay low. Same can be said for chop blocks, you really dont have to worry about keeping the ball low as much. It can make relatively slow shots with just the wood when required, but when you want to play power, the inner carbon activates so you can also play power. Really good blade for relatively versatile players. If you want to just loop and smash, theres defenitely faster blades than this, and if you block more than you loop, its also not worth it. Paired it with a hurricane 3 on fh and a bluegrip c2 on bh