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LKT Instinct and FOCUS I FH and BH.
You can see the poor state of my rubbers, specially at the black rubber picture. Daam polen from the pine trees.

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LKT Instinct 729 Focus I 2.2 729 Focus I 2.2

My first and only 1-ply hinoki jpen Champion Bipa 9.5mm w/ CJ8000 on 2.2 Quattro 35°. I'm probably going to slap on outlaw or macro era once I feel I'm ready for it. Anyway enjoy the pics!







I can't really complain about the grains for the $20?~ish I paid ($12 + shipping from presports, or something like that) I can't wait to purchase another 1-ply jpen to compare it too. Whenever that is... ¬_¬

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Cheap Champion Bipa 9.5mm 1-ply JPEN
FH: Focus III Snipe BH: Dr. Evil
Yasaka Hasha Deluxe 10mm 1-ply JPEN
FH: Inspirit Quattro

Hi, this is my equipment: Darker 7P-2A CPen with Friendship 802-1 1.8 black and Butterfly Bryce FX 1.9 red.

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Blade: Darker 7P-2A CPen
Rubbers: Friendship 802-1 1.8 (black), Butterfly Bryce FX 1.9 (red)

Sorry, the quality is not good cuz I took it with a phone camera.

My Nittaku Shakehand Bat. 729 FX 2.2 Rubbers on both sides.






My Butterfly Penhold Bat. The backside is painted green.

729 Hero 2.2 Black Rubber


755 Red OX Rubber.


Will be great if someone could identify the two bats I have

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Yasaka Musashi JPen, Palio Macro Era 42.5 2.0mm, 122g
Butterfly Korbel FL, FH: Mark V XS 2.0 Red, BH Mark V M2 Max Black. 196g
Nittaku ??? SH Blade with 729 FX 2.2 on both sides, its only 30g without rubber [Retired]
Butterfly ??? PH Blade with 729 Hero 2.0 Black on FH, 755 OX Red on RPB. [Broken]

Blade: Butterfly Defence Alpha (straight handle)
FH Rubber: RITC 729 Tackspeed (black / 1.0 mm orange sponge)
BH Rubber: Globe 979 (red / 0.5 mm white sponge)

I received my new setup around 6 weeks ago:

Blade: Donic Epox Power Allround (A slightly more offensive move away from Epox Control)

Forehand: Donic Vario Big Slam 2.0mm (Another slightly more offensive move away from Vario Soft)

Backhand: Donic Slice 40 1.5mm (I decided to stick with this old faithful rubber - I doubt I'll change this unless forced to through discontinuation of product)


Initial impression
On the whole, I'm very pleased with this bat. My game is definately more consistent when forehand looping, but it's the flat attack element of my game which is most improved. There is a very noticeable and pleasing "crack" heard when forehand smashing. With the added speed I 've found that my forehand chop is struggling a little (more practice should resolve this). Overall though I feel that the slight changes I've made have been for the better with improved overall performance and improved results. Regarding the durability of the big slam. I don't play all that frequently but there is already some deterioration of the rubber at the edges (the bat edges are taped). I don't recall any major contact with the table, so it's definately something I'll be paying attention to. Not the most expensive rubber out there, but at £30 a sheet, I don't want to be changing my rubbers any more than (at the most) once a season!

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When your wife finds a receipt stating that you've spent £30 on a rubber, be ready to do alot of explaining!

Played: approx 1984-1994, 2008-Present.
Currently playing at: Crusaders, Lincoln, UK.
Set up: Blade: Donic Power Allround FH: Donic Vario Big Slam 2.0mm BH: Donic Slice 40 1.5mm.

Just got my new bat today from presports, will be trying it out tomorrow .

Its a butterfly Korbel FL handle, with Yasaka Mark V XS 2.0 Red as my forehand and Yasaka Mark V M2 Max Black as my backhand.

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Yasaka Musashi JPen, Palio Macro Era 42.5 2.0mm, 122g
Butterfly Korbel FL, FH: Mark V XS 2.0 Red, BH Mark V M2 Max Black. 196g
Nittaku ??? SH Blade with 729 FX 2.2 on both sides, its only 30g without rubber [Retired]
Butterfly ??? PH Blade with 729 Hero 2.0 Black on FH, 755 OX Red on RPB. [Broken]

Those air bubbles might cause harm to your rubbers.

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Blade: Avalox P500 FL
FH: LKT Black Diamond
BH: Palio HK1997 Biotech Biotech(36-38)

oh really?? I better take the plastic sheet out and re apply again then.

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Yasaka Musashi JPen, Palio Macro Era 42.5 2.0mm, 122g
Butterfly Korbel FL, FH: Mark V XS 2.0 Red, BH Mark V M2 Max Black. 196g
Nittaku ??? SH Blade with 729 FX 2.2 on both sides, its only 30g without rubber [Retired]
Butterfly ??? PH Blade with 729 Hero 2.0 Black on FH, 755 OX Red on RPB. [Broken]

I just ordered Yasaka Musashi from presports. I took the heaviest out of the bunch (84g). Here are pics of the naked blade with the help of my friend's DLSR (watermarked with his nick).











Going to stick PME 42.5 2.0mm on it later . When I feel more comfortable, I might post a review about it too!

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Yasaka Musashi JPen, Palio Macro Era 42.5 2.0mm, 122g
Butterfly Korbel FL, FH: Mark V XS 2.0 Red, BH Mark V M2 Max Black. 196g
Nittaku ??? SH Blade with 729 FX 2.2 on both sides, its only 30g without rubber [Retired]
Butterfly ??? PH Blade with 729 Hero 2.0 Black on FH, 755 OX Red on RPB. [Broken]

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Blade : Xiom Amati Off-
BH : Milkyway Neptune OX
FH : Milyway Saturn 2.2

My racket...

Blade: Donic Persson Powerallround, concave (Allround+)

FH: Sriver G3 1.9, red (I love this rubber... )


BH: Tackiness D 1.9, black



The backhand is a little too fast. I want now to play more defensive, but long pimples are not good for blocking and counting and attacking - and I need the possibillity to attack. Now I have to look. I will try a Donic Slice 40 1.2, but this is as appropriate too defensive . Maybe I should try a 1.5mm rubber or short pimples...

We 'll see
Greetings, tabletennis_germany .

Nice blade there and welcome to the forum.

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1-ply Hinoki Club
Violin/Acoustic Clan
Recreational/Club Player
Local Press Club (Journalists) Champion

The speed of a Rhino and the power of a Gazelle!!!!
http://xtrariter.blogspot.com

Not a great pic, but here are some of my beauties.

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1-ply Hinoki Club
Violin/Acoustic Clan
Recreational/Club Player
Local Press Club (Journalists) Champion

The speed of a Rhino and the power of a Gazelle!!!!
http://xtrariter.blogspot.com

Here it be. Still getting used to it after switching from inverted sponge, but I'm tethered to it now so we'll have to get along. Tried playing with the old paddle after spending a week with this one and couldn't do it; not sure if that's a good or bad thing.




You can see in the last one where I hit the table quite hard while trying to chop; went right through the Neubauer tape but I had a normal layer underneath and I don't think any damage was done.

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Custom Blade 'Hard Justice' w/ Yasaka Cobalt a
Tatco Hornet w/ ATP Leland Era