The Galaxy Venus V-13 blade is the 2010 replacement for the Galaxy K-3 blade. Unlike the direct replacement that most V series blades are to the K series counterparts, the V-13 is thicker, lighter, and faster than the K-3. This moves it from being a control blade and makes it a close to table attack blade.
The CarboKev fiber helps keep your flicks consistent, while the thicker construction keeps your blocks under control.
What is CarboKev?
Each layer of cloth is made up of two fibers, the vertical is Carbon Fiber while the horizontal is made of Kevlar fibers. This gives the sweet-spot of carbon, but less hard and harsh of a feel.
My weighted 99g. So consistency should be 5 not 10. With rubbers it became too heavy so I modified it suitable to quite much smaller rubbers. Now with Tenergy 05 and Tenergy 05Fx it weights 175g and is awesome. I do not feed numerical ratings, because this blade would have totally different features with 85g weight.
My primary blade for the past 6 months, setup with Red diamond (FH), Rapid Sound 2.0 (BH). This setup for me excels in blocking and initiating attacks over the table.
The v-13 is a do it all blade.Loops really well and has good speed when needed.The dwell time with this blade is perfect, able to create extreme topspin with this blade while using xiom sigma europe on FH, and xiom vega elite BH.
I bought this blade after reading MindTrip's review. My blade came in at 93 grams. With 729 super FX 2mm on BH and H2 black 2.2mm on FH, the setup feels weight balanced. A linear response, no strange, sudden ramping up of power.Pushes, blocks, drives, loops are good. Easy to impart heavy topspin. There is only a little flex, yet feels solid. The soft feel/feedback is pleasant. In short, suits my all round play with an offensive bias.
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