Pls, suggest me a nittaku blade

Gawd you guys make me want to get a Violin. When will the EJ bug get smashed. Life is hard sometimes.

I decide to play also today

today had a real good training, I was fit and played very good and intensive for two hours

Nittaku classifies both Violin and Acoustic as Offensive, but this says little about their intrinsic speed. I'd define Violin as ALL+ and Acoustic as OFF-.

This is also in line with igsstern's objective measurements and the chart from the Nittaku 2011 catalog (right click to view the chart in its full size or save it):


In an earlier Nittaku catalog Violin was classifed as about the same speed as Acoustic, but the composition of Acoustic has change since, and I suppose that Nittaku changed their mind about the speed of Violin:

I don't know what blade a "Favourite Pro Cougar" is, but both Acoustic and Violins are completely different beasts than 1-ply Hinokis. Makes me wonder why you want to make such a big change. Just for the sake of trying or are you looking for some specific feature?

Not sure whether I can successfully compare Violin to the 1-ply blades I played with, the reason being that I kept them for my collection after having realised that I don't play particularly well with them.

I have played a bit with Nittaku Miyabi, but I immediately realised that the blade was too thick for me and that I was hitting the ball with the edges almost each time I wanted to do a sharp push or brush-loop. From what I can recall, the Miyabi felt softer and was bouncier and much faster than Violin.

The other 1-ply blades that I played a bit with, and that I still plan to test more extensively, is American Hinoki Ancient Kauri (AK), which is made of very dense wood. I have two, they are about 6 and 6.5 mm. From what I recall, the AK feels hard, quite flexible and not very bouncy, so to some extent similar to Violin. Feeling is different, though. Speed-wise, it it about on par with Violin, too.
[OT: See here for a good review of the AK, and here for a thread in this forum].


Edited by arg0 - 01/10/2014 at 4:19am

Congrats. Looking forward to reading your impressions.

The acoustic is definitely a touch faster than the violin, they are both incredibly well rounded blades with great feeling though. These two blades are a very good composite and well produced!

tabletennis11 wrote: The acoustic is definitely a touch faster than the violin, they are both incredibly well rounded blades with great feeling though. These two blades are a very good composite and well produced!

I am playing with violin very nice feeling indeed and I believe it is allwood 5 ply, why did you say it is composite?


Edited by adishorul - 01/14/2014 at 12:02pm

adishorul wrote: tabletennis11 wrote: The acoustic is definitely a touch faster than the violin, they are both incredibly well rounded blades with great feeling though. These two blades are a very good composite and well produced! I am playing with violin very nice feeling indeed and I believe it is allwood 5 ply, why did you say it is composite?

I've only had a few sessions with the Violin and haven't had the chance to really put it through it's paces.
But I did sneak in a quick service practise session and I really like it for service.
I was able to server spinny double and triple bounce serves which was harder to do with my Nittaku Barwell Fleet and Darker Speed 90.
I found I had to put a little more effort in long fast ball serves especially end to end fast dead balls.

I think I'm going to stick with the violin for now and really work to getting ot know it better.

I'm lacking match fitness and everything that goes with it.
But hoping to get some training in before the coming summer season of comp.

Hello.