Upgrading to heavier blade
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Topic: Upgrading to heavier blade
Posted By: Rollko
Subject: Upgrading to heavier blade
Date Posted: 10/22/2020 at 5:15am
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Hi all, I'm currently using a 92g TB Spirit with Tenergy 05 and fairly light short pips. Sometimes I feel I could do with more head heaviness to support my looping/aggressive forehands. Would getting a faster TBS, let's say 96-97g, be perhaps more useful? Would the difference in momentum, power and stability be increased to any reasonably significant extent?
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Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 10/22/2020 at 3:26pm
| Probably not. 92g is already quite heavy. A few more grams isn't going to make a big difference unless your technique is perfect and you are already optimally transferring power to the ball. |
Posted By: blahness
Date Posted: 10/23/2020 at 2:50am
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Heavier blades will make you slower....the extra power is sometimes not worth getting slow hands...you gotta strike a decent balance. ------------- ------- Viscaria FH: Hurricane 8-80 BH: D05 Back to normal shape bats :( |
Posted By: ghostzen
Date Posted: 10/23/2020 at 7:32am
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92g is a good weight and TBS is a fine blade TBH  might be better maybe working on transfering your weight better on shots to get that extra zip so you can keep recovery to a nice level. Did you have an overall weight for the blade with the rubbers on btw?I don't know too many people who can play with a super heavy setup close to the table because of recovery issues. Like Blah says keeping a good blade balance is key. Having said that you are using a lighter pip.... |
Posted By: TT newbie
Date Posted: 10/23/2020 at 8:45am
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I agree 92g is heavy enough. Maybe you should change the ALC blade for a ZLC one. I used to play with a 88g Viscaria and decided to get a heavier blade. But I also changed to ZLC, now I use a 93g ZLC, it´s more powerful than ALC.
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