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Stiga Allround Classicby Stiga
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Image shows WRB version. The Stiga Allround Classic is definitely a classic! Great for the allround player. Good control and all-around offense for a versatile all-around game. A perfect balance between speed, weight and feel lies behind Allround Classic´s enormous popularity among competitive players, who choose the best. Speed: 73 Customers who purchased Stiga Allround Classic also purchased:
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Reviews of Stiga Allround Classic (38)
The amount of control you have with this blade is insane. The dwell time is also quite incredible. In combination with Andro Rasanter R47, it is a formidable looping blade.
9.7/10 for ALL style. FH: Nittaku H2 Pro, 1.8mm, 45g (0.22g/cm^2), 42.5 degrees (Nittaku), 38 degrees (Shore A). BH: DHS H3, 1.8mm, 43g (0.207g/cm^2), 39 degrees (Shore A). Blade: Stiga Allround Classic, 80g, 158mm x 151mm x 5.1mm (Width x Height x Thickness). Plies: 5 (Wood): Limba - Ayous - Ayous - Ayous - Limba.
Everything has already been said about this blade. Lima-Ayous-Ayous-Ayous-Limba. Pair it with rubbers to suit your play style and it works great, slower rubbers for beginners, and buy faster rubbers as you level up. Sweet spot is on the small side. Wings need slight sanding. This blade has a very similar feel (and the same wood composition) as the Tibhar Drinkhall All-round Classic, the only real difference is that the Tibhar blade, imo, has a nicer feel in the hand, and no sanding is needed.
I have been playing with this blade for a couple of years now at amateur level. I pair it with chinese tacky hard rubbers (e.g. DHS Hurricane H2 on forehand).
For me, this blade is extremelly helpful for developing and improving the technique. It has a great feeling and flex. I can always feel exactly where the ball hit the blade during a shot - essential feedback for improving my shots. Control and consistency is very good, at least in the combination I use with chinesse hard tacky rubber. When the ball goes long or into the net, I can understand what I did wrong with my shot. Again, great feedback for developing technique. With other "faster" blades when the ball goes long I often can't tell what I did wrong. For amateur level, the speed of Stiga Allround Classic is fast enough when hitting the ball with proper technique and enough power (weight transfer and waist rotation). The blade is not fast on it's own, not using your body to put power behind your shots will make the blade seem slow.
Not as slow as its rating given here. You can generate a lot of speed if you utilize its flexibility. But beginners tend to hit flat instead of flexing the blade and that explains the low score here. It can become too fast with tensor rubbers so beginners should stick to harder Chinese rubbers at the beginning.
I am a beginner / developing player and I find this 5 ply very pleasant to play. Amazing control! The blade is not super fast but fast enough to produce good FH shots. Blocking with BH is very controlled, lifts are accurate. The speed of the blade can be offset with faster rubber but I recommend that you maintain the control feel of this blade when choosing the rubber.
The only thing I don't like about the blade is that it produces excessive vibrations. May upgrade later but for now this blade is improving my game and shots quite a bit.
(I will not rate this blades performance only how it felt in my hand as its the most important thing for me personally) Had a chance to compare Master and Legend Stiga Allround Classic with Clipper in both handle variations. In my personal opinion clipper is much better in how it feels in my hand the difference in quality is highly noticeable. The biggest downside for me personally was the weight... It is just too light... and both flared handles have poor feel to them. Even my coach said that they used to be much better made. So if you can find an old one go ahead but if you have only newly made available to you, be aware and try it in your hand first. Do not order new online before holding it yourself beforehand.
Stiga released this blade in 1967. It is a very simple wood compared to the complex blades now in the market. The positives are flex and control. The negatives are slow but you can generate speed with the appropriate set up and gesture. Spin is very good. Blade is very thin but not light. Handle is big and pleasantly shaped. Not for the modern champion but good for average players.
I've had over 10 people try out my set up: Stiga Allround Classic with Hurricane 3 Neo. Most of these people have switched to this blade. They just love the feeling of the handle, the weight balance, and the way it plays. There's just so much control and feeling. It's also light and flexible.
