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DHS (1)

DHS PF4 032

Speed	8.0
Control	8.5
Stiffness	7.0

Hardness	6.7
Consistency	10.0
Overall	9.0

Review of DHS PF4 032

Tried this blade (shake hand grip) 18 years ago with 38mm ball, which was an old version with oval shaped handle and with the number "032" engraved at the bottom of the handle. Weighted more than 120g (according to the details of a factory re-made version that I also have). It worked well with Chinese tacky inverted rubber with mid hard sponge, able to produced good spin, speed, and control when looping, driving at all distance. Even able to chop well with a 1.8mm soft sponge tacky rubber (although chopping was not its best) while maintaining good speed in attacking.
Pros: outstanding control, good speed, one-can-do-all blade, cheap
cons: very heavy in today's standard

May 10, 2016

Friendship/729 (2)

Friendship/729 WA-2

Speed	6.8
Control	9.0
Stiffness	5.0

Hardness	5.2
Overall	9.0

Review of Friendship/729 WA-2

Tested the blade with several rubbers, including thin sponge pips in, mid-thick pips out and anti. Although Friendship has marked that blade as attacking blade, it feels lack of power for drive-attack when using soft sponge rubber (Friendship 729 fx 1.5mm blue sponge), as I feel some power has been "absorbed" by the wood. But this " power absorption" makes the blade good for looping, chopping and close range blocking. Control is excellent as the mid-soft wood gives extra ball dwelling time.

Dec 07, 2015

Friendship/729 Black Whirlwind

Speed	7.5
Control	9.0
Stiffness	5.0

Hardness	6.7
Overall	8.5

Review of Friendship/729 Black Whirlwind

Friendship marked it as defensive blade but IMO it is more like an ALL to ALL+. This balde is just an average blade with no other special qualities. Good control, speed is average but can be high if you hit or strike hard. Recommended to beginners and intermediate players.

Dec 07, 2015

Globe (1)

Juic (1)

Juic Exacta

Speed	7.2
Control	8.0
Stiffness	3.0

Hardness	5.2
Overall	8.5

Review of Juic Exacta

Exacta means "exact" in Portuguese, this blade just meets its name perfectly, it gives you what you want exactly. Build quality of the blade is good, the edge comes with factory original protection and the tip of the handle is fitted with a rubber component, in which the manufacturer claims it is for vibration absorption purpose. Not much vibration even fitted the blade with thin sponge rubber. I have tried several rubbers with this blade, including built-in-tension-inverted (Mizuno Opti 1.8mm), slick anti with sponge varies from 0.4mm to 1.0mm (Joola Amy Control 0.4mm, Hallmark Mirage 0.5mm custom sponge, Dr Neubauer Gorilla and Grizzy 1.0mm) thick and short pips of very thin sponge to mid-thick sponge (Friendship 802-40 0.5mm and Xiying 889 0.5mm and 1.8mm). Amazingly all rubbers are doing what they should do on this blade: when using the built-in-tension-inverted the blade becomes an OFF- blade, which is able to loop and attack at all distance with strong spin and mid-high throw angle, when equipped with the antis the not-too-hard wood helps to absorb some power from the incoming ball and send the ball back with spin reversal, when blocking/hitting with short pips it gives good control and speed. Control is good with various rubber types. Highly recommend this blade to beginner as the weight is so light and the handle size is thin
Pros: good balance between speed and control, light weighted, good built quality, small handle for youngsters
Cons: must seal the blade surface. I tried to seal the top pile with 1 layer of water based lacquer, used an adhesive film (which is a very sticky Japanese one) to attached a rubber to the blade, some wood on the top piles had been peeled off!

May 11, 2016

Nimatsu (1)

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Nimatsu Tsunami DEF Light

Speed	8.0
Control	8.5
Stiffness	5.0

Hardness	6.7
Overall	8.0

Review of Nimatsu Tsunami DEF Light

Tested the blade with a Victas V0>102 SP 1.8mm and Giant Dragon Guard anti 0.4mm. The blade comes with a balsa core around 8mm thick, which adds some mid-low catapult effect to the blade. May not be ideal for close range blocking, but chopping or hitting away from the table is easy, does not feel lack of power even it is feather-light. Control is not bad for a blade with that kind of balsa core, but have to be careful of over hitting at close range. IMO this is more like an All+ blade good at sudden counter attack, as the blade does not absorb the power of incoming ball well. It can even become an offensive blade when paired with tensioned rubbers.

Dec 07, 2015

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