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    Posted: 12/23/2007 at 1:47pm

I finally got a chance to play with my new Tibhar Samsonov Alpha (Rapid 2.0/Rapid 2.0) yesterday.  What a great feeling bat!  It�s very light and quick in the hand.  It�s a little slower, but has more control and feeling than my old Stiga Hans Alser (Mark V max/Mark V max) and I�m able to play soft or hard with better confidence/accuracy.   I didn�t get to play with it as much as I liked as my son also wanted to try it out.  He was playing so much better with it, and we were having longer and faster rallies, I decided to let him keep using it the interest of hitting balls, not chasing balls!  The good news is I have a second Samsonov Alpha I can build up for him so we can both use them.  I do want to try my Alser with Mark V 2.0 sometime to see if that helps improve its control/feeling, and of course I've yet to use the Samsonov in a tournament, but for now I�m a Tibhar man!
Blade: Tibhar Samsonov Alpha
FH: Rapid 2.0
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Blade: Stiga Hans Alser - 1983
FH: Yasaka Mark V Max
BH: Yasaka Mark V Max
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i also feel it is a great blade,

   if you like that try the Korbel, slightly less feel, but a bit faster
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Originally posted by asr1990 asr1990 wrote:

i also feel it is a great blade,

   if you like that try the Korbel, slightly less feel, but a bit faster
Ok thanks for the tip.  I'm not sure I want anything faster right now, but maybe in the future.  I've yet to try an Butterfly blades, but I haven't been all that impressed with their rubbers in the past.  Good when new, but they don't seem to last very long in my experience.
 
Blade: Tibhar Samsonov Alpha
FH: Rapid 2.0
BH: Rapid 2.0

Blade: Stiga Hans Alser - 1983
FH: Yasaka Mark V Max
BH: Yasaka Mark V Max
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i think with any blade, you'll get more control going from max rubber to 2.0...
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Originally posted by Trebor Renkluaf Trebor Renkluaf wrote:

Originally posted by asr1990 asr1990 wrote:

i also feel it is a great blade,

   if you like that try the Korbel, slightly less feel, but a bit faster
Ok thanks for the tip.  I'm not sure I want anything faster right now, but maybe in the future.  I've yet to try an Butterfly blades, but I haven't been all that impressed with their rubbers in the past.  Good when new, but they don't seem to last very long in my experience.
 
  its not much faster, its defintely worth a try
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Good to hear.  I would like to try your Rapid rubber sometime, to see how different it is from my Rapid DTecS.
 
 
Blade: Stiga Allround Classic
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Originally posted by Aquaman Aquaman wrote:

Good to hear.  I would like to try your Rapid rubber sometime, to see how different it is from my Rapid DTecS.
 
 
Ok, we can trade bats again. Wink
 
Blade: Tibhar Samsonov Alpha
FH: Rapid 2.0
BH: Rapid 2.0

Blade: Stiga Hans Alser - 1983
FH: Yasaka Mark V Max
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