OOAK Table Tennis Forum

The writer is a almost 4 years active penhold player, plays at least 2 hours everyday since the pandemic.

Here is a buying guide if wanna go penhold, I have tried a whole lot of penhold blades (25+ blades, during a penhold gathering before pandemic)

Imho, penhold should look for a more stiffer blade (more but not too much) with a harder feel (but not a carbon hard dead feel) for beginners

Why? Because the impact and vibrations received is greater in your fingers, so the using a more flexy and soft blade (Let's say the N11s Yinhe) would make all strokes feel less distinct.

So here they are

Blade (You can't go wrong!) :
> Yasaka Ma Lin Extra Offensive :
More control than any of the rest, primarily due to 5 ply.
Less Speed than others, but remember that you will be focusing on technique development.


> DHS PG7 :
Classic penhold blade, currently using it and is in love with it.
If you want to learn penhold pips, get this.
If you want to learn penhold inverted, get this too.

> Stiga Clipper :
If you can get your hands on a pretty old before it changed, your lucky
Great feel is the main advantage of the old ones from the new one

Really on a tight budget?
> Yinhe N9s
IMO, definitely the hardest among the N series. But Great Feel, a very cheap learning blade.

Rubber :
It is called a C-pen, time for Chinese rubbers

FH : (All max sponge (2.15+))
> 999T
This rubber forces you to do a proper stroke, it literally forces you becauss if you don't do one, net is the place your going, or you have so little spin compared to other inverted. (and when executed properly, the ball quality would be VERY high)
And guess what? It's cheap

> Dawei 388A-4
Since it has the same characteristics of 999T except tackiness, it can provide good training (and play)

> 729 Bloom Power
Lower throw angle than the others, but a good and cheap choice
A 729 battle II is also great

RPB (BH) :
> Yinhe Mercury II medium (2.0mm/2.2mm is fine)
A medium sponge with medium tackiness for a medium sized stroke, to learn the stroke obviously

However these were favorites in the gathering I mentioned earlier
> 729 FOCUS III (3) SNIPE (Max)
> 729 FX Lightning
> LKT Super soft

However I noticed a rubber with similar properties with 729 focus III snipe, with a harder sponge
> Mercury III Euro soft (Max)

Now the good thing is you'll take like less than 60$ for a full setup (Except if you're taking the clipper/Yasaka)

And only need to buy 20-32$ worth of rubbers every 4-5 months
(Glue fee included with edge tape lol)

And please get yourself a sandpaper to smoothen edges were your thumb and pointer rest ~ They'll develop painful calluses after hours if the edges are not smoothened, from my experience, I remember clearly it was not a pleasant experience



Sent from my RMX2002 using Tapatalk

_________________
C-pen (1 sided) : DHS Power G7 + DHS 651 (2.2 mm Black) + Red Racket sheet
Currently trying : DHS Sharping
Looking forward to : 729 802-40 (40 deg) + DHS Dragonow

Sandpapering guide :
- Take sandpaper
- Take a cylindrical shaped thing
- Cover cylindrical side with sandpaper
- Start eroding the edge (20°-25° from flat ground, anything more than 45° will hurt you more)
- Feel the grip every 10secs of normal speed sanding
- When comfortable enough, stop
- Take your sandpaper, remove it from the cylindrical thing, sand the area 5 times horizontally and vertically to smoothen

Look at attachments

Sent from my RMX2002 using Tapatalk

_________________
C-pen (1 sided) : DHS Power G7 + DHS 651 (2.2 mm Black) + Red Racket sheet
Currently trying : DHS Sharping
Looking forward to : 729 802-40 (40 deg) + DHS Dragonow