Sami wrote:
I wonder if there are any non oversized slow defensive blades for chopping away from the table with occassional attacks .The reason is changing from oversized to regular sized blades makes you cut the rubber again.Once you feel the regular sized blade is not ok , you cannot use the same rubber on the oversized blade again, so you need to find out a better non oversized blade to suit your game .
I wonder if anyone has had this problem and has come to find decent slow defensive chopping non oversized blades .
I am afraid the very premise of this thread is flawed.
Because if you want to be spending most of your time away from the table chopping, then you want an extra large blade, something like 180 mm X 180 mm and not a non-oversized blade.
But if your higher priority is attacks then by definition you are NOT a chopper.
It seems to me that you are not really sure yourself whether you want to be chopper or all around player.
If you play 50% at the table attacking & if you play the rest 50% away from the table chopping then you are not a chopper but you are an all around player (which is perfectly fine if that is what you choose to be for whatever (wrong) reasons) .
But even if you at least only 30% attack, moving close to the table and 70% away from the table chopper , then you want to design your racket for chopping FIRST and then attacking & not other way around.
Yes aren’t we all are looking for that magic racket (may be fully automated) that will do all the work & you will be 2900 player. But you have to sacrifice something but if you are a chopper, your emphasis on your design would weigh more towards chopping and not occasional attacks (unless of course you can chop at 2999 level as a chopper) . Of course if you read the package of any rubber or blade, they will claim their product can do it all.
I know how to have a custom blade made to this dimension & I can get long pips to this side but all major manufacturers have refused to make me an inverted rubber to this size because I am a low level 2100+ amateur hacker (If a pro asked, it would be ready in 10 minutes. they gave excuse something like they need to make a new mold plate or something like that & one Chinese manufacturer said they will do it if I order 1000 pieces LOL)
Nonetheless I am 200% sure that you want the largest possible blade for maximum possible dwell time (for chopping & lobbing) for maxuimum possible back-spin for chopping (and top-spin for lobbing and counter-looping) and you also have more time to get to the ball (for me, especially now that I am older & lost 30% of foot speed). Only smooth wing two sided looping or short pips out attackers need a regular or compact blade and I feel even a close to the table older frictionless (both pips or anti) blocking style player needs at least a semi-large blade if not a large or super-large blade.
Both Tibhar & Joola make some super-large pre-assembled toy rackets with unapproved low grade inverted rubber both sides . I removed smooth rubber one side & put a long pips on that side. The amount of back spin on my chops was just ridiculously high & I was even able to lob with lot more top-spin from the smooth rubber side which had crappy smooth rubber (pre assembled) on other side.
I am not going to comment about pros as I know that would be an argument I cannot win
OH BTW I forgot to mention. All my blades are custom blade & large & carbon on inverted side ONLY (fast) and no carbon on long-pips side (slow)
Currently I am using a Giant Dragon Super Balsa 2 customized as above.
If anyone knows of any quality inverted rubbers that would fit on a 180 mm X 180 mm blade, please let me know. Then I can go ahead & make a custom blade as above.