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Topic: blade design in Nexy!! - SPEAR - testers Selected
Posted By: Nexy
Subject: blade design in Nexy!! - SPEAR - testers Selected
Date Posted: 06/10/2010 at 11:18am
Dear fellow friends,
 
I think table tennis business seriously relies on how many friends you have. And now I decided to come here more often, and to share more about how I run my brand Nexy.
 
Currently, I'm not very good at English, and also not free enough to reply all the questions, but I will try as much as I can to share what I am doing with the people here.
 
So, this article can not be done in one day, and I will keep on writing day by day until I can complete the whole story of one blade; Nexy's SPEAR.
 
 
 
1. What's the goal of SPEAR
 
Table tennis has been my number one job for many decades.
I started it when I was 10 from my father, and I really liked it.
But my father did not enjoy much playing with little son, because it took money and time.
At that time, my house was not rich enough to support my curiosity, and I could not keep on attending piano lesson, and probably my father could not be able to take me to table tennis gym often.
 
But he was really good player, and I could learn some basic skills from my father.
 
It took more than 10 years for me to become better player than my father since that time.
He promised to buy one bicycle for me, and I wanted it badly, but could not win any game until I become a university student.
 
Any way, I became a student, and I joined table tennis club there.
And there I had to change all things, because all the basic skills was not right.
It was not easy process, but I went through it.
I once tried to become a defensive player, and I could get chances to test many kinds of blades and rubbers.
 
Probably, this story will not be interesting for you. But I just want to say that those blades are not short term work.
 
Conclusionally, even though I'm not a professional player, nor a professional carpenter or something, but I can safely say that I've been crazy about table tennis for very long time.
 
In 2005, when I started to run table tennis business, I found out that some day I will run my own brand.
I was quite sure it's not only about money and tradition.
Once I'm sure I can satisfy with what I make, then I can satisfy many others, and that will lead my brand successful, that was what I could be sure at that moment.
 
And I started to learn many blades' structure and fuction.
It was not very hard, because I really liked it.
 
So, all the blades made in Nexy are meant to satisfy me.
I don't care about category.
5-pl, 7-ply, carbon, arylate carbon....new products in each year...
...that's very far from the way I run this business.
 
Once I start, I never stop before I'm satisfied.
So, most of the blades are alike in some ways.
 
Fast, Spinny, well balanced, good feeling.
Maybe it sounds very cliche, but surely these are the puropose for my blades.
 
Seemingly (more over meaninglessly) too much ideal is what I'm struggling to get with my blades.
And I don't think that's not possible to achieve.
 
Of course there is a general course I experience whenever I produce blades.
I really liked it, but after 6 months, I found out better one will be possible.
And the best blade becomes less perfect, and it gives its way to the next new blade.
But at any cost, I release a blade when I really like it at that moment.
 
 
Therefore, the purpose of the up-coming new blade SPEAR is very the same as other Nexy blades.
 
Fast, Spinny, well balanced, good feeling
 
 
 
 
2. Basic Idea about SPEAR
 
If you look at my before blades, you will know that I've been recently focusing on SPRUCE, which lies under the surface wood.
I used spruce for Dexter ( http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=580 - http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=580  )
and Color ( http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=582 - http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=582  )
 
This wood is very attractive. With this wood, you can create better speed without losing wooden feeling to carbon layer.
And this spruce ply makes big sound and good feeling when you hit the ball.
 
But when this ply comes too much close to the rubber, than the sound and feelings are too much powerful, and the ball will not be spinny much.
 
So, this material needs to come in the right place, which means that I need to find the ideal thickness for the surface wood.
 
It's not possible to decide exact thickness for all the surface materials.
I kept on testing....and I found out Japanese Hinoki needs to be thicker than Limba or Koto, when I want to hamonize this with Spruce.
 
Any ways, the first idea has come from this spruce wood.
 
Actually, I finished all the studies related with this material, from my experiences of Hurricane King, Offensive classic, Ebenholz and several other blades.
 
But then again, I thought why all those blades are not similiar to Stiga's clipper CR or Butterfly's Korbel or SK7?
I think most other designers were facinated too much by this sprus material's lightness and speed.
So, they might not be interested in producing a blade deep and soft. Probably they thought they need to make the blades light and fast.
 
So, there I started to think about this blade SPEAR.
 
When you use a SPEAR, the blade of SPEAR should go through a target, to harm.
Likewise, when I name thie blade as SPEAR, I thought that....when you play with this blade SPEAR, you need to be able to feel that the ball goes through your blade, just like a spear goes through a target.
I mean you need to feel that your blade hugs the ball so deep into it, that you think the ball becomes a spear into a target.
 
I thought it's possible.
Because all this deep and soft feeling can not be too much, when I harmnize this with SPRUCE's lightness and speedy character.
There maybe I can get an ideal fuction.
 
Ok, that was the basic idea I started from.
 
 
I will write more tomorrow.
 
Just keep on waiting before I finish this story.
I hope you can enjoy my writings.
 
 
 


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Replies:
Posted By: geotjakra
Date Posted: 06/10/2010 at 11:42am
thanks Nexy, it's intersting to get a first point of view straight from the designer of the blade. And I probably will appreciate a blade more, when I hear/read and understand it's origin from idea/concept to it's finished product as well as understanding why that blade is named "spear". please continue with the story. Your English is more than sufficient to get your point across. LOL


Posted By: Rich215
Date Posted: 06/10/2010 at 1:05pm
Nexy,  is the Spear going to be only little slower than Color but Spear will have more dwell feeling?   



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Posted By: Jolan
Date Posted: 06/10/2010 at 1:13pm
This topic might become a classic...Thank you Nexy for taking time to share such valuable info with us. So now you revealed spruce was middle layer, what will be outer and central plies made of ?

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Posted By: JimT
Date Posted: 06/10/2010 at 3:42pm
Originally posted by Rich215 Rich215 wrote:

Nexy,  is the Spear going to be only little slower than Color but Spear will have more dwell feeling?   



I understood it that Spear is going to be more offensive than Color... ??


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Posted By: mmerkel
Date Posted: 06/10/2010 at 8:53pm
This really sets the background well. I am really looking forward to the rest of the story behind SPEAR. Of course the EJ in me can hardly wait to see when and where I can get my mitts on it.....but I try to be patient and wait until you have told the whole story   

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Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 06/10/2010 at 8:54pm
This is so exciting!!! I can't wait to try the Spear.

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 7:09am
Originally posted by Rich215 Rich215 wrote:

Nexy,  is the Spear going to be only little slower than Color but Spear will have more dwell feeling?   

It's not easy to answer.
 
Actually, Color was also designed to attain the same goal as I did for SPEAR.
But if I compare those two blades, when a blade has a Japanese Hinoki on the surface, it has to be more expensive, and also the feeling is quite different.
 
Normally, Hinoki feels that it makes the ball stick to it, when you make a spin. So the feeling is like when you cut something in the air with fast chopping.
 
But Limba material feels to embrace the ball deep.
I absorbs the ball into itself.
I tried to maxmise that feeling with SPEAR.
 
So, conclusionally, both of them are aiming for the maximum spin but the way of making big spin will be different.
Normally, Hinoki surface is good when your swing speed is very fast and short, but Limba is the opposite...generally.
 
(This is only persnal feeling, and I think there could be some other opinion on this topic.)


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 7:12am
I found out that if I want to describe the process how I develop SPEAR, then I need to explain some more about other Nexy blades.
 
I really want to go through all the details...
 
Just wait a little.
I will manage some time more, my friends....


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 10:59am
------ Second article ----------------------------------------------------------
 
I will keep writing more about SPEAR.
 
 
3. Composition.
 
 I found out some people are trying to guess out the whole materials of my blades. I can safely open all the materials for some blades, but for some other blades, I don't want to tell.
For examples, I use some specific wood for Oscar and Hannibal's center wood. And this wood makes my blades different from other similiar blades.
 
