Customer review for Yasaka Sweden Extra - Chinese Penhold

Review by takitezy7 for Yasaka Sweden Extra on January 16, 2016

After a 10+ year hiatus, I have been using recreational bats. Shortly after I started using DHS and Butterfly premade bats. They were good but something seemed to be lacking. I went to custom bats with all these new custom blades and rubbers of all sorts from XiEnTing, Stiga, DHS, Yasaka, Butterfly, Donic, Xiom, trying everything I had access too to compare which is the right one for me. Reviews on here and tabletennisdb help alot and give you a sense of direction, but you don't really know for certain unless you try it for yourself. I found this YSE by accident when i was looking for a much slower blade than my Viscaria. The shop owner was so passionate when speaking about this particular blade (built in the famous Swedish wood house in Taranas) that I had to take notice and buy it. Best move I ever made, put 2 yasaka mark v's 2 mm on each side and couldn't be happier. I able to fine tune and calibrate with swinging shots (with Off blade or faster with faster rubbers all you need to do is block or give it a light tap and it will fly, and if you don't get it right it will go into the net or out on the full). That is why this setup is so valuable for me right now in developing proper power/strokes and consistency. It is a slow setup but the fact that you can precisely work on your technique and get better with all variety of loop spins/shots etc., I dare not try anything faster until i have mastered all my shots with this setup. This setup makes it a lot easier for me to brush and do proper top spins with proper technique, than an Off/+ blade with fast rubbers, as it gives such consistent/linear feedback that you know exactly what you did wrong so you can correct it.

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