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It pains me to hear this. I was looking forward to September/October and the possibility of getting my hands on Victas Offensive blade.
But if Victas quality dropped significantly..

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Indeed very sad and dissapointing to read how Victas chooses for short term profit, while loosing their long term reputation as a highly qualitative product. My two VKM blades from 2012 are of splendid quality! It's a good thing that TT-japan cancels orders due to quality problems and complaints.

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I'm waiting a new Victas Koji Matsushita from TT-Japan.
Now they accept new orders for this blade again.

Hope it's of a good quality.

Anyone had any word on the quality control problems yet?

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I've just talked directly with TSP about this, and the quality control issue mentioned by the shop is simply not true.

It is true that they had problems delivering Koji Matsushita blades, but the reasons for that are:
1. all Matsushita blades are made by hand in Japan. Therefore the production takes a lot of time, which means production capacity is very limited.
2. They have very strict quality control - the Japanese standards are much higher than in Europe, which restricts the number of blades which they can get on the market is further.
3. Since Koji Matsushita is a very popular player in Japan, the demand for this blades is very high.

So either the shop got the wrong information, or something got lost in the translation to English somewhere.

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I have a VKM.
Perfect in any way...
Cheers
Geddk

If you are referring to my post above...I had one of the Koji Matsushita blades on order with tt-Japan.net and they cancelled it. Here's the text of the cancellation email:



 

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I just ordered one from Japsko
He (Lars Borg) told me about a nev Victas smooth rubber (Victas 401). Made for aggressive defensive play, with soft top sheet (tacky) and a hard sponge. Someone said he could get more spin from this than from any Tenergy, and it is still fast enough to loop with. Japsko will have it in 1.5, 1.8 and 2.0 mm. To me it sounds a lot line Palio Thors but slower.

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The VS>401 is an excellent rubber, I use it in 2.0 on the VKM. Spin is superb and in my opinion, speed is still good enough for loops, drives and whatsoever. Since it doesn't have a lot of catapult, the rubber is excellent to control.

I will ask you more about it in the thread in Inverted rubber-section, please answer there

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Yesterday my blade arrived. So Beautiful! Actually a Little smaller than Joo Se Hyuk, but then again Koji is smaller than Joo
I glued a red Dawei 388D with 1,0 mm sponge to one side and a black Victas >401 2,0 to the other side. Too bad I can' try it today...

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It is indeed a beautiful blade and you'll find out that the handle is very very good and comfortable.

Hope you like the performance of VKM too, cause it is very different from JSH blade. It should have about the same size as JSH, maybe a little larger even. I measured 156, 5 x 165. You definitely need to spend some time with VKM to be able to adjust, especially for FH. You will see that VKM is a slower at low impact, but you will notice that you can use more 'gears'. It is softer compared to JSH.

Altough I prefer softer and lighter sponges, I am very curious about how the Victas >vs 401 rubber works on it.

BTW: VKM also works great for chopping with thin or spongeless rubbers.

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I will try it as a more defensive setup at first. Perhaps I will try a thinner sponge or no sponge on BH. I will probably try it with Thors and I will try >401 on a Joo-blade. I thought I had setteled down, but finding myself just too curious about this blade
And now I have like 20 new combinations to test before I am satisfyed (I glued a SP Globe 889-2, same as Wang Yang uses, to the slow Grass20 sponge, and the ball almost do not bounce at all on that combination glued to Joo, more about that later).

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I'm not sure if Thor's is a good idea in this case... the hard sponge (and only max thickness!) will likely mask a lot of the good feel of the blade.

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