Review: Nexy Tuvalu
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Topic: Review: Nexy Tuvalu
Posted By: JimT
Subject: Review: Nexy Tuvalu
Date Posted: 11/07/2012 at 3:43pm
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Blade: Nexy Tuvalu FL (5-ply wood) + 1 ply carbon; this is combination blade) Provenance: presented by Nexy for testing Speed: 8.0/6.5 Control: 8.0/9.0 Feel: Medium/Soft Thickness: 9.7 mm Weight: 87 grams General comments: Blade is quite oversized (when glued on my regular rubbers fail to reach the edge by 5-6 mm!)but is not heavy and is pretty well balanced. Mostly to due to a thick balsa layer I presume. It is very well crafted, quality is superb. Very crisp, rather sharp finish, edges are very well pronounced and the wings are not rounded. I have sealed it slightly to make sure no splinters happen... The forehand side has a carbon later located about 0.8 mm deep. The backhand side is identical in all but the absence of the carbon layer. Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/JimT2008/NexyTuvalu - https://picasaweb.google.com/JimT2008/NexyTuvalu   ------------- Single Ply Hinoki Club, Founding Member Say "no!" to expensive table tennis equipment. Please... |
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Posted By: JimT
Date Posted: 11/07/2012 at 3:43pm
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First impressions: as some of you know I am not a pips-out player so I do not (most likely) belong to the target audience for this blade. But still, I put on both sides of Tuvalu my regular offensive rubbers - Xiom Omega IV Asia and started hitting. First of all, I should say that with my regular sized rubbers balance was more or less OK. But I imagine that when the rubbers are cut to the size of this VERY OVERSIZED blade, the balance will be worse. That's where having pimples out on one side will surely come in handy, lowering the overall weight on the face side of the paddle and rectifying the balance issue. Secondly, the edges are pretty rough - I would really recommend rounding the wings. Thirdly, it was already mentioned on OOAK that having a picture on the BH side really messes up things for OX players, since the image bleeds through the no-sponge topsheet and makes it illegal. Now to the game. The combo is very poppy on the FH side. Not a surprise really - having a thick balsa core will do that to you. So I am not recommending having fast tensors on your FH unless you are already accustomed to playing with thick balsa blades and know how to handle that high throw angle and "balsa catapult" effect. O4Asia plays in OFF style on FH, looping quite decently but with a medium-OK performance in short game. On the BH side I could instantly see the muffling effects of not having that carbon layer. The blade was noticeably slower, and even driving with Omega I could feel the ball slowing down and flying shorter than expected. I can only imagine how interesting the BH blocks with slow pips-out rubber will go. So then I stopped playing and gave the blade to my clubmate, a veteran with many (decades!) years of experience playing with medium and long pips on BH, a 2000+ USATT level player. He will put his regular rubbers (including long pips) on Tuvalu and will test it out shortly. His impressions will be conveyed here, in the following posts. Thanks! ------------- Single Ply Hinoki Club, Founding Member Say "no!" to expensive table tennis equipment. Please... |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 11/07/2012 at 11:32pm
Not necessarily e.g if the OX sheet is black. ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Cybershape Carbon FH/BH: H3P 41D. Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
JimT wrote:Posted By: yogi_bear
Date Posted: 11/09/2012 at 5:54am
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is that a rosewood layer with balsa inner core? looks a bit thick ------------- Independent online TT Product reviewer of XIOM, STIGA, JOOLA, SANWEI, GEWO, AIR, ITC, APEX, YASAKA and ABROS ITTF Level 1 Coaching Course Conductor, ITTF Level 1 Coach |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 11/09/2012 at 7:16am
True, but the choice should not be dictated by the blade. In OX red is far more common especially for long pimples. ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
Posted By: JimT
Date Posted: 11/09/2012 at 9:31am
I am not sure. I doubt it, but we could always ask Nexy (if that's not a secret). ------------- Single Ply Hinoki Club, Founding Member Say "no!" to expensive table tennis equipment. Please... |
Posted By: kolevtt
Date Posted: 11/09/2012 at 3:52pm
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One more great looking blade from Nexy!!! Jim, tell us please, if you have opinion about the speed of this blade compared to T10 made by YIN HE. It is the same thickness, but the outer ply is hinoki. It will be important to know this. Thanks in advance! |
Posted By: JimT
Date Posted: 11/10/2012 at 12:44am
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I do not recall playing with T-10 but it is slower (on FH) than T-8, that's for sure... about the same as W-1 I would say. On BH it is on the top of ALL+. My clubmate (see my post above) played with it a little, putting RITC 563 short pips with 1.5 mm sponge on its BH but it seems that was not the right choice. He commented that BH turned out to be a little too fast for him - he usually plays with medium pips and thinner sponge on his Schlager Carbon. As for FH - he liked that, but then again he is not a defender, he is close-to-the-table flat hitter and blocker. I think the next guy to get this blade should be an actual defender. I put it up for a trade - in Buy/Sale section. ------------- Single Ply Hinoki Club, Founding Member Say "no!" to expensive table tennis equipment. Please... |