DHS Fang Bo B2 X - Chinese Penhold
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The DHS Fang Bo B2 X penhold blade has a slightly thicker core giving it more power than the Fang Bo B2.
The carbon fiber provides power and speed and gives easy handling and stable loop.
Fang Bo was the Singles Silver Medalist at the World Championships 2015.
Class: OFF+
Material: Wood + Composite
Ply: 5w, 2a/c
Blade Thickness: 6.0mm
Speed: 96
Control: 63
Weight: 88g
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Reviews of DHS Fang Bo B2 X - Chinese Penhold (17)
(Context: Penhold w/RPB) Upgraded to this blade from the Yasaka Silver All-wood as my first carbon blade. I am currently using this blade paired with Skyline 2 Provincial Blue Sponge(40 degrees) and Hurricane 8-80(38 degrees) and after playing with this setup for around 3 months I can say for sure that the speed of this blade is not for the faint of heart. When I first got the blade I used Battle 2 on the forehand and it was uncontrollable to say the least; especially when transitioning from an all-wood blade. However, after playing with it a bit more and changing the rubber to Skyline 2, it definitely got easier to control but still paled in comparison to the control of my previous blade albeit it was still about twice as fast. The stiffness or lack of vibration of the blade also makes this blade a bad choice for beginners as it provides very minimal feeling when paired with rubbers 50(38 dhs scale) degrees and over. However, for more advanced players who have good technique and power, this blade is everything you could ask for, safe and spinny loops have a high degree of spin and good speed, kill loops are borderline unreturnable, and active and passive blocking can be performed easily, counter topspins and counter loops will almost always be rockets, but dropshots require good touch to get a second bounce(do keep in mind that these properties are with the rubbers I am currently using). If you are an intermediate player looking to get this blade, I would recommend getting a backhand rubber that is 47.5(37 dhs scale) degrees or lower and a forehand rubber 52.5(39 dhs scale) degrees or lower to make the blade easily controllable on both wings, but for more advanced players, I believe you'll find this blade most enjoyable when paired with harder rubbers that min-max for speed and spin. Beginners should steer away from this blade as it requires you to know how to play. It will not teach you anything nor give you much room for error due to its lack of vibration.
I usually like this kind of blades, Limba + innerforce but not this one. Lacked everything, to stiff not good control at all, slow too.
What a blade! This is currently my main blade along with Viscaria. It's slightly slower but has significantly more control. Feeling is also great - hard to compare to Butterfly as I feel like Butterfly blades have very specific feel that is hard to describe (and I guess that what people pay for). Even though it's slower than the Viscaria it plays better with hard Chinese rubbers which I still don't really understand because I've always assumed more speed = stiffer = better ability to compress harder sponge, but that's just the fact imo. The throw is also very high, I had to adjust a bit after Viscaria because my shots were going long. Spin is also outstanding presumably due to limbs outer layers, significantly more spin than the Viscaria. Fortunately adjusting was also very easy because of the great feel this blade has. Currently playing with Provincial H3 neo H40 blue sponge fh and H8-80 H37 bh.
After 10 Years searching this is the only blade I am now happy to to grow old with.
Great blade.
But i would say speed is not 9.3 is around 8.8-9.
Control is amazing.