Suggestions needed for OFF Blade and rubbers

Hi All,

I need a little help choosing a new blade and rubbers. At the outset I want to say that I'm not very knowledgeable on equipment and have not given equipment too much importance so far, but now I think it's high time I upgraded. Some info:

Xiom Strad, Maze and TBS are Carbon Arylate blades and are rather different from pure Carbons like Schlager Light.

After I tried around 10 blades, as you can see from my signature, I settled down on two, both are great in my opinion. You can get T-4 as light as 80-82 g, my Strad is around 88 g. If you can get light T-4 from eacheng.net (email them directly and ask them what is the lightest one they got; if you are going for TBS which is usually 88-89 g, then perhaps you don't mind them to be 85-87; just in case ask Coly Ely - colestt.com - if he still has any T-4 s left). T-4 has four carbon layers two of which are soft - it has amazingly good control for such a inexpensive and carbon blade (read some reviews on it here). Cost to you: $35 (!!!). If you decide to go with XS, it goes really well with fast but controlling rubbers like my H3-Ps - granted they are a bit heavier than medium but XS has very very good balance and that really helps. However, cost to you: $100 (from Affordable TT in Australia, they have good prices and very reliable and knowledgeable people).

My advice: try T-4 first, give rubbers some time to settle down on it, get used to the new feeling, then see if you want something else.

Are you in North America, by the way?

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I am in North America.

Keep your Stiga blade,buy a new Hurricane 3 provincial for FH, and long pip on your BH.

i have a donic waldner hinoki three ply blade very offensive with sriver  and mark 5 m2 max

@bull_harrier: I've mostly played with wooden blades so far, tried a friend's Schlager Light and Juic Air C-8  for a short while, and now don't mind switching to a composite blade. I don't intend to experiment with equipment too much; want to get at least the blade selection right the first time.

Don't buy LP's if you occasionally like to loop LP's aren't the way to go

Is it true that Bryce FX is only effective when speed glued.  I don't intend to speed glue, so would you still recommend that? Is Sriver G2 FX better unglued? I wonder why V-Stage doesn't have too many good reviews around. Could be because it's expensive. I'm a little partial to BTY and Yasaka as I've been playing with them most of the time.

I disagree, i think Bryce FX works well unglued.  It's not as spinny of course when it's unglued but it can still generate a good amount of power mixed with spin. 

Exactly that's your opinion, I've had good experience with it and I've got nothing to complain about.  Sorry to hear it's not working out well with ya, how long have you been using it and are you using it on your FH or BH?

Bryce FX does have a low throw angle, do you think it has a high throw angle? If so you'd be the first person i've talked to that's said that

how about the andro carbo-aramid blade i with two sheets of neos sound,neos sound synergy,or two sheets of almana sound synergy the head is compact it is a light blade and with any of these two rubbers mentioned above the cost is around $127 at  www.ping-pong.com

Hey peterC, maybe you could share some of your experiences regarding the k4 with us.  I was searching the forum for a review and could not find a really good one.  Thanks.