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Yeah, but you'll get Pong-Karens like Igor telling you you can't use the racket because you've slightly damaged the corner of the rubber.

Iskandar

it's amazing that in my hand is cpen Stiga Cybershape

Just as I expected

first test with Stiga Cybershape!

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I vaguely remembered this post and felt the need to come comment: I found this to be pretty true in day one of Cybershape use. I had a corner meet table edge on a service misfire, rather than on a push, but the outcome was still damage. Not meaningful damage, but certainly damage that I haven't had happen on similar occurrences with normal blades.

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In one day of play, which amounts to two and a half hours of practice, four league matches, and two bonus matches - I'm pretty pleased with this overall. I play with a Seemiller grip and I find that the corners make the transition feel really really good, and that simple stability in a smaller hand like mine seems to make my backhand much cleaner out of the gate. Coach also commented on how good the shape was for the grip and how natural it felt in his hand when he was looking it over.

It's fast, probably faster than I need right now, though I find that it not being forgiving on some of my weaker pips strokes is a positive, because on active play it felt very very rewarding. More play to come for sure, with Tibhar K3 in red and Dornenglanz in black.

Ah and yes, I did have more trouble cutting this nicely than I have with other blades in the past, if I had smaller purpose built scissors it likely wouldn't have been though!

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I took the dimensions and cut one of my Firewall Plus blades to them. I LOST lots of hitting surface. I see not the advantage claimed.

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Blade: TSP 8.5 Balsa: FH Andro Blowfish+ 2.0 (Black);BH Giant Dragon National Team Talon OX(Red)
Blade: TSP 8.5 Balsa: FH TSP Spectol Blue 2.0-2.1 (Black); BH Strahlkraft OX (Red)
Blade: TSP 8.5 Balsa: FH Joola Express Ultra Max (Black): BH Dornenglanz II OX (Red)

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