New spezial shape fom a Off TT Blade

I honestly wouldn't be able to hit the ball with that.

I think you won't be able to play with that blade. I'm thinking about a blade like this. A normal carbon blade with a large sweet spot. Then the larger the sweet spot is, the larger the blade. So very shot is aimed for glory.

can I help with the marketing?

man that blade bites bigtime!

I want to wait that that blade concept matures a bit because those baby sharks chew and breaks all my balls instead spinning and hitting them.

Right on! Thank you UlmoGerman.
My shipping address will be in you PM box shortly after I'll post this.
In case you do not want the blade back after my testing I will send it to another member to start another journey in the "Modified KC" style.
For those who missed the Modified KC's wolrdwide adventures, read
http://mytabletennis.net/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13773
I am humbly asking Tommyzai, Metalone and  JimT to accept to be heads of the list.

I'm in!

UlmoGerman asked me what handle I wanted and I picked anatomic.

I'll try it for a few days and then it will go to (short list so far):

tommyzai
varghesep

it's a shame you will have to ruin a rubber while testing the blade....I doubt it will fit another blade!

Dear UlmoGerman,

Hello fatt,

I hope you writ a report after testing my blade. I think you will need some times to use the benefit from the new shape. I need 3-4 times by training for it. After these time i can hit the ball more at the top and so i get mor spin into my game. Also the FS flip will be easyer with the blade because the lever is longer table tennis blades

best regards

Ulrich Moeller

i think we all will wait for fatt`s report ;-)

regards uli

hello fatt,

did you test the blade? Can you pleas post your test report? :-)

best regards

uli

Here is what I experienced with Tenergy 64 on the FH and Coppa Gold on the BH on that 86 grams blade.

1st I have to say that because the dimensions of the blade I had almost an inch free between the handle and the bottom of the rubber and about a 1/4 inch off the blade on the sides. That made the blade head heavy.

What I really was curious about was the leverage I could get by hitting with the top of the head and I have to say the robot was the best partner to do that: I would have annoyed a human practice partner because...I missed a lot at first. Of course the sweet spot is already smaller when hitting/driving normally becasue the blade is only a bit more than 5 inches at its widest.
So trying to do so with the top of the head was a challenge but when I was successful I was rewarded with a rocket. It is sure that because the 7 inches tall head, the speed of its top is higher and so for a given wrist motion the stroke will be more powerful...at the expense of precision that can be built overtime --> after 30 minutes I was feeling comfortable.

Topspinning/Looping with the FH with the top of the head I could not do as well as the BH loop. The ball DOES TRAVEL ON THE RUBBER FROM RIGHT TO LEFT (looking at the rubber) when we loop so having a less wide rubber does not help. Also my FH loop is still shy so I wanted to do it more conventionally. The only way I could do it OK with the FH was to hit with a stone throw kind of stroke and change angle of the bat right at contact time to follow through with the ball: there I had a very fast ball that was spinny enough to loop down. However the margin for error is so little on that stroke and it would take great timing and fast positionment to perform consistently. For sure simply brushing the ball in a conventional loop was not easy for me. I frankly do not think this blade is done for that but a better player than me will have to confirm.

I have a fast wrist motion on the BH and so I had as much fun hitting and looping with the top of the head.

Flipping with the top of the head is definitely a pleasure!!!

Pushing and the short game has logically to be done with the lower sweet spot. Of course: why would you complicate your life on a stroke that does not require power?

HEY!!!!!! why did I write "lower sweet spot"? I guess because the blade has 2 sweet spots. One for power that is at the top and very small: no mistake allowed. One just below the middle of the blade.

Vibrations are those of an OFF/OFF- wood blade and on the hard sponge of T64 it felt really good.

My conclusion?

1) I like balance: to avoid a head heavy setup I need light rubbers on that blade and Stiga Boost TP 2.0 (from what I read about it...) on both sides seems to be a dream setup for me.

2) 7 inches head allows with its top to get more flex with more spring effect and speed but it requires more follow through with a faster arm speed.
Also it feels htat the spring effect is happening quicker so the timing is more critical than with a conventional blade.

3) the blade is more for hitters than loopers. I say this because I had fun hitting all the way and I was shy and focused while looping. It's generally the opposite in my game. However I may change my mind overtime and become as good a looper/hitter with it.

Thanks Ulmo for letting me try this blade. Please tell us: what is the name of the wood and the type of glue you used? also I could not see how many plies it has (?)

@varghesep and TZ: who wants to try it first?

It could be "egg" attack.