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Nexy
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Posted: 06/13/2010 at 10:46pm |
Now I'm writing an article about how I make blades.
Regarding OSCAR, I want to give one information.
Oscar has a very natural feeling and vibration, not like other Arylate carbon blades.
The result is not very peculiar when you compare other blades and Osar only with speed, but it's very outsanding, when you think about feeling.
And that feeling genrates big spin and good control,while you don't lose any other good factors most other Arylate carbon blade has.
Maybe later, I will write more about it.
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I do agree with your last comment. !!
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BeaverMD
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I know this topic is old but I wanted to add my opinions about the Oscar. I used a clubmates blade with Sriver L on the FH and Sriver EL on the BH. It was sad actually. His dad accidentally stepped on his old racket and broke it So his dad bought him two new blades, the Oscar and some other which I haven't seen.
I'll try to compare it with another popular A/C blade - the Viscaria. The Oscar definitely has a slightly harder feel and considerably faster than the Viscaria. I think the Sriver L on the FH provided good power, steady spinning, and most important for me, good ball feel when out of position. On the negative side, I felt that Sriver EL on the BH for me is too soft for this blade. The kid that let me use it was about 1500-1600 but improving. He seemed to have good control with the Sriver EL on the BH.
There was a 2500 player visiting our club. He tried it but didn't like it right away. I think it had to do with him using Kreanga Carbon with Bryce on both sides. He prefers a stiffer feel. A 2300 player who uses Balsa Carbo X5 with Sriver G3 liked the Oscar though. But like me, he didn't like the Sriver EL on the BH.
Overall, I thought the Nexy Oscar is a good solid blade. Many here have stated that it might be too fast but I think it depends on the rubbers on it. I wouldn't hesitate recommending it to beginners with thinner sponge Mark V or Sriver, especially Sriver EL. It would have been nice to test it with some of my own faster rubbers though ex. Bryce FX, Neo H3, Catapult, Mambo C etc. But I enjoyed hitting with the Sriver L on the FH. Oh, one last thing, one other positive thing I liked about Oscar is the dampening feel when blocking. Felt like putting brakes on your opponent's loops.
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That's a good news. I hope you can keep on playing with Nexy.....
Regarding the weight of the blades, I hope I can do the same thing, but not easy to do.Maybe, I need to check more, if I can do it.
If you have any more new idea about www.nexy.com, please, write more or email me.
Thank you again.
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Thank you for the info re your new Nexy.com website. Looks very nice. It should please my fellow french forumers who were, I must say, a bit reluctant to order on your Tak9.com. Even if google translator is good enough, it wasn't very "friendly user". If I may suggest you : Onto your Tak9.com website, customer has the opportunity to choose his blade between different blades weight and also check the availabilities. This is, IMHO, a great plus compared to your competitors websites. Why didn't you duplicate this facility onto your new Nexy.com site ?
Ps: Did you notice, I'm now playing with your blade as set up number 1 ?
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No. It's just that I have tendinosis at the moment. I can't train seriously. I just play my 3 team matches and then it hurts too much. Madash needs me to force my motions a bit that I can't do. Oscar and T64 provides extra power without being uncontrollable.
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So jcdi you giving up the Madash? -)
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Jolan
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Dear Nexy. Thank you for having built the Oscar blade, thank you for having promoted this testing program, thank you for having chosen me. I have dressed, as mentionned above, Oscar with Tenergy 64 (both sides, now) and, oddly enough, I played with it my two last competitions.
Results have been more than satisfaying. 4 wins, 3 losses. Losses have nothing to do with the blade but rather to my opponents who were better than me....The point is that I have enjoyed every minutes of it. This set up provides an amazing combination for power looping and safe hitting. I'm still struggling with the short and the block game but it is mainly due to T64 which is very sensitive to incoming spin. Please forgive my first initial mixed feelings and congrats again for such a great blade !
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I've played the Oscar tonite with tenergy64 2.1mm and Demian max. As expected, Demian behaves much better on Oscar than on Acoustic. Looks like Demian needs stiff blade to develop its potential. But still, tenergy is much faster than demian so it ended up on FH while I kept demian BH.
This set up is really good, especially tenergy 64 and Oscar. It's fast, powerful and reliable. Demian on BH provides very solid feel, great spin on loops, enough speed on drives. I made a lot of unforced errors when pushing. Put the blame on my poor experience with chinese tacky rubbers.
Oscar is such a good blade that it fits either german tensors, Japanese tenergies and chinese tackies. It's rare enough to be mentioned. I suspect tenergy05 to be equally good too on this blade. Weight isn't really an issue. My combo tonite weighted 180gr which is quite acceptable.
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Nice review
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Probably not all of us - but the original testers did. |
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I didn't know all of you guys got it for free. Anyway, sellers pm me then.
