I LOVE this blade. The control is just so high on it, you shots immediately become more consistent, and at least at a low level, that instantly raises your game. I used to go back and forth with faster setups and offensive style, good weeks and bad weeks, losing to people I should never lose to and getting a game off of a guy way out of my league sometimes.
This blade I am consistently beating everyone near my level. I've gone 20 wins 2 losses in my club matches with this blade, 1 loss was to a guy who's like 600 points higher than me and I've never gotten a game off of, the other one was deuces in the 5th game and I beat him the next week.

But I'm beating everyone near my level consistently due to consistency, and the long pips help. But with the placement power, I'm beating a lot of people I've never beaten before, one guy is supposed to be rated 400 points higher than me but I beat him 3-0 just using careful placement.

It's got an oversized head, but the blade it still light, I have a straight handle and it's veeery easy to twiddle.

I'm using Donic Akkadi 1.5mm in black on the forehand and it surprisingly gives plenty of power but with the blade maintains a very high level of control in all areas. Very easy to block with it, chops took a little adjustment coming from smushy sponge tackiness chop, but are very good when I mix in sidespin forehand chops. It still has plenty of looping power a few steps away from the table and of course anything near or over the table gets killed when I feel the need.

Backahnd is Pogo ox long pips, very high control allaround long pips, still missing a few hits with them and my blocking needs work, but that's my fault having only been using long pips for a month or so now after a year away from them. Chopping near or a few steps away from the table on slower balls is very easy and consistent, further back I'm still working on chopping hard hit, low spin balls, sometimes with those I just have to lob them back, which is also easy to do.

Short game and serves are excellent. You can keep everything short and very low chopping over and near the table to bog down their attacking game. No springiness here!

I just love this blade, it's the one that I always comes back to when I've tried other defensive blades. For pure chopping there are better blades but the Defplay brings so much more than just chopping ability. Probably one of the things I like most about it is the maneuverability when playing close to the table which most other defensive blades lack. It blocks and chop-blocks really well! The offense is also very good for a defensive blade, especially at the table and it's very easy to twiddle. It's very light but still with a very good balance.

I can only complain about one thing and that's the thin handle, but that can be fixed by adding some soft-grip or by changing the "grip-blocks". I've changed the grip-blocks to Persson Power AR blocks on one of my Defplays and that worked really well, that's actually the blade I'm playing with at the moment.

To sum it up I would call this blade the "allrounder" of defensive blades, it's simply nothing it can't do well!

Very good blade, a lot of control and fast enough for a good attack

Some Chinese pros are using this now.....Wang Xi, Wu Yang the kudos is growing

I usually play with Matsushita Pro Model blade and I recently tried Defplay Senso. This blade is very soft, even softer than Pro model. Senso is lighter (mine is 72 g) and provides amazing control while choping. I would say that Senso is a little bit faster than Pro Model during offensive strokes. The Senso technology is quite efficient : marellous control but hugh power when needed, with lots of sensations... Excellent blade for modern or classical defense (my favorite with Pro Model).

Excellent blade for modern defense.
I'm using Xiom OmegaIVPro 2mm in black on the forehand.

This is the first defensive blade I've used. The handle is not very comfortable and causes blisters. Chopping with it is good. You can feel a lot of vibrations with this blade. Blocking is not very good though.

Wonderful control blade!

Lightweight despite being a little oversized. Amazing touch and feel.

Let me first emphasize this is not an attacker's blade by any stretch of the imagination! With a fast rubber you can make effective power shots but others do it far better. The bread and butter of this blade is in the defensive game.

Chops, pushes, blocks all shine when performed. Counter top spin loops ala the modern defense style can be performed with great control.

Comfortable flared handle. You take hold of the grip and never want to let it go! As if you just yanked excalibur from the stone... you stand in awe of the innate power now coursing through your hand.

In conclusion: A fantastic blade for defenders, control oriented players, or beginners due to the high control and soft feel.

I will state be mindful of putting overly slow rubbers on this weapon... Yes, they may work for you such as reflectoid and geospin tacky. Even for control oriented games you will eventually begin to feel the lack of power. Anyone other than a beginner should opt for a quicker setup. I can guarantee your game will improve by leaps and bounds simply by slapping a slightly faster rubber on.

Skilled hands capable of wielding this wonderstick will doubtlessly break wills and steal souls!

A number of professional players use this blade. My favorite being the female defender Wu Yang.