If you tested, then you would agree that my Hannibal and Oscar are not very dull at all, even though they have artificial materials.
So, I heard that many people are saying that my Hannibal and Oscar feels very natural, and have good feelings, without metal touch.
 
I think the main reason lies on that center wood.
Any ways, I don't want to reveal that wood.
 
By the way, regarding my next product SPEAR, the composition is very simple.
It's as below.
 
Limba - sprus - ayous - sprus - Limba
 
This is very the same structure with other several kinds of classical blades. 
But that's not all.
 
I have known that this composition creates really good blade.
But as I told you in the before writing, the material SPRUS is very very important factor to decide the whole character of a blade.
And I could not be satisfied with all other similiar kinds.
There must be some more to this composition.
 
So, that was to make use of Sprus' speed jointed with thick center layer of Ayous and thin Limba.
 
Here is the principle.
 
Regarding Ayous, this material is very soft in the first touch, but deep inside, very hard and resilient. 
But this material is not easy to be well harmonised with other materials.
When this ayous is thin, I found out some times it does not affect on the blade enough, so you don't feel the difference.
And I was sure that I need to make the Ayous thicker than other blades, by which I can make people feel soft and even damp on the moment the ball goes into, but in the end they need to find tru power and resilience deep inside the blade.
 
So, that's how I use this Ayous with my blade COLOR and now with SPEAR.
 
Regarding Limba, I found out when I make the limba ply thick, as I did with my Hinoki ply, then the feeling will be too much soft, and I can not utilize the true good factor of sprus material. Sprus needs to affect on the ball in some ways directly, not only through Limba, indirectly.
 
So, I used very thin Limba.
 
After all, Spear is a mixture of very delicate and subtle harmony.
 
Surface - soft and embracing material, Limba...but thin...so the ball is affected also by the second ply, which is fast and hard Sprus.
 
And then, the Sprus is supported by soft and damp, but powerful and resilient material, thick ayous.
 
It was not easy to prove that my belief was really right.
I had to do lots of tests for long times, over and over again.
And I could come closer to what I wanted little by little.
 
There was one more factor I need to consider.
The total thickness of the blade.
If the blade is too thick, then all the good things does not attract much any more.
So, I had to make it not much thick, which influenced all the ply's thickness in each tests.
 
And the final sample is around 6.5mm, which comes between Color and Dexter.
 
 
During this process, I tried several different compositions.
Here is one picture that shows that I tried two sprus plies between Limba and Ayous.
 
 
 
 
 
 
And here is the final version.
As you know, the structure is kinda classic.
But the center layer seems thicker than most other similiar kinds.
And also the thickness of sprus is very key factor in Spear.
 
Limba is thinner than most other Nexy blades' surface, which make the ball goes deep.
 
 
 
The edge looks not nice.
Because I tested the blade after cutting little by little.
The size of the blade is also very much responsible for the feeling.
It's not only about balance, but also about feeling and power.
 
When I cut 1mm, the blade becomes totally different.
I tested the blade by 0.5mm cut for several times.
 
 
Here is the picture of several samples I went through.
 
 
 
Here is the final sample.
 
 


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Posted By: BH-Man
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 11:12am
I went to the SeongNam Open Tourney in the South part of Seoul a week ago and I saw a number of opposing club members wearing Nexy gear and a couple playing matches with Nexy blades. That tourney must have had almost a thousand people in the sports hall.

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Posted By: JimT
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 11:55am
Originally posted by Nexy Nexy wrote:

 
(Oh, but I can not attach pictures here. What's the problem? When I clicked the shape of camera icon to insert images, here I found this sentence in the pop up page;  error, only members with sufficient permission can access this page.  Is it because of my lap top, or of my membership? I will test and update this later again.)
 
 
Error
Only members with sufficient permission can access this page.
 
 


My guess would be your picture file was too large - make it 200 K or below.

If you would like, email me the pictures and I will take care of it. Thanks.


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Posted By: JimT
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 12:03pm
By the way, is there a plan by any chance for the third Nexy testing for Spear and Lissom? Sign me up, fatt!


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Posted By: mmerkel
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 1:08pm
ditto..

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Posted By: Rich215
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 1:32pm
Originally posted by JimT JimT wrote:

By the way, is there a plan by any chance for the third Nexy testing for Spear and Lissom? Sign me up, fatt!


If there is a testing plan.... I'd like to test a Spear blade if possible as well. 



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Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 2:42pm
Originally posted by BH-Man BH-Man wrote:

I went to the SeongNam Open Tourney in the South part of Seoul a week ago and I saw a number of opposing club members wearing Nexy gear and a couple playing matches with Nexy blades. That tourney must have had almost a thousand people in the sports hall.


THE NEXY BALL: IT IS STARTING TO ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Posted By: thethinker
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 3:29pm
Nexy's blades are very creative and different. I hope to hear more about them.


Posted By: debraj
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 4:58pm
NEXY : How about some comments from a critique? someone who is not a great fan of nexy or any other individual business manufactured blade...

- someone who feels butterfly, YinHe, Nittaku, DHS and other large volume brands can afford to invest larger in systematic r&d than passionate individuals like you or charli

- someone who feels these companies have better muscle to fight restrictive trade practices like embargo on exporting japanese hinoki outside japanese companies

- someone who thinks these companies have a wider sampling among pro players to get feedback from larger dataset

- someone who believes the volume companies like sunflex and yinhe while making blades for big brands can actually replicate the formula and twist slightly to call their product.

- lastly someone who believes the volume helps these companies to introduce newer materials like zylon etc., as the suppliers of these may not retail these (or in reasonable price point) without OEM volume orders.

yes its me... the advoate in devilology.

...and i have very pro-institution framework of mind, that doesn't do justice to passionate blade makers. And i would like to be disproved logically, why i could be wrong:) , if you find time to adrress this.


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Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 5:04pm
Originally posted by debraj debraj wrote:

And i would like to be disproved logically, why i could be wrong:) , if you find time to adrress this.
you spelled address wrong.Sleepy

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Posted By: Jolan
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 5:30pm
Originally posted by debraj debraj wrote:

NEXY : How about some comments from a critique? someone who is not a great fan of nexy or any other individual business manufactured blade...

- someone who feels butterfly, YinHe, Nittaku, DHS and other large volume brands can afford to invest larger in systematic r&d than passionate individuals like you or charli

- someone who feels these companies have better muscle to fight restrictive trade practices like embargo on exporting japanese hinoki outside japanese companies

- someone who thinks these companies have a wider sampling among pro players to get feedback from larger dataset

- someone who believes the volume companies like sunflex and yinhe while making blades for big brands can actually replicate the formula and twist slightly to call their product.

- lastly someone who believes the volume helps these companies to introduce newer materials like zylon etc., as the suppliers of these may not retail these (or in reasonable price point) without OEM volume orders.

yes its me... the advoate in devilology.

...and i have very pro-institution framework of mind, that doesn't do justice to passionate blade makers. And i would like to be disproved logically, why i could be wrong:) , if you find time to adrress this.
Very good points you have raised my friend. However, why not seing small AND big are beautiful. Why shall we play one against another. Nexy takes the time to see where others have been wrong while big  brands open new fronteers with their huge R&d dept and vice et versa. There is room for everybody. I praise Nexy because he has proven he was in the good tracks with Oscar and Color. But he himself recognizes he wouldn't have been anywhere without testing all the good oldies from BTY and Nittaku first.

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Posted By: AllezCho
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 8:31pm
Thanks Nexy for the preview of your new blade Spear! Reading the reviews from your previous blade testing threads, your Hinoki-blades are very special and unique. I've seen some of the pictures, and man they are very beautiful and of high quality! This new blade with Limba and Spruce sounds very interesting and knowing your previous works of art, I won't be surprised if this comes out as a very special blade also. I look forward to reading more of your articles!

