My style is close to modern defence but with long pips (Curl P-1R) on forehand and thinnish inverted (a 1.8 Dr. Neubauer Domination) on backhand, and I re-sized the Defplay to 157 x 149. The oversized blade was way too heavy and unwieldy, and felt like I was trying to swing one of my mum's old frying pans from the family kitchen. However, a few sessions with the oversized blade, out of curiosity, told me that is borderline godly for defensive play, with long-distance chops and fishes hitting the table with an amazing consistency. Re-sized, it became stiffer, more predictable, and faster (probably ALL- or even ALL), and doesn't feel that much slower than my old Applegren Allplay. However, it is significantly spinnier than any other all-round blade I have tried, and it obviously suits pips out and spinny chopping. Indeed, it has great dwell and feedback, although I lessened both and sped the blade up by lacquering it, even when I know that Donic blades tend to play better without varnish and are cheap enough to replace if you do rip off some wood when changing the rubbers. The upshots of the (relative) speed, though, are that long-distance chops tend to reach the other side of the table without a problem and point-ending attacks are made even easier providing you put your body into them Chinese style. As with most defensive equipment (Curl P-1R, Neubauer stuff, slowish inverted chopping rubbers, etc.), full commitment is necessary to maximise the spin from the Defplay as well as to make your shots consistent. Once you have got the hang of the blade, including the flex and the hollow handle, you can really cut the ball in two, and the amazingly comfortable straight handle really suits twiddling, too. However, the fact that the handle is hollow does affect the blade's balance even when it's resized, and if you plan on using the Defplay as a 149 x 157, you'll need to find a way to make it 5-10 grams lighter than your normal set up if you want a shorter transition period.
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Great amount of control and for a really low price but need a fast rubber on it
This blade is meant for rubbers that allow you to create your own spin. Do not use the more frictionless LP such as Grass Dtecs, Bomb Talent, etc. on this blade because the blade is too soft to get reversal.
I heard good reviews concerning this blade so I purchased one for hardbat play. Sealing and some light sanding was needed for the lower wings for added hand comfort. The FL handle felt comfortable and was not to thin. With Yasaka A-1-2 OX pips I found it to be an excellent blade for hardbat. Compared to my Hock blade this one was a bit faster with the same long dwell time for great control. This is a 5ply defensive blade and would be suitable for hardbat, defensive choppers or makes a great control-allround blade with thinner rubbers. I can feel the ball vibrations very well due to the Senso handle. The price is good, the performance is excellent and highly recommend for anyone looking for a very good Def+ blade.
Best of the best. Cheapest of the cheap. I love this blade so much. I was an offensive player who loop on backhand and forehand and recently I want to experience long pimple on my backhand so I bought this Donic Defplay Senso V3. I put Donic Bluefire M2 max thickness on my forehand and Yinhe Neptune 0.6 mm on my backhand. I chop away from the table on my backhand and counter attack and loop on my forehand. This blade is not also good for chopping with long pips but also excellent with topspin and counter attack with inverted rubber. I consistently win my game against good players with this lovely blade and those rubbers. Highly recommended.
This blade is magic tool. I gave two coats of sealer to it and glued Tibhar Evolution el-p on forehand and Milky way Neptune long pimples on backhand. It is perfect combo for me from the first try! I can say Evolution medium spongued rubber works like a dream on this blade. I attack balls which I prepere with pimples. Rubber has perfect touch in short play (guite hard top). Neptune with 0.7 spongue is slow enough for defence spiny balls and attack underspin is guite disturbing and verry easy to do. If you like to topspin or produce some kills it is perfect combo. I am buying another Donic Defplay Senso blade
for spare.
for spare.
For me an allround blade. Perfect control. Fast enough with fast rubbers. Slow enough with def- rubbers or long pimples. And that for low price. Some profs use it
good balance between attack and defence but needs a modern tensor type rubber on f/hand and gets the ball up and down like a Ronaldo free kick when looping with the tightest spinniest looparc you`ll ever see,spinniest chopping blade that I`ve tried and also good for short blocks/chop blocks but not the best spin reversal as the damping effect is evident when blocking,however this helps when chopping with ox rubbers,when you try it you will be hooked
update 2015:heavier copies better with a little more stiffness mine was 87g then I resized it and it is 80g,hard gloss yacht varnish to forehand side for better attacking and to lessen the dwell a fraction makes stronger loopdrives and now trying t05 rubber, watch this space...
further update:I like the T05 1.9 thickness on this blade it can do everything I need,alittle bit less dwell and slightly higher throw angle with more penetration and speed than my previous 05 fx,it does speed up the Dawei ox pips a little ,may switch to p1r ox for more dampening
update 2015:heavier copies better with a little more stiffness mine was 87g then I resized it and it is 80g,hard gloss yacht varnish to forehand side for better attacking and to lessen the dwell a fraction makes stronger loopdrives and now trying t05 rubber, watch this space...
further update:I like the T05 1.9 thickness on this blade it can do everything I need,alittle bit less dwell and slightly higher throw angle with more penetration and speed than my previous 05 fx,it does speed up the Dawei ox pips a little ,may switch to p1r ox for more dampening
Wonderful control blade!
