Stiga Rosewood NCT VII

The best there is. And a real beauty too.

I have been using this blade for two years now with fastarcs airoc astro and finally the Gewo hype xt pro. It is a very ballanced off/off+ blade. Mid stifness and hardness, great speed, great control and very nice feeling (the vibration everyone is talking about). You can play very spiny short game and easily topspin the first ball availlable. When the rally is on you can place the ball extremly well while maintaining a good pace. Looping is relatively easy, blocking is as easy as it can get for a 7-ply and a smash can be pretty fast but not exactly deadly. Combined with harder rubbers it will give you the hitting power but placement should become more difficult. It is forgiving blade if you consider it's speed, but i would't say it has a huge sweet spot, neither a tiny one. All in all a great all-wood blade for an offensive player who usually is on the attack, but can also score some points with smart placement in during the game.

Using this blade for 3 month, with Prasidha Tokyo & tenergy 80 for backhand and Tibhar 1Q Sound for forehand Love the vibration when using this blade, especially when hitting the ball . Great for looping ball, and good for using in close and middle play.

Speed n control are good feeling

I used with Mark V (max) in both sides, it's so powerful speed and nice control far from table ,loop and spin are nice too, block is difficult 'cause i didn't use proper rubber for it. Overall it's amaze blade especially i've got it only $95 US from pingis.se when it was discount that time. Sounds like carbon blade. Some cheaper blade has more spin than this ,such as DHS PG-7. Anyway I LOVE it so much!