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Posted By: Blade
Date Posted: 06/11/2010 at 11:54pm
Nexy,

I go by the forum name Blade, because I too like you make custom Table tennis blades, but more as a hobbyist. I would estimate that over about a three year period I put out about a hundred, blades to local players. Unlike you , do to my family/time constraints, I have been unable to produce much lately. I do know quite a bit about different wood characteristics and gluing techniques.

If you are interested in having me test one of your blades I can give a detailed review at several levels.Since I am not seriously in the blade making business I won't be trying to find fault. I have palyed with many factory and custom blades for the past 20 years. In fact Charlie at BBC is a personal friend and has made me custom blades from time to time. His efforts and success got me interested in making blades myself and we often compare blades and ideas.

From what I've seen your blades look top notch. Keep up the good work!

Blade


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 12:42am
Originally posted by jcdi jcdi wrote:

Originally posted by debraj debraj wrote:

NEXY : How about some comments from a critique? someone who is not a great fan of nexy or any other individual business manufactured blade...

- someone who feels butterfly, YinHe, Nittaku, DHS and other large volume brands can afford to invest larger in systematic r&d than passionate individuals like you or charli

- someone who feels these companies have better muscle to fight restrictive trade practices like embargo on exporting japanese hinoki outside japanese companies

- someone who thinks these companies have a wider sampling among pro players to get feedback from larger dataset

- someone who believes the volume companies like sunflex and yinhe while making blades for big brands can actually replicate the formula and twist slightly to call their product.

- lastly someone who believes the volume helps these companies to introduce newer materials like zylon etc., as the suppliers of these may not retail these (or in reasonable price point) without OEM volume orders.

yes its me... the advoate in devilology.

...and i have very pro-institution framework of mind, that doesn't do justice to passionate blade makers. And i would like to be disproved logically, why i could be wrong:) , if you find time to adrress this.
Very good points you have raised my friend. However, why not seing small AND big are beautiful. Why shall we play one against another. Nexy takes the time to see where others have been wrong while big  brands open new fronteers with their huge R&d dept and vice et versa. There is room for everybody. I praise Nexy because he has proven he was in the good tracks with Oscar and Color. But he himself recognizes he wouldn't have been anywhere without testing all the good oldies from BTY and Nittaku first.
 
I rewrite here.
 
I think my brand NEXY is different from other brands, and you will know it when you keep on watching.
 
And I will prove it by products, not by writing only.
 
Thank you for the concern, and I'm sure your interest will urge me to make better product. 
 
   


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 5:01am
I wrote what I wanted to tell you in the upper article.

Thank you.


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 10:09am
I write more here.
 
 
4. Why Korea?
 
Recently, new Korean brand XIOM growed big very fast.
And I think Korean market initiated and urged XIOM to become competitive in many ways, which perhaps affected on my brand NEXY, too/
 
 
I don't want to analyze how XIOM could develop that fast, but I can safely say there could be some reasons I can tell you guys.
 
 
Korean players have been using Japanese penholder blades for many decades.
Recenlty, lots of players are not using Japanese penholder blade any more, but even for me, I used to play with that when I was young.
 
When you play with Japanese penholder blade, your main point comes from powerful top spin attack.
Normally, you know that your back hand side will not be easy to make a point, so, you normally try hard to play with your forehand side.
And once you get a chance, you need to exert your full power, because the other player could make a safe return to your deep back hand side, and in that case, it's almost impossible to move back and hit the ball.
So, when you play with Japanses penholder blade, you tend to focus on high power top spin attack.
 
Many people are not aware what is the differance between top Korean players' looping and other normal amatuer players' ones.
I did not know it also.
 
But by the time I started this business, I could make the similiar kind of top spin attack, after long years trainings, of course.
And I could be able to discern what makes the differance.
 
When you make a top-spin drive with your fast movement, and exact impact, the ball meets not only the surface of the rubber, but also the wooden plate of the blade, because the speed of the blade is that much fast.
 
In other words, if your movement of your racket is very fast when the ball meets the racket, then the ball goes deep into the wooden blade surface passing the rubber on it.
 
If you use thin and soft sponge, then you will be able to feel that in each strokes that your ball touches the wooden surface through the rubber every time.
But when the rubber is soft and thin, even the ball touches deep into the surface of the blade, still the returning ball is not very powerful.
 
But when you make a powerful shot with that exact impact with hard and thick sponge, then your opponent can not see the ball.
It flys like a rocket.
If the opponent blocks the ball, still the blade can not stand the impact of that powerful ball, and that vibration goes into the hands and wrist, making them shaking, and not able to return the ball at all.
 
That's what Korean players are doing.
Normally, many European players make that powerful shot from time to time. But Korean players are not allowed to do practice without that powerful impact.
All the Korean players are trained to do that powerful shot through out the whole match.
 
Some times, it's not good, because they can not learn tricky play.
But that has become long year tradition in Korea.
 
 
Any ways, when you are dealing with those top Korean players, all the equipment needs some more specialties.
And I've been really careful about that point.
  
I can add some more factors.
Korean market asks very high standard for all the products in many fields.
And once your have good product, then the whole market reacts very fast to it. But once your products are not perfect, it's not easy to survive at all.
 
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In conclusion, my blades had to satisfy that powerful shot from Korean professional players. And that helped me to set a right goal for my blades. 
 
 
 
If I add some more,  Korean players, more or less, play all round.
They play some times little bit away from the table like European players, and some times very close to the table like Chinese players.
 
And I have to produce a blade which is good at close to the table, and also little bit away from the table.
 
 
SPEAR has those characters.
 
It's very fast and spinny when you make a powerful shot; so powerful that the ball can touches directly onto the blade surface pushing through the rubber.
 
And it's powerful also away from the table, let alone close to the table.
 
 
In order to satisfy those three points, I studied mixture of different thickness and shapes over many samples.
And now I'm much relieved and happy to find the final answer.
 
 
 


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Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 10:12am
if your against xiom then why do you sell their stuff on your site?

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 10:38am
Originally posted by austin austin wrote:

if your against xiom then why do you sell their stuff on your site?
 
XIOM is my rivalry company.
I'm proud of that brand as a Korean, but I compete with them in Korean market. That's very natural in all the market.
But I don't think I'm against XIOM.
 
I know the desinger of XIOM blades, and we meet quite often.
We share many talks and it's very friendly relationship.
In Korea, many shops sell Nexy and Xiom together.
I hope you don't get me in the wrong way.
 
I just referred XIOM, because Korean market's chracter helped me to be competitive with my products, as it did to XIOM.
And it's really amazing, that XIOM grows this big in that short years.
 


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Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 10:41am
i see also i dont know if you read my previous post but theres an error on your website on the home page where is scrolls between two advertisments the word brand is spelled wrong. please dont take that offensivly i am only trying to help ^_^

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Posted By: Sallom89
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 10:43am
Originally posted by austin austin wrote:

if your against xiom then why do you sell their stuff on your site?


How is he against them? they are two manufacturers that sell different things, selling their blades also benefits him so why shouldn't he do it..

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Hurricane Hao III
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RPB: Omega Pro


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 10:53am
BH-Man,
 
Thank you for your comment about Nexy team.
I think now I have the most powerful Amateur team in Korea.
Our team is winning many important matches.
 
By the way, just call me when you come close to my city, Bucheon.
I will buy lunch.
 


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Brand Manager of NEXY


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 11:12am
Originally posted by austin austin wrote:

i see also i dont know if you read my previous post but theres an error on your website on the home page where is scrolls between two advertisments the word brand is spelled wrong. please dont take that offensivly i am only trying to help ^_^
 
 
I don't take your message in the bad way.
Actually, my English is not enough to run this English site, and I really need help.
I'm sure you will find many clumsy English there.
If you can help me with checking my site, I will really appreciate it.


