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Best Blade for RPB style |
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wankhao
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Posted: 01/29/2015 at 2:06am |
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Calling all RPB players, especially experienced ones with high ranking.
What is the best blade for RPB have you used? How heavy is it including rubbers attached on both sides? Also, how long have you playing RPB style? Are you a convert from handshake style? |
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ChichoFicho
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The best blade is Butterfly Paradox R. With this blade even such an awkard stroke becomes easy. It's hard to get one though.
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Darker Speed 70
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schen
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For purely RPB, Hurricane King 3 was the easiest for me by far. Nice medium hard feel and thin at 5.8mm, paired well with Tenergy and not too head heavy in an 86g blade with a hurricane on the FH. However I found the blade's FH side to be a bit too weak in the penhold version and found myself smashing instead of looping to get some pace on the ball (I'm certain the shakehand version is different though).
The Ma Lin Carbon is also a very nice option for RPB as it is also very thin/comfortable at 5.6mm with a solid but soft feel (limba outer ply) and has a great amount of control. I would recommend one weighing at least 84g, otherwise it may be too weak as it is a relatively slow blade. Currently I am using the YEO with T05 and I have played RPB since I first started. The YEO does not have as much control as either of the two blades and throws a bit higher, but packs a lot more speed and is slightly thicker at 6mm.
Edited by schen - 01/29/2015 at 4:04am |
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blackhole
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YEO,
Ma Lin Carbon, Hurricane Hao 2, Nano OC I believe the HH2 is specially designed for RPB style and supposed to be the best one. But I have not used it. |
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A monkey king waiting to capture tigers
Double happiness H301 (Penhold RPB style) FH:Baracuda 2.0 BH:Baracuda 2.0 |
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hhca
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Thin flex blades are in general easy to do RPB at least when you first started. As your skills improve, you may have preferences to different blade stiffness
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cole_ely
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I was always told the yasaka shape was best for rpb. Back in those days, both wang hao and ma lin used yasaka gatien extra.
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Wavestone St with Illumina 1.9r, defender1.7b
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hhca
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I started with YO40 when first started RPB and moved to yasaka soft carbon (ma lin sc), yasaka carbon (ma lin carbon), YEO. Indeed they are all good for RPB. But RPB is only ONE part of one's PH style game.
Eventually I moved away from yasaka blades although yasaka made its name with PH blades and its handles are the most comfortable ones
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jasonz
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Stiga RW5, EB5, YEO, HH2 (656) - generally 5 ply blades
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Stiga Xu Xin Dynasty FH DHS TG -60 Soft BH DHS H3 white sponge pro |
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atomant
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My favourite Cpen ... IF ZLC.
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liulin04
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Order from my newest to oldest blades all for cpen RPB. All were penholds except for jmszlc.
1. Jun Mizutani super zlc 2. Timo boll alc 3. Timo boll t5000 4. Xiom rsm athena platinum 5. Hurricane Hao 6. Acoustic 7. Violin 8. Chinese ULC 9. Michael Maze 10. Timo Boll Spirit 11. Gatien Extra 12. Offensive Classic |
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Imago
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HK2 and HH2. Still, the handle of all pen blades is too short for RPB. 88-90 should be the new standard.
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wankhao
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Hi Schen
How do you rate between YEO and Malin Carbon? |
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wankhao
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Hi hhca,
What blade do you move into, after yasaka? |
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wankhao
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Hi Blackhole
Can you do a quick review of Stiga VPS Infinity for CPEN? |
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schen
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YEO is significantly faster, harder, and stiffer. MLC is softer, thinner, and more flexible with less speed and more control in my opinion. MLC is much more forgiving.
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hhca
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after yasaka blades, I played the following: 1. butterfly primorac carbon 2. stiga carbo 7.6 3. chinese sanwei 1091A soft carbon 4. nitakku lialox 5. cc5 6. cc7 7. maple VII 8. clcc 9. DHS 506 10. hayabusha Zx 11. kanaph 12. arirang |
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bbkon
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how was the experience with the lialox blade? explain please
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hhca
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lialox is very linear. Very good at TPH blocking. very solid at smashing and yet does not feel stiff. Good looping blade too.
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wankhao
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Out of the 12, which one do you feel most at home with playing RPB, not TPB?
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hhca
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none of them hence the reason for the next one. out of these blades, cc5 and arirang are the two blades that are most forgiving for my swing.
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wankhao
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hhca
r u kidding me? out of 12 blades, none of them can satisfy you? |
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liulin04
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@ wankhao, do you need any of my input for any of my cpens?
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wankhao
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Yes, how many cpens have you tried/used.
Which one is your pick? Which one will you keep? |
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liulin04
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Just look at my post on the top
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berndt_mann
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Dear Wankhao,
I was a convert from shakehands to rpb style from 2000 to 2005. For sponge play I used a Nittaku CP-548 blade with Donic Supersonic rubber both sides (both discontinued), and for hard rubber play a custom made Super Hock 6-ply blade affixed with British Leyland rubber made for me by Don Varian. There are reverse penhold backhands and there are other reverse penhold backhands. Do you use your rpb to loop from mid-distance mostly crosscourt, and can you counterdrive and block and flip with your rpb? Which type of rpb you predominantly use might have a bearing on what type of blade you chose. I am currently looking at the Paddle Palace catalog for Winter 2013/2014. The Yasaka Ma Lin Extra Offensive, at $51.95 might be a good bet and should not put too much of a burden on your pocket book. As of February 2015, it might of course cost more. You might think about the Yasaka Ma Lin Carbon, with 5 plies of wood and 2 of carbon, listing for a mere $72.95, but maybe a bit more now. As for choice of rubbers, I haven't a clue, as it's been nine and a half years since I last played in a competitive event, the Ohio State Closed. So many rubbers have come out since then that I've no idea which would and which wouldn't work for the rpb (damn good stroke); I wish I could do it now, but due to a twice broken right arm and dislocated right shoulder nine years ago which pretty much killed my righty TT game, I'd have to learn to play lefty. Fortunately, I'm somewhat ambidexterous, but being ambidexterous and being competitive are two different things. Happy rpbing. Edited by berndt_mann - 02/04/2015 at 11:40pm |
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bmann1942
Setup: Mark Bellamy Master Craftsman blade, British Leyland hard rubber |
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