Best Looping Blade

I'm looking to get back to the basics and revisit my FH/BH topspin technique. I've used a number of blades incl. Timo Boll Spirit, Viscaria, Innerforce ALC or Primorac Carbon, and they proved useful at blocking and punching but not so much at spinnig the ball.

I've settled on the Tibhar K3 rubber (both sides) that I'm finding spinnier and more controllable compared to most other rubbers (incl. D09C and D05) due to the soft topsheet that really seems to grab the ball well.

Understanding this is a rather hard low-throw rubber, I think I'll need a flexible blade to pair it with.

I'm currently testing Donic Waldner Carbon Senso and the feeling and touch is good, but the small head and relative stiffness don't seem to make my open ups very effective. I'm also open to non-carbon blades (as long as they're sufficiently flexible) as carbon (especially ALC) can lack feeling at times for me.

Any ideas?

If there´s a blade specially made for looping, Timo ZLF is this blade. I just didn´t stick to it because of its low speed. 

Agree, both Acoustic and Violin are excellent for looping.

I once used Violin with Tenergy Hard and it was a monster looping blade.

From Doraemon;

" I read all the comments after my last post.

Let me clarify a bit, I wrote those comments answering the question "what do you mean by stability with the new ball", therefore I described Korbel as being a bit flexy for easier blocking.

Now, I don't mean to say Korbel is a bad blade, I have previously used it for years.  It is a looping machine, but like I mentioned previously, in the 40+ plastic ball era, it is harder to block with Korbel, compared to a 7-ply allwood blade (like Clipper, for example).

Now, does it mean 7-ply allwood blade is better than Korbel?   Depends on your style of play.   It is easer for me to block using Clipper, but my loops are better with Korbel (given the same stroke).  Clipper is a good looping blade as well, but it is easier to loop with Korbel.   On the other hand, it is easier to block with Clipper.

So there are always two sides (positive and negative) of using a certain blade.  It all depends on your style of play.   I used to be an all out 2-wings looper, so I liked Korbel in the past.   Currently, I am more allround (as I am old now):  looping if necessary, but also push, block and smash.  So a stiffer blade is better for me now. "

This is probably the best response on the thread so far, to be honest, as much as I sympathize with the desire to return to basics.   Looping has far less to do with the blade than the rubber and the main reason why those composites currently exist is to create blades that are fast *and* *thin* enough to loop with if one prefers to use slimmer blades for looping, but want the stiffness and speed of faster blades.  Pure spin based rationales are pretty much dead in the modern game, spin is mostly a consistency enabler.  Moreover, broadly speaking, spin is a function of the *rubber*, touch/feeling/speed is a function of the blade (there is interaction, but I can defend what I wrote fairly easily).  If you have already chosen K3 as the rubber, the choice of blade only matters to the degree you can feel the ball and feel that your changes in technique can influence changes in the ball (under the pressure of match conditions ultimately of course).

I like to read that. Even before the plastic ball, I wanted speed over spin, just enough spin to land on the table and no more. Was I a man ahead of his time?