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Posted By: BH-Man
Date Posted: 06/12/2010 at 10:49pm
Originally posted by Nexy Nexy wrote:

BH-Man,
 
Thank you for your comment about Nexy team.
I think now I have the most powerful Amateur team in Korea.
Our team is winning many important matches.
 
By the way, just call me when you come close to my city, Bucheon.
I will buy lunch.
 
 
Haha. You buy me lunch, and might be out of a LOT of Korean Won, even if it is something inexpensive (and tasty) like Kimbap.
 
I didn't know you fielded a team at that event. I saw one other foreigner, but I think I was the only non-Korean playing out of 1000 players. That tourney kinda looked like a TT version of Woodstock with every club grouping together every place open on floor mats eating and hydrating, plus constant announcing of who plays where. Heck, there were over 70 Cho (3 player round robin group) in 4 div. men event alone. Maybe I can manage a subway trip to Sosa station on the 21st (June) if you are not away on business.
 
Maybe you have your sample of the SPEAR. I have a nice reserve of my favored tensioned and allround offensive rubbers from my last shipment form Cole. Maybe you have your bat with Genius as well. I am just a 4 div. chump and won't threaten crushing you, but I look forward to a nice hit around if we can meet up.
 
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/13/2010 at 12:16am
Originally posted by BH-Man BH-Man wrote:

Originally posted by Nexy Nexy wrote:

BH-Man,
 
Thank you for your comment about Nexy team.
I think now I have the most powerful Amateur team in Korea.
Our team is winning many important matches.
 
By the way, just call me when you come close to my city, Bucheon.
I will buy lunch.
 
 
Haha. You buy me lunch, and might be out of a LOT of Korean Won, even if it is something inexpensive (and tasty) like Kimbap.
 
I didn't know you fielded a team at that event. I saw one other foreigner, but I think I was the only non-Korean playing out of 1000 players. That tourney kinda looked like a TT version of Woodstock with every club grouping together every place open on floor mats eating and hydrating, plus constant announcing of who plays where. Heck, there were over 70 Cho (3 player round robin group) in 4 div. men event alone. Maybe I can manage a subway trip to Sosa station on the 21st (June) if you are not away on business.
 
Maybe you have your sample of the SPEAR. I have a nice reserve of my favored tensioned and allround offensive rubbers from my last shipment form Cole. Maybe you have your bat with Genius as well. I am just a 4 div. chump and won't threaten crushing you, but I look forward to a nice hit around if we can meet up.
 
 
 
Yes, that's a woodstock for Korean amateur players.
But the fact is, we Koreans have that kind of woodstock almost every week around the whole year.
 
Do you know that I held the big tournament last year also?
That was the third time for me, and the title is "tak9.com game, Germany tour"
4 winners could get a chance to visit Germany for 8 days, and there we played many matches with many German clubs.
I sponsored flying tickets, and Tibhar sponsor accumodation.
 
This year, I think we will hold the 4th. in October or November, and I expect more than 1200 players will participate in.
I think you can try again there.
There are mainly 5th. division.
 
By the way, 21th is good for me.
I will stay in the office.
On what time can you come?
I think I can let you test many blades.
Lissom, Spear and also some blades not named yet.
 


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Posted By: BH-Man
Date Posted: 06/13/2010 at 9:14am
Trip to Germany? That ought to motivate me, and a thousand others. I call a city in Germany my hometown. I still know people there, but unfortunately, I didn't start playing TT until after I left Germany.
 
I look forward to trying out your equipment, meeting you, and having a hit (with a LOT of stuff). I hope I won't be too worn out from playing Sunday, my previous club wants me to come back there and hit. Once I start hitting, it is like eating american chips... Once you start, you don't stop.. until you eat all the bag.


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Posted By: Heimdallalso
Date Posted: 06/13/2010 at 9:15pm
Good Day Mr. Nexy,

I have to say, all the excitement over your Color blade (as well as the others) caught my attention!
Being a very happy XIOM Fuga (koto-spruce-ayous-spruce-koto) player, the composition of your pending SPEAR is something that interests me...
that coupled with the very nice images you've provided;
SPEAR
is intriguing.
It looks quite beautiful!

How will limba play compared to koto? (I need to do some "research"!)
As you've pointed out, other factors come into play such as the thickness of the plys, overall thickness & the shape of the head.

I've one quick question and comment.
A maker/manufacturer should at some point be able to give a general speed classification to their blades. Off+. Off, Off-, All+, All ect
Which goes back to the question already asked; is/will SPEAR be slower than Color, similar to Color or faster than Color?

& lastly, have you set a price point for this blade?

All the Best to you,

heimdallalso


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NEXY Lissom st 85g
fh/ Andro Impuls Speed max
bh/ Palio Flying Dragon 1.8


Posted By: Heimdallalso
Date Posted: 06/13/2010 at 9:18pm
I also saw a thickness spec; 6.5,
BUT don't recall seeing a weight?

Thank You again Mr. Nexy!
Thumbs%20Up


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NEXY Lissom st 85g
fh/ Andro Impuls Speed max
bh/ Palio Flying Dragon 1.8


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/13/2010 at 10:13pm
Originally posted by Heimdallalso Heimdallalso wrote:

I also saw a thickness spec; 6.5,
BUT don't recall seeing a weight?

Thank You again Mr. Nexy!
Thumbs%20Up
 
Thank you for warm comments.
 
My blade is typical in many ways, and you will find it soon.
Regarding the weight, it's around 88~92g.
 
 
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/13/2010 at 10:27pm
Originally posted by Heimdallalso Heimdallalso wrote:

Good Day Mr. Nexy,

I have to say, all the excitement over your Color blade (as well as the others) caught my attention!
Being a very happy XIOM Fuga (koto-spruce-ayous-spruce-koto) player, the composition of your pending SPEAR is something that interests me...
that coupled with the very nice images you've provided;
SPEAR
is intriguing.
It looks quite beautiful!

How will limba play compared to koto? (I need to do some "research"!)
As you've pointed out, other factors come into play such as the thickness of the plys, overall thickness & the shape of the head.

I've one quick question and comment.
A maker/manufacturer should at some point be able to give a general speed classification to their blades. Off+. Off, Off-, All+, All ect
Which goes back to the question already asked; is/will SPEAR be slower than Color, similar to Color or faster than Color?

& lastly, have you set a price point for this blade?

All the Best to you,

heimdallalso
 
The Limba and Koto are extremely different.
Limba is soft, and the feeling is to hug the ball it it.
Koto is very hard, and it's like a thin metal plate.
 
So far, general belief has been that soft and embracing character must be engaged with good spin and control.
So, once we can find speedy material for the middle and center layers, then it would be good combination.
 
Therefore hard material was not interested in for long years.
 
Actually, Hinoki, Ayous, Limba, those generally accepted surface materials were all soft.
 
Any ways, KOTO became a big hit material afterwards.
It porved that general beliefe about soft surface was wrong.
Even very hard material can make good spin and control.
 
If you check, these days, lots of blades are using hard material on their surface.
And surprisingly, Long-pimple blades are also using hard material on their sufaces.
It means that big spin does not always needs soft surface.
 
Any ways, if you study more, then it's not that simple.
Surface material can feel very different when they are mixed with different middle and center layers.
So, the final result comes in only when you completed one blade.
 
Actually, for me, I can predict what will be the result before I make in some ways, but it's not easy to explain.
But you can see how I think if you follow my writings.
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 1:07am
Here goes another topic.
 
 
 
5. The second purpose of NEXY!
 
This factor might make you puzzled.
 
From this blade on, I'm planning to start a donation program.
If you buy one  SPEAR, then you are donating USD 3 for a poor children.
As a father of three children, I feel awfully sorry for those poor kids around the world, and I hope I can enlarge our donating amount of money more with my NEXY blades.
 
But with this program, I'm very much careful about many other things.
There could be some people who will think that now NEXY is bg company, so they are trying to show off. Or maybe some people will think that NEXY's margin is very big enough to spend USD 3.
 
