SuperCPen -- designed for RPB

 

well, you didn't write a review.. and you didn't write a "criticism" that has any risk of being taken seriously.. so let's move on.

 

i did try to answer your questions.. see my earlier reply about short ball and wrist bending.

 

 

 

 

addoydude wrote:   well, you didn't write a review.. and you didn't write a "criticism" that has any risk of being taken seriously.. so let's move on.   i did try to answer your questions.. see my earlier reply about short ball and wrist bending.

 

Edited by SuperCPen - 04/27/2011 at 3:36am

You are welcome.  I really want to update my website with more info -- many good ideas were suggested here, a FAQ for example.  I hope to be able to spend some time doing that if my day job don't keep me at the office all the time

Thanks to The Robot99, sweetstrike, and addoydue for all the concise answers.  If I may add, the handle also facilitate a very secure grip, even when held fully relexed, the blade would not fly out of your hand without needing the "long tail" that was mentioned

 

For fore information on our funny looking blade, check out www.SuperCPen.com.

 

 

I was looking for a more general way to say that, because there are many ways to do a swiping motion around the elbow, and only in one case is the swiping plane coplanar with the blade face.  and i think this is not the root characteristic but just a consequence. btw, it is also possible to swing the blade face of a regular Cpen coplanar with the swiping motion -- but you need to bend your wrist to do this.

 

Yes it was confusing the way I said it. :) First there are infinite normal vectors to a surface, and second it is not clear where is the plane of rotation for an irregular object like a hand.  If you have a sphere rotating about its axis, then the plane of rotation is conventionally the plane of the equator. any plane parallel to the equatorial plane would also be a plane of rotation. basically a plane of rotation is a plane of which the axis of rotation is a normal vector. btw, when i say rotation of the hand, i'm really saying rotation of the wrist, i.e., the rotation axis is the elbow-wrist line.

 

so a better way to say it is probably:

 

wide so that in the natural grip you can find a normal vector to the surface of the blade and a plane of rotation of the hand, such that the former lies in the latter.

 

or another way to say it:

 

wide so that in the natural grip you can find a normal vector to the surface of the blade that is perpendicular to the elbow-wrist axis.

 

the consequences of this are:

- you can swing the blade face like a door around the elbow-wrist axis, without wrist flexion or extension

- you can swing the blade with a swiping motion of the forearm about the elbow such that the blade face is coplanar with the swiping motion, without wrist flexion or extension

- you use minimal or no wrist bending to control the blade face angle

- you use minimal or no finger pressure adjustment to control the blade face angle (in the offensive grip)

 

of course if you use the control grip (for short balls or traditional backhand) then all bets are off, you will need wrist flexion and extension and finger manipulation just like regular Cpen. :)

 

 

 

 

Recently, I've been playing 100% of the time with the SuperCPen (size S) that Dai redid for me.

Also, I think my thumbgrip blade was a little too fast for me. 

The Amultart is faster than the Innerforce ZLC, which has better control.

This is part of the reason why I have retired my thumbgrip SuperCPen permanently.

Sandiway

 

I would concur with your observation here.  Recently I have been playing with a regular CPen for two reasons.  One I wanted to try out a different and rather expensive blade, so I didn't want to modify it in case I need to sell it.  Two I wanted to see if I can figure out just what is the relative merit of the regular CPen vs my SuperCPen blade.  And shortly after I started with it, I felt strain in my wrist, especially after I tried to RPB block ball to my back/fore hand switching point.  And when one day I tried to push myself up from a chair (grabing the edge with palm down), it cause a huge pain in my wrist and I could not do RPB for days.  This went on for weeks now, but is getting better.  So yes, it appears the SuperCPen blade does produce different stress on the hand than the regular CPen.