Donier Defensive

Regards, Brokkie, This week i received the new (version) donier defense blade with straight grip together with a talon black ox and a Topenergy soft red max. My first impression was : WOW! what a quality. :clap: Kees was right. Very nicely made. Handle and feel are nice. Bouncing it a little it was somewhat faster than my old defplay i was playing for about 15-20 years. I tried a lot of combination frames (aurora, JZ speedchanger, donic alligator combi) trying to match the speed of my old frame but they always were to fast for my BH. I also tried the defplay classic senso. I didn't like the balsa springy feel for my backhand. Yesterday i played with the new frame. And to be honest: i love it! :up: I have to get used to the lower throw of the blade but this is very nice. Chopping was a dream. Very low balls over the net. I was like it wasn't sensitive to spin. With the old frame sometimes balls popped up but this one keeps them low. It also gave a lot of spin. My opponents netted a lot of balls. FH was also nice even though i changed blade and rubber at the same time as you can see below. Attacking and blocking with the pips was something to get used to. Because of the low throw i netted the first 20 balls. I played mostly defense yesterday loving it :P _________________ brokkie

Great blade for its price. The build quality is not perfect but i won't complain. I use the ST version, the handle is very comfortable, not too thin nor thick so it's very easy to twiddle due to its super light weight with only 5mm thick. I use Japanese Rubber on the FH, topsins are full of control and spin with medium speed, if you hit the ball flat, the blade will flex a lot and shoot the ball faster than you would think, so i try to avoid that. On BH, i've tested it with German Tensor, Chinese Tacky and chinese LP rubbers. I initially tested the LP but seeing how much control i had on the FH, i switched to inverted rubbers. Overall is a good blade for looping, serving and chopping, for high speed FH rallys away from the table and smashes not so much. I recommend this blade for beginners and all around players who like light blades. PD: forgot to mention I did remove material to match the standard BTY blade shape, because the oversize was too awkward and ruined my balance... and it's easier to switch between the many rubbers I test