Good: speed, light blade, top spins, smashes. Blocks and feeling: decent.
In general: If you are beginner, start with all wood blade and then make a switch. Do not start with this one. Feeling is decent to great once you are upper-intermediate or advanced player. Conclusion: Faster and lighter than Victas Koki Niwa Wood but latter has a little better control and feeling. Anyway, a good attacking blade.
Review:
85 grams, Andro R50 both sides 2.0 mm.
Phenomenal speed, wonderful control, and easy to use. I’ve used Hurricane Long 5, Long 3, Fang Bo 1 and 2 and 2x, TBALC, they do not compare in any of those departments. If there was one blade it felt similar to, it would the speed of the TBZLC but control of the Long 3. Easy to loop with, easy to spin low balls, super easy to block with and almost impossible to go off the table when being passive or active on blocks, lobs are easy, countering is easy. I enjoyed the fact that when I brushed off the receive or my third ball, a lot of people had trouble keeping the ball on the table or if it did land, it was high and easy to kill. It is a viscaria on steroids. I would highly reccomend this over viscaria any day. Price is better too.
Only one issue, the short game can be a bit of trouble when flipping, I found in flipping even heavy backspin, I would go off the edge of the table by a small margin, it may be my technique but never had big issues before doing it. Perhaps it may be the R50 is too hard to hold and spin in those circumstances. May edit if I find it easier to flip with a small technique change.
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