A switch from Butterfly Joo Se Hyuk to Stiga Allround Classic (legend handle)
keeping rubbers the same: DHS Hurricane 3 (black, commercial) and TSP Curl P1R 1.0 mm (red). First of all - huge increase in spin on topspins! As expected here, DHS H3 runs on its native engine - flexible blade, perfect Chinese setup with all profits. DHS H3 is also fast (sometimes too fast) on this blade without any boosters or speed glue (probably due to the hardness of blade). As for technique - closely follow EmRatThich guides - you will progress and enjoy. Defense is a bit more controllable overall and with a shorter trajectory. But it gets some time (at least a month) to get used to the flexible blade after stiff JSH. Notably, Stiga Allround Classic is a hard blade (my partner says it's a lot harder than his DHS 301). Assuming both hardness and flexibility, it can be thought as a tricky combination for a defender. First, you will think its defensive returns are slow and compared to JSH are easier for an attacker. Chopping in the same way as you do with JSH won't give you much spin, there is a big difference. Later you will understand how to benefit from its flexibility in defense too. As you catch the feeling you will get ways to generate more and more backspin on both sides. TSP Curl P1R gains pretty strong attacking capabilities on this blade compared to JSH. It lets you even generate topspin with the pips. It's also very unusual after JSH, which sends the ball in a very straight manner when executing anything other than chop. Opens you a bunch of new stroke types, previously not viable on JSH. But again it gets some time to discover it. I discover it useful even far from a table - you can push back and attack medium height balls like with pips-in rubber. Overall it brings you to a different active game. The only significant drawback this blade has in comparison to JSH for me is smaller head size. At least it's not a perfect fit for a defender. Also, there is a minor disadvantage as a consequence of allround blade & Chinese rubber - it requires more effort and concentration to smash lobs. Maybe generating backspin requires less concentration with JSH too, but not sure. Passive gameplay is not the best for this combination as well as chop-blocking or other low amplitude strokes gameplay. It's just not as controllable as the mentioned JSH in such strokes. Also, the forehand combination of Stiga Allround Classic & DHS H3 emphasizes the direct feeling of the ball with your hand (also a lot lighter weight than JSH). It doesn't do anything itself that you didn't do. Nothing unexpected. As was mentioned here: "This blade gives you exactly what you put into the shot". This helps you to progress and quickly judge which strokes performed well or badly. It's definitely worth to switch from JSH to this blade and I recommend this if you aim for upgrading drastically your attacking skills. Attack more confident and actively both forehand and backhand. It's not an easy switch at all but this pay is worth its outcome. Be ready to be in good physical condition.
Plies: 5 (Wood)
- 2 * Limba 0.5mm - 2 * Ayous 0.6mm - Ayous 2.9mm Width: 158mm Height: 151mm Thickness: 5.1mm Weight: 80g Speed: 7.7 Dwell/Spin: 10 Control: 9.9 Stiffness: 1.8 Hardness: 5.2 Value: 9.2 Overall: 9.8
First blade for me and i played with it 2 years. I think it's a very good blade to begin with because it has indeed very good control and help to develop good strokes.
I think a lot of people complain about the lack of speed but I don't think that's really a problem. When I do proper stroke i can generate really a lot of speed and spin. To illustrate it, i first play with 2 vari spin and it was great. Then i upgrade to Mark V on my FH and it was actually too fast and i had to downgrade back to vari spin (a great idea to do it !). Then i wanted to play tensor rubber so i went for rakza 7 soft 2mm. Also too fast (so yes the blade can be fast) and i had to downgrade to acuda S3 1.8mm. After a while, i played again with the rakza 7 soft and now i can manage it and it's a good fit. What i want to say here is that the blade can follow your progression with rubbers upgrade for a while. About the con : I find that the sweet spot is a bit small. And it can feel a bit dead if you block slow ball without being active in your shot (but that's good, it helps you to learn to be active) But overall nice blade. Good feeling, easy to control but still possible to create some nice power
A blade designated for begginer level. Enough speed, good control. But it has so much vibrations....too much for my taste! And I was expected more from Stiga brand regarding the finishes. Edges are sharp, evem the handle needs some sanding. Overall, I'm not very impressed.
Amazing beginner blade, gives you a great feeling, wich makes me confident in my strokes. I play with a neos sound rubber, a fast rubber, but doesnt have much spin. I was able to compensate for that with the flex of this blade, and using more of my body in the stroke. If you are a beginner you cant go wrong with this one. No chance.
Combined with chinese FH rubber (729 Friendship Origin) and Stiga Genesis M on BH.
I played with this blade for 6 months now and I really have improved a lot, and this blade is one of the main factors. Because of its high Flex, the dwell time is increased a lot, which means great spin, and an amazing Feeling of the ball (I can tell exactly where on the blade I hit the ball, even in short game and serves) People always complain about the Speed, but i think the Speed you can create with Looping is very high. Also, the spin this blade creates with the chinese rubber is insane (Players 2 leagues above me struggle to block my FH Loops). I absolutely recommend this blade for loopers and developing Players who want a good Feeling.
It is a very Good beginners Blade, recommended. Don't play soft rubbers, only medium or Hard. Chinese rubbers is a Good chose, just focus your technique.
Mine 78g, 5.3mm. This blade is thin and light. Tok tok sound. From other review they said it was a good blade but i dont like this blade. Its not the blade fault, just it does not suit my playing style. I use clipper before and they are totally very different character.
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