Nittaku Septear Feel Inner

Another blade that I would love to love, but I just can't. Finish is excellent, actually the handle is so smooth it's slippery! What disappointed me is that the hinoki doesn't really feel like hinoki (I guess the plys are to thin. Joola Nobilis feels much more like hinoki for example). Also the carbon ply is a bit too stiff to my taste. Yet I can't say it's a bad blade, paired with the right rubber (I recommend Hammond Z2) it can do wonders. The experience just wasn't pleasant to me.

I've been using this blade for 8 months. The finish and craftsmanship of it is excellent. Well balanced, the handle is a bit longer and thinner and has some weight to it so that it doesn't become too head heavy with rubbers. The blade feels soft and has great control for touch shots, pushes, slow and medium shots. It feels like an all wood blade. On fast and powerful shots the carbon layers activate and it gives you those extra gears to finish the point. The trajectory of the ball is long with medium arc. It pairs well with medium-hard or hard rubbers. At first, I've had Rakza Z on fh and Rakza X on bh. It paired really well with Rakza Z, but with Rakza X once the rubber lost its grip the trajectory was too flat and long. Now I am using Hammond Z2 on fh and Fastarc G1 on bh and it pairs really well. This is a very high quality blade with great control, feeling, dwell time and more than enough speed and power to win points. I got mine from TableTennis11.com for only 68 euros. To put it in perspective, Butterfly Innerforce ALC is about 150 euros.

Craftsmanship for this blade is out of this world. I have seen Buterfly, Donic, Andro, Yasaka, TSP and many others nothing is like Septear Feel inner. Medium fast, nice handle (FL).. It has may gears, loops is where this blade shines.. When you play drive it has somewhat sound like galloping horse :) It has more than enough speed to finish the point... Unique feel you have to try , not woody and not carbon very specific.