Looking for specific blade

I'm trying to find a blade with

-koto outer (or anigre)

-medium flexibility

-medium hardness

-ALL to OFF- speed

-no carbon

-very good control

because my competition blade has long been discontinued and I destroyed my penultimate one recently

pls help

Fuga has the same composition as P500. I only tested P500 briefly and they play somewhat differently but easy to switch from one another. P500 seems to have a bit more catapult and maybe a notch faster. Fuga's handle (FL) is less comfortable to me than P500 (ST).

do you mean Samsonov Pure Wood?

So... I am in the middle of testing. Until now I have mainly been testing the sweden extra, force pro and powerplay.

Sweden Extra is very nice close to the table, but being quite soft, thin and flexy, it does not handle higher forces too well, so harder rubbers do not pair well. Very good spin and control with EL-P though. But anyways, the blade is too slow for me.

Powerplay is suprisingly high throw and bouncy. The looping arc seems excessively high with high throw rubbers. Definetly needs harder, controlled rubbers. Overall, the blade seems a bit too hard for me though.

So far my favorite is the Force Pro Blue. It just has the best balance of hardness and stiffness. Despite having limba outer ply, the touch is not too soft and fine contact looping is perfectly doable. Pairs well with H3N, and I don't have control problems even with it being 41 deg which is usually too hard to control on other blades. I just had problems with BH blocks going too far sometimes, maybe slower rubber on BH would help.

Have not really tested Clipper and Force Pro Black, but after some hits with them I guess they would be too soft, too bouncy, and too stiff for me. Also, the HH2 I tested before is a bit too hard, flexy and slow for 40+.

Well then, back to testing

Makelele wrote: Looking forward to your comparison between Clipper, Tibhar Force Pro Blue and Tibhar Pro Black

Sure, here you are

Stiffness: Clipper >= Force Black > Force Blue

Hardness: Force Blue > Force Black > Clipper

Clipper is clearly the softest, and probably the stiffest, but Force Black is almost as or equally stiff. Both Clipper and Force Black are more suited to direct play, block and counter close to the table. Due to their softness, they pair better with medium soft to medium rubbers. Force Black is a bit harder and thinner, more compact and thus works a bit better away from the table. If you want to loop with either of them, use medium rubbers with high arc. Something like bluefire m2 or fastarc c1 works well.

Force Blue is more suited for looping than the others. It is thinner and harder. Overall feel is mild hard.

This blade is clearly the winner for me. It beats the others in looping department due to better flex while still being stiff enough for any direct play techniques. And it pairs well with soft AND hard rubbers. I have tried H3N 41 deg untuned, which I still was able to control reasonably. Now I use H3 non-neo prov blue sponge 39 deg boosted with seamoon, which pairs very nicely. On backhand I tried many tensor rubbers with 42.5-45 deg, which is not too soft on this blade. However, backhand blocking was too fast. One solution would be to reduce sponge thickness, but instead I have found a perfect match in my favorite underrated rubber, Yinhe Mercury II soft (~42.5 deg). It is fast enough on this blade and spin, arc and control are better than for example R42.

I have mainly been practicing with a chopper (switching from LP to SP now), so looping heavy underspin is no problem with this setup (with ABS balls at least)

The biggest issue is that I struggle to find a weakness with this blade :P