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JimT
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I wouldn't feel comfortable selling an Oscar I got from Nexy for free. Trading might be another thing - and that is something I am trying to do right now.
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Let me know if anyone decides to sell his/her Oscar (preferably ST).
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JimT
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Added a small Blocking section to my review.
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Jolan
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Odd...! If you like Dexter so much, don't give it up because of the short game. That is one of my favorite skill I found this blade has. I was really impressed by the blade behaviour in that part. It is actually much easier to adjust his short game with a "one gear blade" rather than with a "two gear blade". Just my two cents....
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Anton Chigurh
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I feel honored to be mentioned in your review, JimT. (Another excellent one, BTW.)
As it happens, I don't care for composite blades. Or I should say, I don't care for the ones I've tried so far: Butterfly Michael Maze and Nittaku Rutis. They were not bad, but I just don't care for the feel of composite blades. I much prefer all-wood blades. Nonetheless, your review and suggestion are tempting... But... no, darn you! I've spent the last two months EJ-ing, and I'm finally smitten with my current setup. When I think of EJ-ing more, I feel nauseous. No more temptation, guys! I invoke my overwhelming power as "Assistant Moderator" and declare a ban on all equipment reviews, henceforth!!! Dexter is an awesome blade at high speed; but as you guys mentioned, it's a one-gear blade. My short game isn't terribly strong to begin with. Using Dexter, it was atrocious. If only Dexter had the short game of Color... *sigh* As a side note, my Dexter is for sale! Perhaps once my short game improves (and assuming no one purchases Dexter), I may give him another whirl in a few months. Until then, Yasaka Hinoki Leo 7, Neo H2, and Coppa Platin, FTW!!! |
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thethinker
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Good review Jim. I am now using the Oscar as my main (sh) weapon, Hannibal as back up, because I have just enough time for so many blades. I really like Nexy blades for Chinese rubbers. I hope Anton give his blade a little more time.
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Jolan
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Very nice review, JimT. I meet all your statements. The blade works much better with T64 than with german tensors. I'm not sure about T05 or harder chinese tacky. I shall try it with demian soon which is in that range. I'll let you know.
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Finally I feel like I can post something here. Played with Oscar two times - an hour each.
My (formerly from lildudejds) Oscar is 88 g, FL. Craftsmanship is (as always with Nexy) extremely good, very nice finish, great look. Now to the specifics. I will be making comparisons to other two Nexy blades I have tested before: Color and Dexter. As with those two I had two Outlaws MAX (2.2) on both sides of the combo. Balance: almost as good as Color. However it feels like the balance is overshifted (is that a word?) just a bit into the handle. That means that you would be well advised to use heavier rubbers on Oscar (Tenergy 05, Blue Whale, thick tensors etc.). Then the balance should be just right. Result: better than Dexter, slightly different (not worse) than Color. Speed: about the same as Dexter, meaning that it is approximately 10% faster than Color. However, with Dexter it came as a result of shifted balance and thicker plies. Here it results from extra spring which comes from...? carbon-arilate layer, perhaps? slightly unusual balance? Result: 10% faster than Color, same as Dexter Control: yes, I agree with other guys who said that Oscar is also a 2-gear blade. Gentle touch produces really gentle stroke, faster swing produces fast hit. Different from Dexter in that regard, very similar to Color. However, there is this extra spring in Oscar which I found somewhat disquieting for myself. It's a quality rather similar to the catapult effect on the tensor rubbers. As I said many times before on this forum, I don't like that - I do not need my rubbers or my blade to behave in a non-linear fashion. However, there are tons of players (a majority of OFF/OFF+ players, perhaps) who enjoy that, who like that quality and who learned to employ it in their style. More power to them then, I say and wholeheartedly recommend Oscar for players of that ilk. Result and recommendations: Control is just a tad worse than Color but better than Dexter. However, I think if you paired Oscar with fast but tacky rubbers (Hurricanes of many types come to mind) then the catapult effect will not be as prominent and disturbing but will help to counteract the usual slowness of response during slow and mid-power shots which is something that many people complain about when playing with tacky rubbers. Short game: very good. For an OFF blade - outstanding. Just a touch less than Color but relatively to the overall speed, excellent balance of short game prowess and attacking speed. Result: the best OFF blade in this department I ever played with. Flat attack, smash - surprisingly less convincing than both Color and Dexter. Needs heavier and harder rubbers to shift balance into the head and produce nice smashes and flat killstrokes. Result: not as good as Dexter or even Color for that matter. But it can be fixed by proper rubber choice (depends on the playing style though). Blocking: once again, it depends on the rubbers. By itself Oscar is a very decent blocking blade, with large sweet spot and consistency. But it is a rather bouncy composite so do not expect to be dazzled by its blocking abilities per se. Result: very good but not excellent. Depends much