Recommend a modern defender blade

Slow -- Def or ALL speed

Some flex -- should still be able to hit a good loop

Straight handle available

Good balance and feel, lots of control

Please suggest! Here are some I'm considering:

Donic Defplay Senso -- heard it has a lot of vibration and is a bit head-heavy. If I could get it without the "Senso" hollow handle, it may be perfect. Good blend of def speed and flex.

Yasaka Extra -- this may be my best option, but not too sure how popular it is among defenders?

Gambler Aralyte Carbon -- unfortunately, the regular sized blade is no longer available with straight handle and I'm not sure I want to go to the huge oversized style. I don't want anything to impede my quickness when switching from BH to FH. I don't mind slightly oversized blades, but the pure defense blades look a little too big/awkward for my game.

Maybe I should just stick with my Daweii -- I really don't have any complaints about it, I just can't help but think I am missing something by playing with a $12 blade. 

right now I'm testing a defplay senso (non-classic version) with straight handle. atm it has tg3neo and 563 medium pips 1.8 sponge on it. balance is fine with this setup; head-heavy but not drastic. i also tried replacing the 563 with HRT Wujilong. Total weight 189, and indeed, head heavy. but, tg3neo and hrt wujilong are both fairly heavy rubbers. swap one of those out with donic vario and it would be a totally different story. This blade is fantastic. looping underspin with tg3neo against my robot, i've never heard the topspin burn up the catch net like this before. a friend called it a can't miss looping blade, i agree

yasaka extra... strikes me as a weird choice; but i don't have much input there

Gambler AC may only be made in straight now, but if you posted a LF thread, you could probably get one in flared

funny that you're using the DW2, i was just thinking a couple days ago how that would make a good modern defender's blade. it's a very good blade at 12 dollars. i think the defplay senso would blow your socks off though.

my 2 cents

if you like a banana flightpath on your loops this blade does it like no other i`ve seen

grab a defplay senso (85grams) and put a 5 gram weight in the handle... and you'll be in heaven

i ordered the 2nd to last flared (got shipped today)... the last is saved for you :)

my "ha" was because he was writing basically what I was writing at the same time

it's gone!

on another note, i've held and bounced a ball on an LQ1... the craftsmanship looks really good and the tone suggests it's a good blade

Here's an example of how he plays (he is the defender there, of course)