blade design in Nexy!! - SPEAR - testers Selected

 

Rubbers of course will affect it. I hit with Xtend HS twice, once on a BTY Amulart and I thought it was mid speed controlled offensive on that blade. I even won a sheet of Xtend HS in a club comp and gave it away, thinking it was a tad slow for my FH. Haha. That guy I gave it to is probably still laughing.

 

I have to second and third Nexy's statement that the SPEAR can accomodate pretty much whatever inverted rubber you prefer. W6 made Outlaw slow down and land more, and SPEAR takes this to a new level. I slapped on a $7 rubber and it landed over 90% of openers in match play, which won or led to winning points. Can't ask for more. That is one important stat and possible more meaningful than anything else I can describe about SPEAR. I will try to be alittle more detailed once I get more hits with it. Other mebers here may beat me to the punch on this, but cool, more the merrier.

rawrtje, the quick answer is no. It's not a matter of pure speed slow down, but of some rebound reduction and increase in control for a specific slow speed/slow to medium spin topspin shot.

 

Not slowed down to sluggish, just slowed down some. W6 did this and made Outlaw a looper on slow strokes with some control, and SPEAR makes Outlaw even more controlable on slower strokes. Not like SPEAR makes Outlaw a Flextra like slowness, just makes it able to manage the slow strokes better than W6, which did well in that department. On my opening shots, loops with SPEAR are not slow, jsut slower than TBS. I can even make a 40 deg sponged XP 2008 (that $7 rubber (with postage) I was talking about) make high percentage openers with acceptable pace. On BH, the XP 2008 on SPEAR is plenty fast. On the TBS, slow speed strokes to make topspin (like when you want to use a slow stroke and make a controlled topspin return that has some topspin, but not overwhelming spin or speed like you use in a loop, kinda like a defensive topspin or slowish medium loop if that makes any sense) were a little too fast and difficult to control. The W6 made this kind of slow stroke low speed/spin topspin possible at a higher percentage and SPEAR makes that shot even more high percentage.

Nice Jpens tho'.