Stiga Infinity V Blade Review

Nice review Yogi.

Today I tried Infinity (which I already put on sale) once more, just a final session. 88 gr, ST handle, FH: T05, BH: T05 FX.

Balance is good, better than RW or Ebenholz. Handle feels just a bit thicker. Quality is usual Stiga.

It has hardish feel. Not classic limba, not at all. I don't know why Stiga is trying to harden the outer plies this much, but I don't like it. This gives the blade a dead and dry feel, especially during short game, low powered strokes. It helps keep the ball short, but for me, I don't feel the ball at all.

Looping is very good. Especially at the table or close to table. Arc is pronounced. No problems about the amount of spin. When you go further off the table, power start to diminish. A bit of flex helps but not so much. You have to work hard to get the best of the blade. This is quite logical, it is a hardish thin 5 ply allwood with not so much catapult.

Hitting seems weakish (I'm not after monstrous punches or flat hits). Blocking is very good, expecially passive.

Short game as I mentioned before is very good. This is probably one common good feature for most new generation Stigas.

Anyway, conclusion: Infinity stays on sale. I won't have the time to train as hard as FZD nor I'm that young.

I don't agree it's an ordinary blade. Actually it's a strange one for me and I don't think you can find a similiar blade in any brand. Amount of spin, speed or control maybe similiar to many 5 ply blades, but the feel and power delivery ratio is different.

ejmaster wrote: To complete your smart post Thomasson, ejmaster, smashing the zombi (hater thomasson) over and over again= check Don't be angry Thomasson. You already have a lot of good things in life. Have to learn one can not have everything. Thomasson= no power= check :(

U make less and less sense every post you make.

Infinity has same construction like blades Waldner used? Limba-Spruce-Ayous.

garwor wrote: Infinity has same construction like blades Waldner used? Limba-Spruce-Ayous.

The second layer has burn process.
The feeling is not so good feeling as in the waldner.
In fact the Infinity as a 5 ply wood lacks feeling. As dead.
It has a lot of control about blocking and favours agressive bh when receiving services.
But as said it is hard to feel the blade.
Quite particular blade.
And for sure one can play at top level with an allwood blade as good as a composite. Never said anything different than this.
Just that a yeo feels with better performance than an intensity and a viscaria than an infinity (fzd has a contract with stiga).
Shiono now has a donic contract and played with def play.
Penholders usually like to play allwood blade.
Ebenholz, Rw, Stratpw, Clipper, etc have all the performance needed to play at top level.



Edited by ejmaster - 11/20/2013 at 2:36pm

Hi all,
some things in this thread are a bit puzzling to me - I'll explain some of the more tecnical ones only

I've actually three infinity and it might be interesting to have some more data points:
- Master, 79gr. thickness 6.2 mm
- Master, 88gr. thickness 6.1 mm
- Champ, 80gr. thickness 6.15mm

As already said, finish is quite rough - although I've to say the basic work seems to be of very good precision - top veneer is very thin and one often can observe uneven thic´kness over the whole area - here it seems to be very "parallel".
Weight differences are high - but at the same time playing characteristic to me seemed to be less influenced by weight compared to many other blades.

I'm a bit surprised about comments that it lacks power - I completely agree about precision, not only passive strokes - all active strokes as well.

Head size of my samples is unsual 149.5 x 155.5  (+0.5 within those samples)

Actually my son plays those blades - he switched from KLHS - playing with MX-P FH and EL-P BH.

Touch feel is relatively hard, but there's decent flex when actually playing.

Personally I've never been a friend of the classic second ply spruce blades, and actually my son, who's the much better player, almost hates them - there's just too much high frequ. vibrations going on there. I only found few samples which I really liked....Waldner off 40 wasn't one of those, the older type and Dicon were much nicer and less disturbing vibrations - better feel IMO.

The infinity feels different from those classic spruce blades - as mentioned by some a little bit "hollow" but if one get's used to it and paired with dense, hard rubbers very good feel and touch IMO.

How does the Stiga Infinity V compare against Xiom Aria?

Thanks, sounds like Infinity would be a downgrade.

How does the Infinity VPS compare to the Offensive NCT? Seems like a similar construction other than the burned layer vs non-burned. 

I found this chart at http://www.yoger.com.cn/product/142161.html

There are reviews available too but in Chinese.  But you can use Google Chrome to translate it into other languages.

Some notable reviews and recommendations:

"You can open any of our gifted a network domestica floor, the floor had a whole series of pages domestica dimensional analysis chart, we can see from the figure seven strong sort of Ebony - Rose 7 - Maple 7 - Rose XO-VPS.
So we can see that there is a stalemate vps control play and play and Loop controlled play very good performance, but if the pursuit of violent attack, preferred or ebony 7."

"3, the structure is hard five folders, add a special surface coating increases the stiffness of the diamond.
4, integrated hardness should be harder than the CL softer than OC, suitable Loop running game, perfect control."

"Forehand, continuous attack is good, but need to feel good with this kind of board is still relatively hard board, power is good, but because of the VPS technology to join it, making this board has 2.7 folder flavor, eat the ball unlike ordinary five folders as comfortable, deformation small, but overall good, pull the power like a small ball of red and black carbon One king."

LethalForehand wrote: I only had a short session with the infinity, because it was a factory-defective one, but have good experience with the off. wood. the latter feels much softer, much flexier and also a bit slower. The two blades are in different leagues  I think.

seguso wrote: I just got my Infinity. I played a bit with it, but only against return board. Here are my first impressions (likely to change after real training): Note: I was coming from Offensive CR and Offensive wood nct. Rubbers: m1 max forehand; coppa x2 2.0 bh. Speed: definitely slower than offensive CR. I'd say like offensive nct. Maybe even slower (as my offensive nct has lost the nct coating). Flex: a lot. It does not feel stiffer than offensive wood nct and offensive CR, which I expected. Maybe just a bit. This is strange, because it is thicker than both blades. But when you play, it flexes a lot on power loops. Maybe a bit less in controlled loops. hardness: not hard at all. a lot softer than offensive CR. as soft as my offensive wood nct (which has lost the nct coating). Probably even softer than the offensive classic. Weight: 82 gr. My two offensive wood NCt are 78 and 83. My offensive CR wrb is almost 90. in short, this seems like a slightly stiffer offensive wood nct, with equal speed and spin.

looks like the difference in speed is mostly because of weight difference.

seguso wrote: and hardness. the cr feels harder. (my cr is also very flexible, it is 5.3 mm)

it's also logical that a heavier blade is harder.

The quality of Infinity to price is very nice. Compared to other blades that cost much more Infinity is a steal.