What do you consider a heavy blade?

Hey everyone just wondering what you guys consider to be a heavy blade at the moment my blade is 180 grams with almana and butterfly g2 on a petr korbel would you consider this heavy.

Yes! My TBS+2xT05 is 181 grams.   I am getting over the initial shock but I still think it is heavy. I am looking for lighter options but will stick with what I have until I find something that is much better. If the pros can use my kit then the paddle is good and any fault lies with me.

Maybe to 100g it is light,over 100g it`s heavy.

It has by now became a general consensus here in Russia, amongst many experienced coaches, that complete racket setups (shakehands) both being under 165gr and over 180gr would feel equally UNCONFORTABLE to play with, regardless of player's physical stature and body weigh.

pnachtwey wrote: Yes! My TBS+2xT05 is 181 grams.   I am getting over the initial shock but I still think it is heavy. I am looking for lighter options but will stick with what I have until I find something that is much better. If the pros can use my kit then the paddle is good and any fault lies with me.

 

For me, a heavy blade weights more than 95 g.
I am used to play with heavy setups, and the fact is, that I LOVE heavy blades LOL.
My ALC is 92 grams :)

A blade is heavy, if it is over 95 grams and a bat gets heavy if it's over 188 grams; as you start to notice it's weight.

89-94 grams is a good weight for a looping blade, like the Petr Korbel.

It depends what you are used to. I prefer balanced bats around 175-186 grams.

I took out my Schlager Carbon this evening to play with (I love playing with this blade for fun). This is about the first time in a year. I weighed it and I was totally blown away, 96.5 grams (HEAVY). I slapped on an old sheet of Stiga Boost TC FH, and an old sheet of F3 Big Slam BH (both 2.0mm) and the weight was 172 grams. I had an amazing evening of table tennis with it.

I guess my point is you can get away with a heavy blade depending on what rubber combinations you are going to use. Very similar to a race car, you have to continually tweek till you achieve optimal performance.

Also being an EJ is not such a bad thing after years of trying new stuff you begin to get a sense of what rubbers (dynamics) will go with what blade (speed, hard/soft, material and weight).

alright thanks guys. also does table tennis grip tape make the weight of the blade grow by a lot or does it affect it very little? i need it so then my korbel will have the "right" handle size for me.^_^

alright thanks so would you say that it will make a petr korble blade with almana 2.0 and sriver g2 1.7 become more balanced?

I have blades 75 to 100 grams. A 75 weighs .42 oz. less than a 100 gram blade.I think it matters more on the weigh of the rubbers. I think 100 grams or more is getting heavy. If you weight train a little or paddles feel light.

i considered my 96 gms acoustic st as heavy didn't feel heavy though.

igorponger wrote: It has by now became a general consensus here in Russia, amongst many experienced coaches, that complete racket setups (shakehands) both being under 165gr and over 180gr would feel equally UNCONFORTABLE to play with, regardless of player's physical stature and body weigh. Hence I am mightly happy with my current setup being something like a "Golden Weight", that 175 gr. PS: My special 'thank you' to our resident-forumer Mr.Silvalis for maintaining an utterly useful database http://mass.doingitwrong.net that I used to consult everytime before my shopping for a new piece of rubber sheet.

160-170 grams is a normal weight range

JRSDallas wrote: igorponger wrote: It has by now became a general consensus here in Russia, amongst many experienced coaches, that complete racket setups (shakehands) both being under 165gr and over 180gr would feel equally UNCONFORTABLE to play with, regardless of player's physical stature and body weigh. Hence I am mightly happy with my current setup being something like a "Golden Weight", that 175 gr. PS: My special 'thank you' to our resident-forumer Mr.Silvalis for maintaining an utterly useful database http://mass.doingitwrong.net that I used to consult everytime before my shopping for a new piece of rubber sheet.     This is the most important point made in this thread and my own experience agrees with it.  I find my quickness on the table really gets degraded when the racket total weight gets above 180 gm.   However, I like hard sponge FH and BH sponges with power and low throw typically weigh more than the soft sponge rubbers.  As a result, I have trouble getting down to 180 or the even better 178 gm.    I use an 87 gm Dawei Wavestone, Haifu BWII (FH) and on BH, I've been cycling between Haigu Shark II, Btfly BryceSpeed and BryceSpeedFX.   Its very hard to get the right balance of weight, power and feel.  Quite often my racket is 184 gm (and I used to use rubbers that put me at 194 gm).   I have found that using a weighted racket makes my playing racket feel very light but I've not been diligent about using it and testing if it does help me quicken my play.

+100

I find that 168 to 178grams are my zone..but most of my blades are 174-178 grams.  My Yasaka Extra is 88 grams with 2 PME 2.1mm 47's...and it comes out to about 183 with a handle grip wrap (butterfly wrap is about 2g).  With 12mm edge tape it was 186....and felt way to heavy and I lost my touch.  Taking off the edge tape did help a little for reducing the head heavy end of it...but still at 183g....I cant move quick enough even though it loops like a monster!  

Im going back to the slightly lighter PME max 42.5 degree on the Extra for better touch and feel.  In the mean time....I am really liking the slower Yasaka Sweden Classic with PME Max 42.5, I just wish the handle was a bit longer and thicker.  The slower blade and faster rubber seem to be a great allround setup for my game. 




Edited by Rich215 - 06/25/2010 at 10:49am