Stiga Offensive Classic NCT: Is it BETTER?

It is excellent blade with great soft medium feeling. I played offensive NCT with Tenergy 05 (from ThaiLe). It is fast combo, but I did not see any lost of control. The only thing (which I don't like) is that the blade is headheavy (which is normal for any stiga blade).

Hi Tommy. My Allround NCT has 74g. With 2 x Tenergy 05 1.9mm it is still playable for me. I played that for a while. Recently i've changed my FH-rubber to Express One 1.8mm, because i wanted to have something better for killing, hitting, smashing. I need that for my game. Tenergy 05 is more demanding on technique, more sensible to incoming spin and less forgiving in direct (frontal) ball contacts, so driving and hitting was not that safe with Tenergy 05.

Allround NCT is quite stiff for a pure wood without carbon, arylate, etc. You can compare it with Samsonov Alpha: about the same stiffness, a tad less speed, a better touch, and more head heavy of course. I wouldn't say it performs magic, but it has no weaknesses and does pretty everything decent. Moreover, due to its stiffness, it works together with Tensors, which is an important point for me. For example YE and OC did not work with Tensors for me. Nevertheless, it gives a lively "natural" feel.

I've received a bunch of emails about this blade. It seems there are many players around the world swearing by it. I can't resist . . . I just ordered a couple handpicked beauties from one of my secret sources. I'll let you guys know my impressions. I'll have the blade in a couple days.

Anyone else have experience with these new blades?

You will love it. It does not have the hard feel like Stiga Offensive, but it has most of the characters of Stiga Offensive. The feeling of the blade is not only soft medium but also solid for hitting. The dwell time is great for looping.

Do you think hard chinese rubbers could suit that blade like OC do? Or this one is more for european/japanese ones.

This blade is good.I've been playing with it for 6 months and I like it.I think light rubbers fit very well on this blade.

Klaus123 wrote: Allround NCT is quite stiff for a pure wood without carbon, arylate, etc. I wouldn't say it performs magic, but it has no weaknesses and does pretty everything decent. Moreover, due to its stiffness, it works together with Tensors, which is an important point for me. For example YE and OC did not work with Tensors for me. Nevertheless, it gives a lively "natural" feel.

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I have & am having the same experience. I LOVE this blade; maybe just a little more than you Klaus123.
I would say it almost performs magic and does everything pretty damn well & has SUPERB touch!
I think you have assessed the blade very accurately.

I have noticed though that, if one hits a real shank, the blade will vibrate with great vigor. Never had another blade produce such pronounced feedback when excecuting a crap stroke/shot.
This VERY minor "anomaly" aside I am purchasing another.

XxbOOmxX wrote: Are you guys talking about this blade?   http://www.paddlepalace.com/Offensive-NCT/productinfo/SSNOFN/   Could anyone compare this blade to the Samsonov Alpha? I'm down grading to a wood blade and will be trying the Alpha this week. But I was interested in the Offensive NCT.   thanks

Yes, that's the one.

Offensive NCT is more powerful than Samsonov Alpha and the control is pretty much the same.  However, NCT seems to be slightly head heavy and vibrate more than Samsonov Alpha.  Another issue I had with Samsonov Alpha is its bulky handle due to my small hand.  NCT is a good blade indeed.

I'm also VERY interested in this blade. I'm just waiting to recieve my OC CR with legend handle to try and figure out which handle suits me best then I will order one

Allround NCT is a very good blade.

cotdt wrote: loop+loop wrote: Hello Tommy   Any update? So is the NCT version better than the normal OC CR? The NCT version is a lot faster than the normal Offensive Classic. Even the Allaround NCT is faster than the Offensive Classic. The Allaround NCT is actually as fast as your typical 5-ply blade that gets an "OFF" rating.

...hmmm...

Off classic is faster in hitting game than All NCT

based on the links above, Allround NCT is faster than Offensive Classic. But the anomaly is OC, not All NCT. All NCT is still ALL+, itls just that OC is really just ALL.