February 2012 Monthly Newsletter

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Recent Reviews

	LKT Red Diamond My current FH rubber. Leaps and bounds easier to loop/attack with than 729fx-c I was using before. Grips mainly from friction, the surface is not sticky and handles incoming spin well. Best $14 I\'ve spent on rubber so far. Reviewed by flea03 on February 3, 2012
	JOOLA Rhyzm Hardness is 48 deg, probably a tensor, but hasn\'t got the tensor logo. It is supposed to be like Tibhar Aurus. You can get this rubber from contra.de Reviewed by BryceSpeedMadman on February 3, 2012
	Butterfly Tenergy 64 Using 2.1mm thickness on both sides of an Andro Carbo-Aramid blade. It\'s a good rubber, but definitely not worth 80 dollars. Palio Blit\'z does everything T64 does but with better control and costs half as much. I don\'t see why people rave so much about this rubber... Reviewed by slashattack on February 3, 2012
	Stiga Clipper Wood This is a great blade for close-to-table players, not so much for mid-distance players. the blade is great close to table, because: it has good spin due to the soft wood, and has good control because of the stiffness. It is not so good from mid distance, because it is not powerful, due to the stiffness and the soft wood. The blade is almost stiff. Actually you can still feel a bit of flex but much less than the Stiga Offensive series. Detach your rubber slowly, otherwise they say it may loose splinters of wood. (But this never happened to me). Reviewed by seguso on February 03, 2012
	Stiga Offensive Classic (OC) this blade is good for looping because of the flex. it works well with very hard rubbers such as dhs hurricane 3, due to the flex. with a fast rubber like a tensor, this blade is great for close-to-table looping. for mid distance-looping, or if you use slower rubbers, you should prefer the offensive CR, which is identical but with a much harder and faster outer wood layer. Reviewed by seguso on February 03, 2012
	Stiga Offensive CR WRB This is a great blade. Fast, very flexible, very hard blade with great touch. The flexibility gives it a lot of catapult and gears; the hardness makes it a fast and low-throw blade. Speed: it is fast like a fast carbon blade (off+, for example dawei wavestone), but with a LOT more flex. If you have a fast rubber such as XIOM vega pro or other tensor, you will not need to smash, you can finish the point with a loop. Compared to stiga offensive classic, this blade is MUCH faster, has a much lower throw, and is less spinny. This blade is for mid distance looping, whereas offensive classic is for close-to-table looping (with tensor rubbers). Wang Liqin used to play with this blade when he was number 1. (but he changed the handle to make it look like a DHS blade) The wrb handle is hollow, making the blade feel heavier, even though it is lighter. It is heavy: it weights 89 grams, which is puzzling since the blade is very thin (5.4 mms). Works very well with any rubber, even very hard rubbers like Hurricane 3, because the flexibility produces a lot of dwell time. If used with a fast rubber like vega pro, the blade is very fast and low throw, opening loops are very difficult. In this case, this is only usable by very good players. Reviewed by seguso on February 03, 2012

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