Nittaku Ruforal Review

Nittaku Ruforal Review

I just got this blade today along with the Nittaku Renanos Soft rubber from tt-Japan and it came in 4 days. Here is my review of this blade. I review this blade with that rubber which is a soft OFF rubber with some speed glue effect. I glue the rubber and blade together with rubber cement. Oddly the rubber expanded very much. Also this blade is a one ply hinoki (9mm) ...now I came become a part of the single ply hinoki cub!!!

Feel- this blade is a one ply hinoki blade that is 9mm think. Hinoki blades are known for their great feel because of the softish wood. This blade lives up to the standards. Great feel on all shots. Also the handle is very comfortable, which would go along with the feeling in my hand

Touch play- Touch play with this blade is amazing, probably because of the great feel. I could do almost everything in the short game with this blade! But there was some problems... I felt the blade had a large catapult effect and it was sometimes hard to get spin on pushes because of this. But everything else was fine and blocks were very good, I felt I could put them anywhere, short, long, on any side.

Hitting- This blade is fast!! Almost too fast. When I was hitting close to the table the catapult was almost too much. But after a few minutes I got used. Hitting was fast and felt better to do on than my YEO does. And hit blocking with great too. I felt there was a lot of power.

Looping- looping felt great. I was worried that spin would be a problem but I wasn’t. Not as easy to loop as Yeo but still good. Spin was there but not as much YEO. Though I thought it was not as spinney in loops as other blades I found my loops to be much faster and more aggressive than with any other blade.

Speed- OFF to OFF+ leaning to the OFF+ side

Counter Looping- I counter loop away from the table and let me say this blade is the best in this!! Better than YEO and HRT RW5. The Throw is low and the ball travels fast but the spin isn’t as much as Yeo on these shot but it is still great.

Comfort- As I said earlier comfort is superb. Much, much, much… much better than cpen for me. If you play cpen and don’t use RPB much and think cpen is uncomfortable jpen may be for you.

Service- I had problem sometimes serving with cpen this jpen helps some. Anyway serving is very good but sometimes too much catapult. But I can get used to this.

This blade is amazing so far and it will be my main set-up from now on. This blade was 48USD n tt-japan and for the price the quality is superb.

Thanks for reading  hope you enjoy