on how good you are yourself in this particular element. Looping - outstanding. I bet that if you put on it some rubbers which loopers love (Outlaws are OK but do not excel there) then Oscar will simply dazzle you. However, as I am not a huge looper myself (I can do them but not as a standard element of my game - but for the purpose of this testing I have undertaken a few cycles) you need to take this recommendation with some measure of salt. Result: better than Dexter and Color. Defensive game - not something you would want to bother with this blade. This is really more OFF than OFF- blade (to compare with, Color is OFF- with some nice ALL qualities). That extra springiness I mentioned above does not help chopping or controlled low slices/pushes. Doable, of course, but not this blade's forte. Close to the table defensive control is quite OK but as you go farther from the table, this blade shows its offensive nature. Result: worse than Color (noticeably), on par with Dexter. My overall conclusion: this is the blade that Anton (I mean our forummer Anton Chigurh here of course) should have bought, not Dexter. Very much recommended for OFF players, especially for those who play closer to the table and need nice touch over the table as well. I repeat - this is the best OFF blade I have ever played with (not that I covered hundreds of them, but... let's say, around 10-15). For my (OFF-) style I could see myself play with it (much more so than in case of Dexter) if it weren't for Color. If I did I would have taken Outlaws off and put on it something like Gambler Wraith or LKT Rapid Speed (mildly tacky, softer but springy and fast rubbers). I bet that for the tensor lovers rubbers like T-64 and Xiom Vega will play superbly on this great blade (provided that the overall balance of the blade is to their liking). Same goes for people who love heavier tacky new Chinese rubbers like Neo, BW-2 and such. |
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yeah... i like oscar better than color myself... pairing with 2.2 neo as well..
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Up until last week I was using 2.15mm H3 Neo on the Oscar and decided to compare it with the 2.2mm 39% H3 Neo, that was on the Color.
The result is I actually prefer the 2.2mm 39% H3 Neo, on the Oscar; as it's better for looping on the forehand; particularly when looping from 4-5 feet off the table. Even though I liked the performance of 2.2mm H3 Neo on the Color, I feel it's a better match on the Oscar. |
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I played the Oscar a few more time with TG2 fh and T05 bh. Everything is pretty much what I expected and it seems that this is the right rubbers for this blade, for me anyway. Lots gears. Lots control and power for spinning. Haven't lost any matches but haven't play anyone above 1970 with this combo.
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Jolan
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Ha Ha Ha ! My affliction isn't adjustability, it is versatility !
If you spend time enough to retrace my post for the last 5 years, you will see I fall in love with a blade every 6 monthes...
At the moment, my mistress name is MADASH !
I've spent 3 years with miss acoustic (she holds the record...), but for the rest, it's quick stories....
But yes, all in all, you are right. What I enjoy the most in testing blades is the search of the perfect match. As soon as I detect a good potential in a blade, I will not be satisfied until I find the rubber which matches this blade perfectly for my game. On the other hand, when I don't like something, I know it at once and I don't insist. I don't like to review things I didn't like because I know some other players might enjoy it and could be discourage by my bad undertakings.
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jcdi, I suspect that you (as myself) are suffering from affliction called "adjustability". What I mean is that whenever I play with a more or less decent blade which more or less suits my style I find myself adjusting to it relatively easy, and liking it more and more with every minute of play.
It is only after you have played with each blade for many days and even many weeks, you start feeling subtle differences between them, get much better understanding which rubbers go well with them, and finally only then you can decide which one is best for you. Me - I cannot say which of my 3-4 primary blades is best for me. Simply because there are days when I play better with WRC-10, and on another day I feel I cannot play with anything but Nexy Color, and then I realize that my Darker Speed 90 is the ultimate blade. And then the cycle continues... |
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New test with tenergy 64 2.1mm on FH tonight. It is MUCH better than my xtend hs on this blade. I've enjoyed every shots, not my partner...
I've mentionned before Oscar provides very low throw angle shots. With tenergy which is high arc, it is balancing perfectly !
I feel like I found (for me...) the perfect match with that blade. It's very rewarding...
Now I am much embarrassed... I said before (maybe too quickly...) I was fanciing Color more than Oscar...I'm not so sure anymore...
After all, that's what tests are made for, isn't ?
What I'm sure of, is that Oscar can easily compete with other Arylate/carbon blades I've played with before, such as Butterfly Maze and TBS. Go nexy, go !
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Interesting. You are saying use thinner 1.9mm sponges. This give some of the same effect as my recommendation of using harder sponges, which is reducing the bounce of the combo, making the combo less soft, and getting more speed and less arc out of it. A very good alternatives, good recommendation. This blade really give so much spin that you have to reduce it somehow in order to add speed. I supposed that is the prefered way of building a good blade, i.e. rather than having to increase the spin by going to soft sponges.
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I did setup myself for it didn't I?
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