And some people might think that NEXY is trying to make use of small donation to promote it's new blade, and that'sa shallow marketing program.
 
And also there could be some people who are not able to buy expensive blades, and hope to get lower price for good blade, and they will say, I prefer to have 3 dollors cheaper blade than to donate 3 dollors through NEXY.com.
 
I know all these thoughts quite well, and I've got severe "NO" from may others, but I decided to start it at any rate.
I've been helping some poor children on my own, and some by my company money, but with this speciall program, I can accumulate some more money, and I will use that money for more childen.
And that makes me happy now.
 
I wish nobody could accept this idea in the bad way.
I will calculate my sales exactly, and I will use the money as I promised.
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: Heimdallalso
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 1:26am
I think your contribution to those in greater need (especially children) is commendable.

you say "I wish nobody could accept this idea in the bad way."
there will always be those that don't see things the way we do... so be it
you should do as your "spirit" leads you

& I ran across (over at OOaK) these descriptions of different woods properties:
koto: Soft topspin wood, typically used in extremely thin outer plies to produce a faster and stiffer blade. Great wood for players who rely on both looping and countering techniques. Usually quartersawn for the pattern.

limba: classic European topspin wood; heavy and fast, but not springy; limba wood adds the soft feel and great control needed by today's modern topspin players
 
By what you've told me/us, this definition of KOTO is incorrect.
I am far from knowledgable but would guess you are correct. I think Koto is far closer to hard than soft.



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fh/ Andro Impuls Speed max
bh/ Palio Flying Dragon 1.8


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 2:04am
Originally posted by Heimdallalso Heimdallalso wrote:

I think your contribution to those in greater need (especially children) is commendable.

you say "I wish nobody could accept this idea in the bad way."
there will always be those that don't see things the way we do... so be it
you should do as your "spirit" leads you

& I ran across (over at OOaK) these descriptions of different woods properties:
koto: Soft topspin wood, typically used in extremely thin outer plies to produce a faster and stiffer blade. Great wood for players who rely on both looping and countering techniques. Usually quartersawn for the pattern.

limba: classic European topspin wood; heavy and fast, but not springy; limba wood adds the soft feel and great control needed by today's modern topspin players
 
By what you've told me/us, this definition of KOTO is incorrect.
I am far from knowledgable but would guess you are correct. I think Koto is far closer to hard than soft.

 
Thank you for your supporting on both things.
I will keep on running this donationa program as Nexy goes on.
 
Regarding KOTO, it's surely harder than Limba.
If some one feels it soft, probably it' due to the combination together.
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 2:43am
6. Is SPEAR the best product among NEXY blades?
 
I received a letter saying that SPEAR seems the best one.
But I can not easily agree with that idea.
 
Actually, personaly, I feel more attracted to LISSOM and OSCAR.
And other two similiar structure blades are also very valuable.
 
Ok, let me give short words or three similiar blades.
 
 
DEXTER : the fastest 5-ply blade I have ever known.
               Extremely fast.
               If you prefer to play with 5-Ply to get good control and feeling,
               but you want to have better speed, just like a carbon blade,
               then you need to experience this blade.
 
COLOR : overall fast, but good balance in all things.
              Mild, and soft feeling is in good harmony with fast character.
              In this forum, there are too much explanation,
              and you will like reading them.
              http://www.mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30446&PN=1 - http://www.mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30446&PN=1
 
 
SPEAR : Other two blades are using Japanese Hinoki on the suface,
             but this one uses Limba onto it.
             Therefore, the total purpose and chracter is not similiar at all.
             This blade is excatly the other kind.
 
 
           
So, I can not say this is the best one.
But this blade will be easy to understand for normal European or American players, because this blade is using Limba.
 
 
Ok, here I think I have explained all the things I thought when I start to write.
But you might have some more to know.
So, I will keep coming here and write back to the inquiries.
 
By the way, there are some woods I did not test to the bottom, so don't expect me to know all th answers.
But I will answer to the questions I know.
 
Thank you for reading it through.
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 3:36am
Here is the picture of SPEAR final version.
 
Have a look at that!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here you can see the logo of my donation program on the back side.
 
I hope you like the design.
 
 
 
With thanks.....


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Posted By: Facepalm
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 3:52am
**Jaw Drops**

Nice, subtle handle design and red and black spears.


Posted By: karabijntje
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 3:56am
Great Nexy, looking forward to try one of your blades, they are very attractive. Keep on going!

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* Vega Pro / Europe


Posted By: peter79
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:01am
The ST handle looks good, please post the picture from the side, so that we can see the plies Big%20smile

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H3 National Orange 40 deg 2.2
Baracuda Max
182 Gr



Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:10am
Originally posted by peter79 peter79 wrote:

The ST handle looks good, please post the picture from the side, so that we can see the plies Big%20smile
 
Ok, here goes it.
 
But as I cleared out, the basic structure is simple.
 
Limba, sprus, ayous.
 
But this blade has attained all other similiar kinds has never got before.
You will find it very clearly when you lay your hands on it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: anubhav1984
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:17am
Gosh! Now i really need to get my hands on it! That is a beauty of a blade you got there Mr Moon. I am sure it would be as good as you describe it to be!Simply AWESOMEE!! Thumbs%20Up

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FH - Undecided
BH - Undecided


Posted By: Jolan
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:20am

Ovo�dal/Waldnerisc shape. Funnily enough, Waldner Dicon, ovo�dal shape, is also Limba/spruce/ayous/spruce/limba combo. Much thinner though if I recall correctly. Looks very promising indeed.



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Posted By: Jolan
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:25am
OMG ! Never seen such thin limba outer ply. Must be 0.5mm or about. Don't you think it's gonna be too fragile ? Will it be pre-sealed ?

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Posted By: peter79
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:31am
Spear is Limba-Spruce-Ayous-Spruce-Limba

While Hking is Koto-Spruce-Ayous-Spruce-Koto

The only diff is the top ply, probably Spear is softer because the top ply is limba. Can't wait to try and compare it with Hking.


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H3 National Orange 40 deg 2.2
Baracuda Max
182 Gr



Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:33am
At home SPEAR with a forward kind of "A" mean "hope" or "wish" (like an order or a recommendation). I hope I Spear soon. Wink

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Posted By: geotjakra
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 4:47am
Mr. Nexy, I think your next blade after "Spear" should be called "MOON" Because it's so good, it's out of this world !!! Tongue


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 5:19am
Originally posted by jcdi jcdi wrote:

OMG ! Never seen such thin limba outer ply. Must be 0.5mm or about. Don't you think it's gonna be too fragile ? Will it be pre-sealed ?
 
Yes, correct. That's why this blade is unique.
 
With this blade, I went some other way from other blades' path.
 
First, I tried to make use of SPRUS not as light and fast only, but as soft and damp feeling together with two other plies.
 
Secondly, I use very think Limba, still get enough soft and embracing feeling onto it. This is another new challaenge.
 
Thirdly, thick ayous ply works in two different ways.
In one way, it's effective when it hugs the ball deep.
In the other hand, it bounce off the ball with maximum speed.
 
I thought if I add some more thickness onto the center ayous, then the effect will be bigger, but I wanted to have the total thickness less than 6.5mm, so I stopped here.
 
Anyway, I think every one will know what I intended when he plays with it.
 
 
By the way, it's not fragile at all.
I tested that also.
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 5:21am
Originally posted by geotjakra geotjakra wrote:

Mr. Nexy, I think your next blade after "Spear" should be called "MOON" Because it's so good, it's out of this world !!! Tongue
 
Thank you, geotjakra....
That's too much compliments for me.
I will do my best to satisfy you with my next blade, but I think you will be also very much attracted by Lissom.
 
I will write more about it soon.


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Posted By: johnny89atc
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 8:48am
I like the design of the blade and I am waiting for reviews as I like blades with Limba as outer ply...

