Extra 7 or Offensive 40 ?

they are very similar but extra 7 feels stiffer. both are 7 plys and both are quite powerful for having such good feeling. the feel of offensive 40 is softer and i think the bounce feels a bit quicker and faster.

i think control based on amount of vibration depends on the person.  i never tried the offensive 40, but i have both ma lin carbon and extra 7.  to me, extra 7 almost has no vibration compared to ma lin carbon, but i play better with ma lin carbon probably because i'm more used to it.  personally i like the way how extra 7 feels:  solid, but i'm more used to ma lin carbon, that's why i'm sticking with mlc.  another thing i really don't get is why the blade thickness matters...  i can understand if it's a 1-ply wood with 1mm difference means a decent amt in the speed and feel, but i don't think thickness plays too much into effect with multi-ply blades with less than half mm thickness difference.  my extra 7 is 6.3mm, while my mlc is around 5.8mm, but i don't think anyone would say that mlc is a worse blade than extra 7 just cuz it's thinner.
i don't know how offensive 40 plays, but i believe extra 7 is a very strong candidate:  solid, powerful, and great feel.

so 6.3 mm is considered thin?  and i believe that any blades unfortunate enough to get hit the right way against a table would all lose to the table.  i still don't think blade's thickness has much to do with vibration, i'd say it's the material based on each individual blade, and maybe the weight, my friend's tbs which is thinner than my mlc, gives virtually no vibration.  and i've tried 2 friends' yasaka extras, one was negligibly thicker yet lighter than the other, they feel almost exactly the same, but if i was nit-picking, the thicker/lighter one vibrated just a hair more.

i think a lotta yasaka users including myself are happy with their blades, so i'd guess yasaka doesn't.  i've actually measured my blades and got the numbers, i'm guessing stavros read the info off of paddlepalace which i've found not to give very accurate info at least regarding the blade thickness.  my mlc is in the 5.8-5.9 range, not 5.6 as mentioned on that website, and my e7 is 6.3-6.4 range, not 5.8 as mentioned on that website

no inconvenience caused, this is a forum, people discuss stuff, that's what makes forums interesting.  as you can see from my sig, i like yasaka blades, so i tend to defend it a lot =P.  i've never played with clipper before, but i do understand that it is a great blade as i've heard a lotta positive comments and no negative comments about it.
one thing to consider for the buyer:  e7 is a heavy weight, off40 is a medium weight.

just get the max wood

balsa+ is quite fast and stable for being an balsa blade..dynamix is much faster but balsa+ is much lighter. absolutely one of the best balsa blades the feeling is soft, just like all balsas but the harder wood layers in the blade makes it also stable and powerful.

Extra 7:

loopy wrote: I just got an OFF40 and will be trying it tonight. I'll post my opinion after 9:30 est.