When to know to upgrade to composite

Hello aquaman:

Are you by any chance willing to sell your sardius or else perhaps trade for some other blade of equivalent value.

Thanks, and I hope to hear from you.

Sammai

Pioneer wrote: When you want to accelerate your game with a compromised control ...

Unless you pick a very fast blade like T4, you will see no big difference switching from a stiff 7 ply blade to carbon.

My answer would be: if you can answer that question yourself.

Record a video of yourself playing. Count the mistakes you make. If your service returns, the opening topspins and the blocking/counter topspinning is without a lot of mistakes, upgrade to a composite blade.

You know, when you have been playing composite for a couple of years then play an all wood blade and it feels like a your game just went down a couple of notches. All wood is ok for some but when you experience that solid sweet spot and refined feel it's hard to go back.

debraj wrote: such  a silly question!!! based on your question...  the overwhelming number of pro players playing wood blades haven't reached that level. or what???  i am surprised so many people even answered!!

Agree w Debraj. It presumes that a composite blade is an upgrade. That is arguable, to say the least : )

That aside, if you want to experiment with composite blades my advice is to try Galaxy or some other descent quality cheap vendor. Try it out, won't be expensive to test. Don't but a $200 blade right away because you may be surprised at what you discover. The two most expensive blades I have ever bought were carbons, and I came to hate them with such passion, that I gave them away for free and swore never to buy a carbon blade again. Since I play near the table I care more about spin and high throw so I can brush lift them pesky chops, and fast carbon blades are the worst choice for that. Same rubber has no spin and very low throw when I put it on the carbon. You don't want to get that experience after shelling some of the nicest 200 you have : )

frogger wrote: mon22 wrote: its mad numb though frogger... cant feel anything                                                   You need to experience some of the new generation carbon composite blades. These are not what your grandfather played with at all. New tech materials with feeling.

seguso wrote: frogger wrote: You need to experience some of the new generation carbon composite blades. These are not what your grandfather played with at all. New tech materials with feeling. for example...?

The problem I have with carbon and balsa blades (also hard outer compared to soft inner) is that I loose feeling once I start playing with such blades. First time I use such blades I still have the feeling  from playing with the ususal type of blade for a longer period. I,m borrowing the feeling from the period I used a woodblade and the carbon works great. I enjoy the stabillity, ease for some strokes that would go wild with a less stable blade aso. Great....but then I start loosing feeling for the game in general. Less feedback works out the same as if I would limit my hours of play significantly. After a while I end up  having just as much feel as the blade has which is much less. My whole game and even technicque start to deteriorate slowly week after week. Getting back to a woodblade with bad form and feeling the woodblade also doesn,t work well anymore. Maybe with a lot higher amount of traininghours a week this is different, could be.



Edited by mercuur - 06/06/2011 at 6:23pm