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FH: Butterfly Tenergy 05 FX 2.1
BH: Butterfly Tenergy 05 1.9


Posted By: AllezCho
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 5:12pm
Thank you for sharing with us the inner workings of building a blade. The new blade Spear looks great, I'm a big fan of limba-topped designs!  Will the Lissom also have a limba outer ply? Smile

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/14/2010 at 11:09pm
My next blade Lissom will be quite different from Spear.     
You will not find any similarity, I guess.
It's basic function looks like mixture of violin and acoustic.   

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 7:23am
Wink   SPEAR TESTERS WANTED    LOL
 
 
Dear friends,
 
Here I give you a good news.
 
 
 
I will gather 5 testers, who will receive one SPEAR free of charge.
But this time I will pick up 5 persons on my own.
And I want testers to follow below conditions.
 
 
1. If you want to take part in this, then you need to apply to me only by writing here. You can write why you are suitable, or why you want to do it.
There will be no particular form here.
 
 
2. 5 testers will be selected totally on my own decision.
And the decision will be made only after checking how other poeple write or recommend on that person.
I think if someone gets good replies about his application from other members, then I think I can trust him.
As you know, I'm very new here, and I hope I can rely on other people's opinions.
 
 
3. This time, I will not consider any former relation or mails to me. It's too much complicated to pick up the right person, so I will just check this thread and how people react to the application.
 
 
4. The free blade will go to an applicant, only when he orders something in my http://www.nexy.com - www.nexy.com site. I think I will go on this program here, and I don't want to pay test samples and delivery, too. So, every person needs to know that I will send free sample only together with something ordered in my site.
 
 
5. If the tester receives a blade, then he needs to write a decent review, and I will think that the tester agrees that I can make use of that written article for my advertisement puporses, for an example, I can copy and post that content in my web site or in other community sites for referrances for other people.
 
 
 
There is one more good news.
 
Each tester will be given one free rubber made by AIR.
I imported that rubber, and I want to do some test for that rubbers, too.
So, I will send AIR rubbers, and I hope testers can test that rubber, also.
 
But the rubber test does not have to be related with my free blade "SPEAR", and it will be separate test.
 
 
Ok, please, apply for this new challenge.
 
I will be waiting for all the good people to be interested in my new blade, SPEAR.
 
 
 
 
Wink   SPEAR TESTERS WANTED    LOL
 
 
Be careful, all the applications done by writing here before this notification, ot done by mail... all the past data is not valid.
So, please, apply here again.
 


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Posted By: karabijntje
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 7:55am
Hi Nexy, that's very good news, i'd like to apply for testing "the spear". I'm currently looking for a slower 5ply wood blade, so this might be perfect for me.

I'm playing table tennis for 15 years now and have quite good experience. I've used Grubba, Korbel, Waldner senso carbon, Maze, Off classic, TBS and some more, so I have some reference material to compare too. Also i've speed glued in the past and have tried various rubbers back then and after the ban continued trying different rubbers to find a replacement. I'm very curious to how spear will play and I'm sure I can write a detailed review which will be useful for many people.

Too bad i missed the Color testing session, but this might be even a better blade, it looks very promising! Hope this is enough info, looking forward Thumbs%20Up


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* Vega Pro / Europe


Posted By: mmerkel
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 8:08am
Well, I would greatly love to try out your SPEAR blade. I have written two reviews on here so far. I tested the Killerspin Fortissimo rubber and the Killerspin Kido 7P blade (and I passed both of them on when I was done testing!! LOL).
I have owned and had experience with all wooden blades (729 Bomb, Donic Dicon, Donic Persson Powerplay, Butterfly Timo Boll Off-, Yasaka Extra) and play an offensive looping and smashing game. I use a lot of spin variations in my serve and attack strokes and try to attack from both wings (consistency improvements on the backhand in progress....). My technique is solid and I believe I have good 'feel' for blade/rubber combinations. Although I am far behind many of the members here in the amount of material that I have tested and played with, I would love to expand my knowledge by testing your blade. I would be willing to forward the blade to let others test the blade also (if they promise to send it back after).
I would definitely invest enough time to give a proper review and progress reports over time on your blade.
I also have experience with the Air Scirocco SF rubber. I played with it on several different blades on fh and bh.
That's about all I can say on this.
Good luck to all applicants!



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#2 RL Avalanche#2 -Bluefire M2 -Sigma Europe
#3 Primorac -Boost TP -Magna TC


Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 8:17am
Beautiful blade and no problem any problems i find i will notify you of so as far as i know you need to fix the word "breand" to "brand" ^_^

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Posted By: Skyline
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 9:02am
I would like to test this blade as well.  I have been using the Juic Nebula for the past season. I have played with Korbel, Acoustic and Stiga Offensive Classic.  I really like 5 ply wood blades.


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 9:51am
Originally posted by austin austin wrote:

Beautiful blade and no problem any problems i find i will notify you of so as far as i know you need to fix the word "breand" to "brand" ^_^
 
Thank you Austin.
Why don't you apply yourself?
 
 


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Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 10:03am
if you mean into this testing because i dont want people critizing me about a review if you will be willing to accept the quality of my review i would be more than happy to then send it off to the next person. ^_^ thankyou for your kindness. i check your website very frequently and it is very well put together.

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Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 10:08am

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 10:15am
Originally posted by austin austin wrote:

i would also suggest one more correction i dont know if it would be to long to put but where it says "best of best" it should be "best of the best" ^_^
Thank you very much.
But English is not my mother tongue, and it's not easy to find where I made a mistake even you told me as such.
So, I will just keep things as it is. Once I become intimidated with wrong spelling and wrong grammar, then I would not be enjoying comming here, and that's worse for me than to have wrong English...es... ^ㅠ^


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Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 10:21am
oooh alright sorry i thought you wanted me to help you i will no longer do it =s i really apologies. please dont mind me and disregaurd my comments i already get critized enough T_T. have a nice day.
 
-Austin
 
p.s sorry for the misunderstanding i did not mean to give you an unejoyable time on the forum ^_^


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Posted By: JimT
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 11:01am
As much as I would love to test the SPEAR I think I am disqualified from this testing by many reasons. First of them is that I am trying to concentrate now more on playing with one setup which is

Nexy Color FL (great news for Nexy brand! can I be a featured sponsored player in your marketing campaign? Tongue)

Palio Macro Era 47.5 MAX on FH (shout out to Palio buddies! I can test BLITZ for you... free rubbers for life of course is the condition)

Gambler Outlaw MAX on BH (Tom? I promoted the heck out of it buddy, and no free rubbers from Zeropong? hmm... Confused)

Second reason is that I have already heavily participated in the previous Nexy testing and played with Color, Dexter, Oscar as well as Demian rubbers (just a little). Let the other players do it now.

Third is - I am very curious about LISSOM so perhaps Mr. Moon will consider me as a future tester for that blade (after all, my blade reviews are world famous Embarrassed)


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Posted By: karabijntje
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 11:09am
I would sponsor Nexy in the Netherlands. A shirt with a ganja leaf is quite suitable isn't it LOL. j/k

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Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 11:11am
I am in! Big%20smile

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Posted By: austin
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 11:13am
Originally posted by karabijntje karabijntje wrote:

I would sponsor Nexy in the Netherlands. A shirt with a ganja leaf is quite suitable isn't it LOL. j/k
Thats what i thought in my head first, lol , i was like is that marijuana. but hey nexy seems like a great brand! but seeing the rules im ot able to order so sorry maybe sometime in the future.


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Posted By: tiehwen
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 11:17am
@JimT
Wise & courteous move. It's also time for others to have a few cracks at these upcoming Nexy blades. Also it's also refreshing to listen/read about some other potential candidates other then few of the same old same old groups.
Chronos, Petermoo & Geonomicknight are just the trio I like to hear from them.
There may be others tho'.
I read some of these reviews and strangely ONLY ONE outta these - Colour aroused my interest so far.
I'm quite content w/what I've right now.


