blade design in Nexy!! - SPEAR - testers Selected

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   Dear fellow friends, 

I think table tennis business seriously relies on how many friends you have. And now I decided to come here more often, and to share more about how I run my brand Nexy.

Currently, I'm not very good at English, and also not free enough to reply all the questions, but I will try as much as I can to share what I am doing with the people here.

So, this article can not be done in one day, and I will keep on writing day by day until I can complete the whole story of one blade; Nexy's SPEAR.

1. What's the goal of SPEAR

Table tennis has been my number one job for many decades.
I started it when I was 10 from my father, and I really liked it.
But my father did not enjoy much playing with little son, because it took money and time.
At that time, my house was not rich enough to support my curiosity, and I could not keep on attending piano lesson, and probably my father could not be able to take me to table tennis gym often.

But he was really good player, and I could learn some basic skills from my father.

It took more than 10 years for me to become better player than my father since that time.
He promised to buy one bicycle for me, and I wanted it badly, but could not win any game until I become a university student.

Any way, I became a student, and I joined table tennis club there.
And there I had to change all things, because all the basic skills was not right.
It was not easy process, but I went through it.
I once tried to become a defensive player, and I could get chances to test many kinds of blades and rubbers.

Probably, this story will not be interesting for you. But I just want to say that those blades are not short term work.

Conclusionally, even though I'm not a professional player, nor a professional carpenter or something, but I can safely say that I've been crazy about table tennis for very long time.

In 2005, when I started to run table tennis business, I found out that some day I will run my own brand.
I was quite sure it's not only about money and tradition.
Once I'm sure I can satisfy with what I make, then I can satisfy many others, and that will lead my brand successful, that was what I could be sure at that moment.

And I started to learn many blades' structure and fuction.
It was not very hard, because I really liked it.

So, all the blades made in Nexy are meant to satisfy me.
I don't care about category.
5-pl, 7-ply, carbon, arylate carbon....new products in each year...
...that's very far from the way I run this business.

Once I start, I never stop before I'm satisfied.
So, most of the blades are alike in some ways.

Fast, Spinny, well balanced, good feeling.
Maybe it sounds very cliche, but surely these are the puropose for my blades.

Seemingly (more over meaninglessly) too much ideal is what I'm struggling to get with my blades.
And I don't think that's not possible to achieve.

Of course there is a general course I experience whenever I produce blades.
I really liked it, but after 6 months, I found out better one will be possible.
And the best blade becomes less perfect, and it gives its way to the next new blade.
But at any cost, I release a blade when I really like it at that moment.

Therefore, the purpose of the up-coming new blade SPEAR is very the same as other Nexy blades.

Fast, Spinny, well balanced, good feeling

2. Basic Idea about SPEAR

If you look at my before blades, you will know that I've been recently focusing on SPRUCE, which lies under the surface wood.
I used spruce for Dexter (http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=580 )
and Color (http://nexy.com/shop/step1.php?number=582 )

This wood is very attractive. With this wood, you can create better speed without losing wooden feeling to carbon layer.
And this spruce ply makes big sound and good feeling when you hit the ball.

But when this ply comes too much close to the rubber, than the sound and feelings are too much powerful, and the ball will not be spinny much.

So, this material needs to come in the right place, which means that I need to find the ideal thickness for the surface wood.

It's not possible to decide exact thickness for all the surface materials.
I kept on testing....and I found out Japanese Hinoki needs to be thicker than Limba or Koto, when I want to hamonize this with Spruce.

Any ways, the first idea has come from this spruce wood.

Actually, I finished all the studies related with this material, from my experiences of Hurricane King, Offensive classic, Ebenholz and several other blades.

But then again, I thought why all those blades are not similiar to Stiga's clipper CR or Butterfly's Korbel or SK7?
I think most other designers were facinated too much by this sprus material's lightness and speed.
So, they might not be interested in producing a blade deep and soft. Probably they thought they need to make the blades light and fast.

So, there I started to think about this blade SPEAR.

When you use a SPEAR, the blade of SPEAR should go through a target, to harm.
Likewise, when I name thie blade as SPEAR, I thought that....when you play with this blade SPEAR, you need to be able to feel that the ball goes through your blade, just like a spear goes through a target.
I mean you need to feel that your blade hugs the ball so deep into it, that you think the ball becomes a spear into a target.

I thought it's possible.
Because all this deep and soft feeling can not be too much, when I harmnize this with SPRUCE's lightness and speedy character.
There maybe I can get an ideal fuction.

Ok, that was the basic idea I started from.

I will write more tomorrow.

Just keep on waiting before I finish this story.
I hope you can enjoy my writings.