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 12:01pm
Originally posted by austin austin wrote:

oooh alright sorry i thought you wanted me to help you i will no longer do it =s i really apologies. please dont mind me and disregaurd my comments i already get critized enough T_T. have a nice day.

-Austin


p.s sorry for the misunderstanding i did not mean to give you an unejoyable time on the forum ^_^

Frankly speaking, I'm thankful actually. Just I want more to save my time. I think I need more time than others in reading and writing, so I decided not to be much taken in those things. But personally, I felt that you just wanted to communicate and be active in this place, which I really appreciate. So don't be bothered at my answers much.

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Posted By: peter79
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 12:10pm
Edited: I would rather try Lissom if I've given a chance.

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Posted By: rawrtje
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 12:31pm
Hi, I would love to be part of the testing crew for your beautiful new blade.

I am very new to this forum, and have not contributed much to have had any impact on the forum or its members, and secondly, I am only a student and have not the resources nor the experience of more veteran members to buy and/or extensively test a plethora of blades and rubbers. Furthermore, in skill level I am only about 1500-1600 USATT. In short, I have little to no credibility. Applying is a long shot, I know, and I hope my interest/desire to test will not meet with ridicule or rolling of eyes. 

Reading through your threads and posts (Nexy), I could not help but be extremely moved by the dedication and care you have put into your work, and the friendliness and effort you have put forth to a customer base. Yours is truly a work of love, and I would be extremely honored to be part of it, contributing whatever I may to it.

I think as far as reviewing goes, I would be able to bring in a slightly different perspective from past ones. As far as I know, most if not all reviewers on this forum for Nexy blades have been shakehanders, whereas I am an offensive-oriented penholder, and have been all my playing life. In one of your earlier posts about the SPEAR, you mentioned it being designed for powerful strokes from Korean penholders playing all around the court, weaving from close to the table to further out. This is the style I play. Although I have a modestly competent reverse penhold backhand block and loop, I still heavily rely on my footwork to pursue heavy forehand loops from every position on the court. I am also modestly competent at fishing and countersmashing from far out. I think it is a very athletic and physically demanding style, which parallels what I have gleaned from your description of Korean penholders.

Over five years I have played, I have "bonded" with every blade I have tried, giving each and every blade I consider at least half a year of heavy use, in order to fully understand and feel its attributes and nuances. In this way, though I am not well-studied in the language of blades and wood and matters, I believe I am very sensitive to the effects of what I am using.  

Thank for your consideration of my application. ^__^


Posted By: Heimdallalso
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 8:11pm
I would like to apply to test this new NEXY blade.
Spear intrigues me!
I am an older, still slowly improving, American player who plays on an average of 2-3 times a week. I do do some drilling & when fortunate enough to, receive some coaching from an under-rated 2200 gentleman.

NEXY first came to my attention when the wave of Color then Oscar & Dexter  testers/users made such a splash here!
I like things done with passion & it certainly seems to be a large part of your business model.
"True Joy of table tennis"
I understand this completely.

I have been playing just long enough to have developed some discernment and am fully confident in my ability to write an informative and useful review.
(I have written some small reviews here that were well received.)

I should add that I am an all-rounder who uses short pips on his BH.
I play for the joy of the sport while still wanting to make some small steps towards improvement. This is more than enough for me! I am an enthusiast not a professional!

Thank You for your time and consideration.
It is quite possible that even should I not be selected I could own a NEXY blade in the future.
If they are on par with XIOM's offerings, then they are FINE blades!

Good Day Sir!
Big%20smile 


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Posted By: kelvinyoong
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 10:35pm
Nice blade. Glad to see that graphics are more subtle now as well.

The outer ply (limba) is so thin. Will there be a risk of splintering with it been so thin.



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Posted By: addoydude
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 10:48pm
Nexy, how about some info about your own testing with the blade?
 
Based on your testing, how does the blade perform compared to classic limba-spruce-ayous 5-plies? 


Posted By: kelvinyoong
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 10:50pm
Sorry to side track a little.

Mr Nexy,

As i am not a blade maker, i am not sure on this so hopefully you can explain.

Why is there no 5 ply combo with limba, hinoki, hinoki, hinoki and limba blades?

Is such a blade construct very bad?


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Posted By: Jolan
Date Posted: 06/16/2010 at 11:34pm
Same as JimT. I have already been very fortunate to be chosen for previous test series. Let the others a chance to be picked up. Now I'll be glad to be amongst the first to buy the blade . Could you tell us when it'll be released and around what price ?

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 9:46am
Originally posted by karabijntje karabijntje wrote:

I would sponsor Nexy in the Netherlands. A shirt with a ganja leaf is quite suitable isn't it LOL. j/k
 
Here are the pictures of Nexy shirts.
 
http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=634 - http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=634
 
 
 
 
http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=632 - http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=632
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: karabijntje
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 9:52am
Good looking shirts, now i see the logo on them. I couldn't see that on the website (was looking at the wrong ones). Personally I find them too colorful on the front side, something simpler would suit me better. But that's personal taste, they are nice shirts.

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 9:53am
Originally posted by Heimdallalso Heimdallalso wrote:

I would like to apply to test this new NEXY blade.
Spear intrigues me!
I am an older, still, slowly, improving American player who plays on an average of 2-3 times a week. I do do some drilling & when fortunate enough to, receive some coaching from an under-rated 2200 gentleman.

NEXY first came to my attention when the wave of Color then Oscar & Dexter  testers/users made such a splash here!
I like things done with passion & it certainly seems to be a large part of your business model.
"True Joy of table tennis"
I understand this completely.

I have been playing just long enough to have developed some discernment and am fully confident in my ability to write an informative and useful review.
(I have written some small reviews here that were well received.)

I should add that I am an all-rounder who uses short pips on his BH.
I play for the joy of the sport while still wanting to make some small steps towards improvement. This is more than enough for me! I am an enthusiast not a professional!

Thank You for your time and consideration.
It is quite possible that even should I not be selected I could own a NEXY blade in the future.
If they are on par with XIOM's offerings, then they are FINE blades!

Good Day Sir!
Big%20smile 
 
Thank you for applying here.
 
Just for some information,
 
For you and for other applicants,
 
I'm not trying to get only good players.
I think good blades does not mean only for top players, and I don't think only top players knows the best answer.
 
So, I hope all people, all age range, all playing levels, can compete here for free SPEAR.
And I will follow my heart when I decide.
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 10:03am
Originally posted by kelvinyoong kelvinyoong wrote:

Sorry to side track a little.

Mr Nexy,

As i am not a blade maker, i am not sure on this so hopefully you can explain.

Why is there no 5 ply combo with limba, hinoki, hinoki, hinoki and limba blades?

Is such a blade construct very bad?
 
Japanese Hinoki does not eqaul to a good blade.
The reason this wood is expensive is only because it's not easy to get.
But I don't think this wood is the best material.
 
If I use Hinoki into middle of the blades, then the cost will be bigger, definately, but the result is not promising.
For the middle layer, normally I need to coordinate the whole weight, power and speed.
But hinoki is not very good material for those things.
 
There are some Hinoki 5 ply, or 7 ply blades. But those blades are aiming for one ply hinoki blade feeling, with thinner thickness.
If I use Hinoki for middle, or center ply, then the cost will be higher, and the blade can not be powerful. And in that case, the feeling of the ball touch will not be big.
 
As I told in the other writing, Hinoki feels little bit that ball is scratching the blade surface but a little sticky.
Once you like the feeling, then your swing movement will be different from other surface blade. So, that's what I usually trying to get.
Normally, if you play with my other Honoki blades, your swing wll become faster and smaller, little by little.
That's quite natural thing you will go through when you play with well balanced Nexy blades. And that's also my intentional design inside the blade.
That's why I use Hinoki on the surface.
 
So, for all these things, you would know that Hinoki is not much attractive inside the blade.
 
Thank you again for asking that,...
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 10:05am
Originally posted by fatt fatt wrote:

I am in! Big%20smile
 
Thank you fatt. Tongue
 
 
By the way, all those previous testers,peter 79, Jim T.... you guys can apply again.
I'm not sure who I will pick yet, and I hope there could be one or two people who could compare SPEAR with COLOR or OSCAR.
 
Ok, nice to meet all your guys back here.
And thank again FATT!
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 10:07am
Originally posted by karabijntje karabijntje wrote:

Hi Nexy, that's very good news, i'd like to apply for testing "the spear". I'm currently looking for a slower 5ply wood blade, so this might be perfect for me.

I'm playing table tennis for 15 years now and have quite good experience. I've used Grubba, Korbel, Waldner senso carbon, Maze, Off classic, TBS and some more, so I have some reference material to compare too. Also i've speed glued in the past and have tried various rubbers back then and after the ban continued trying different rubbers to find a replacement. I'm very curious to how spear will play and I'm sure I can write a detailed review which will be useful for many people.

Too bad i missed the Color testing session, but this might be even a better blade, it looks very promising! Hope this is enough info, looking forward Thumbs%20Up
Thank you for applying for this opportunity, but SPEAR is not slow.
So, I hope you can check that. Smile
 


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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 10:09am
Originally posted by rawrtje rawrtje wrote:

Hi, I would love to be part of the testing crew for your beautiful new blade.

I am very new to this forum, and have not contributed much to have had any impact on the forum or its members, and secondly, I am only a student and have not the resources nor the experience of more veteran members to buy and/or extensively test a plethora of blades and rubbers. Furthermore, in skill level I am only about 1500-1600 USATT. In short, I have little to no credibility. Applying is a long shot, I know, and I hope my interest/desire to test will not meet with ridicule or rolling of eyes. 

Reading through your threads and posts (Nexy), I could not help but be extremely moved by the dedication and care you have put into your work, and the friendliness and effort you have put forth to a customer base. Yours is truly a work of love, and I would be extremely honored to be part of it, contributing whatever I may to it.

I think as far as reviewing goes, I would be able to bring in a slightly different perspective from past ones. As far as I know, most if not all reviewers on this forum for Nexy blades have been shakehanders, whereas I am an offensive-oriented penholder, and have been all my playing life. In one of your earlier posts about the SPEAR, you mentioned it being designed for powerful strokes from Korean penholders playing all around the court, weaving from close to the table to further out. This is the style I play. Although I have a modestly competent reverse penhold backhand block and loop, I still heavily rely on my footwork to pursue heavy forehand loops from every position on the court. I am also modestly competent at fishing and countersmashing from far out. I think it is a very athletic and physically demanding style, which parallels what I have gleaned from your description of Korean penholders.

Over five years I have played, I have "bonded" with every blade I have tried, giving each and every blade I consider at least half a year of heavy use, in order to fully understand and feel its attributes and nuances. In this way, though I am not well-studied in the language of blades and wood and matters, I believe I am very sensitive to the effects of what I am using.  

Thank for your consideration of my application. ^__^
 
C-pen player is also intersting.
What kind of C-pen blade did you like most before?
 


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Posted By: karabijntje
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 10:16am
Originally posted by Nexy Nexy wrote:

Thank you for applying for this opportunity, but SPEAR is not slow.
So, I hope you can check that. Smile

I hope so too Tongue. I did not mean to call it slow, but i'm expecting it to be slower then my current blade, which is a TBS. But i could be wrong ofcourse.


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Posted By: BH-Man
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 11:06am
Hey karabijnte, I operate a TBS with T05/Outlaw and am drooling to findout how Spear will roll with Outlaw/999 rubbers I have used the last year. I get a chance to test drive the Spear in a few days (at NEXY HQ) and the TBS will certainly be a comparison benchmark. I sure hope it is crisp and solid like the TBS and NOT too bouncy, like the Galaxy T-Series.

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Posted By: addoydude
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 11:41am
Nexy, I use Xiom Aria shakehand. The composition of Spear will be the same as Xiom Aria, except for the different thicknesses of the plies. I'd be willing to review the Spear and compare it directly with Aria. I must say I love the Aria and think it is a very versatile and capable blade. Frankly I don't think Spear will be better than the Aria, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 9:20pm
Originally posted by addoydude addoydude wrote:

Nexy, I use Xiom Aria shakehand. The composition of Spear will be the same as Xiom Aria, except for the different thicknesses of the plies. I'd be willing to review the Spear and compare it directly with Aria. I must say I love the Aria and think it is a very versatile and capable blade. Frankly I don't think Spear will be better than the Aria, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)


I heard Aria is good. You like it, then play it. Why other blade?

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/17/2010 at 9:37pm
Today, I will post Spear on www.nexy.com.

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Posted By: Jolan
Date Posted: 06/18/2010 at 12:09am
It is there already but can't order. it doesn't go to the cart. Problem ?

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Posted By: addoydude
Date Posted: 06/18/2010 at 2:50am
Originally posted by Nexy Nexy wrote:

Originally posted by addoydude addoydude wrote:

Nexy, I use Xiom Aria shakehand. The composition of Spear will be the same as Xiom Aria, except for the different thicknesses of the plies. I'd be willing to review the Spear and compare it directly with Aria. I must say I love the Aria and think it is a very versatile and capable blade. Frankly I don't think Spear will be better than the Aria, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)


I heard Aria is good. You like it, then play it. Why other blade?


I'm keeping an open mind. If something is an improvement over Aria I'm interested to test it. I need some new Vega rubbers anyway. So if you pick me to test Spear, i'll buy the Vegas from you. What do you think?


Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/18/2010 at 4:19am
Personally I know the designer of Aria and I showed my Spear to him recently.
He told me that my Spear looks that I made what I really like, and he liked it much.
Thank you for applying here.

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Posted By: Nexy
Date Posted: 06/18/2010 at 6:04am
Originally posted by jcdi jcdi wrote:

It is there already but can't order. it doesn't go to the cart. Problem ?

I checked and could not find problem there.
Please check it again. Thank you!

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Posted By: Jolan
Date Posted: 06/18/2010 at 6:11am

You are right, no more problem. The blade is mine ! Muoaaaaaaaaaa !

Any chance to have serial nr 1 put on it ?
Just kidding....


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Posted By: Thomasson
Date Posted: 06/18/2010 at 7:06am
Hey Nexy,

Firstly I have to say the blade looks magnificent! (Edit: So does the shirts, especially the orange.)
If you would ever set up a Nexy-team to promote it in The Netherlands, id surely want to help on that. Maybe Karabijntje and me can co-operate.

I would like to apply to testing the spear aswell, im a trainer/coach.
I tried out alot of frames/rubbers myself, for myself the blade might not be what im searching for. Why I would like to test it then? Well for the simple fact, I advise the players at my club whats best for them, I dont want to put them in pricey TBS etc right away.

Im also a main team captain of my club, I know when its my technique not reaching full potential, or when the blade/rubbers is working against me.

I would love to review this blade and will put all the pro's and con's in a list, then review it vs some other blades I used. I used a wide variety like previously mentioned. Going from All- up to Off+.

Im looking forward to ur reply, whether its positive or not, im impressed :)

Yours Sincerely,

Johan Thomassen


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Posted By: rawrtje
Date Posted: 06/18/2010 at 12:16pm
Originally posted by Nexy Nexy wrote:



C-pen player is also intersting.
What kind of C-pen blade did you like most before?
 


Mr. Moon,

I like my 729 Bomb the most so far! It has a nice amount of dwell, but the cork core also allows for power further out. My second favorite is the Galaxy W6. The increased dwell time was wonderful for close-to-the-table looping, but it was much too weak farther from the table with non-glued rubbers.



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