Lightweight despite being a little oversized. Amazing touch and feel.
Let me first emphasize this is not an attacker's blade by any stretch of the imagination! With a fast rubber you can make effective power shots but others do it far better. The bread and butter of this blade is in the defensive game.
Chops, pushes, blocks all shine when performed. Counter top spin loops ala the modern defense style can be performed with great control.
Comfortable flared handle. You take hold of the grip and never want to let it go! As if you just yanked excalibur from the stone... you stand in awe of the innate power now coursing through your hand.
In conclusion: A fantastic blade for defenders, control oriented players, or beginners due to the high control and soft feel.
I will state be mindful of putting overly slow rubbers on this weapon... Yes, they may work for you such as reflectoid and geospin tacky. Even for control oriented games you will eventually begin to feel the lack of power. Anyone other than a beginner should opt for a quicker setup. I can guarantee your game will improve by leaps and bounds simply by slapping a slightly faster rubber on.
Skilled hands capable of wielding this wonderstick will doubtlessly break wills and steal souls!
A number of professional players use this blade. My favorite being the female defender Wu Yang.
Lightweight despite being a little oversized. Amazing touch and feel.
Let me first emphasize this is not an attacker's blade by any stretch of the imagination! With a fast rubber you can make effective power shots but others do it far better. The bread and butter of this blade is in the defensive game.
Chops, pushes, blocks all shine when performed. Counter top spin loops ala the modern defense style can be performed with great control.
Comfortable flared handle. You take hold of the grip and never want to let it go! As if you just yanked excalibur from the stone... you stand in awe of the innate power now coursing through your hand.
In conclusion: A fantastic blade for defenders, control oriented players, or beginners due to the high control and soft feel.
I will state be mindful of putting overly slow rubbers on this weapon... Yes, they may work for you such as reflectoid and geospin tacky. Even for control oriented games you will eventually begin to feel the lack of power. Anyone other than a beginner should opt for a quicker setup. I can guarantee your game will improve by leaps and bounds simply by slapping a slightly faster rubber on.
Skilled hands capable of wielding this wonderstick will doubtlessly break wills and steal souls!
A number of professional players use this blade. My favorite being the female defender Wu Yang.
This is the first defensive blade I've used. The handle is not very comfortable and causes blisters. Chopping with it is good. You can feel a lot of vibrations with this blade. Blocking is not very good though.
Excellent blade for modern defense.
I'm using Xiom OmegaIVPro 2mm in black on the forehand.
I'm using Xiom OmegaIVPro 2mm in black on the forehand.
I usually play with Matsushita Pro Model blade and I recently tried Defplay Senso. This blade is very soft, even softer than Pro model. Senso is lighter (mine is 72 g) and provides amazing control while choping. I would say that Senso is a little bit faster than Pro Model during offensive strokes. The Senso technology is quite efficient : marellous control but hugh power when needed, with lots of sensations... Excellent blade for modern or classical defense (my favorite with Pro Model).
I just love this blade, it's the one that I always comes back to when I've tried other defensive blades. For pure chopping there are better blades but the Defplay brings so much more than just chopping ability. Probably one of the things I like most about it is the maneuverability when playing close to the table which most other defensive blades lack. It blocks and chop-blocks really well! The offense is also very good for a defensive blade, especially at the table and it's very easy to twiddle. It's very light but still with a very good balance.
I can only complain about one thing and that's the thin handle, but that can be fixed by adding some soft-grip or by changing the "grip-blocks". I've changed the grip-blocks to Persson Power AR blocks on one of my Defplays and that worked really well, that's actually the blade I'm playing with at the moment.
To sum it up I would call this blade the "allrounder" of defensive blades, it's simply nothing it can't do well!
I can only complain about one thing and that's the thin handle, but that can be fixed by adding some soft-grip or by changing the "grip-blocks". I've changed the grip-blocks to Persson Power AR blocks on one of my Defplays and that worked really well, that's actually the blade I'm playing with at the moment.
To sum it up I would call this blade the "allrounder" of defensive blades, it's simply nothing it can't do well!
I LOVE this blade. The control is just so high on it, you shots immediately become more consistent, and at least at a low level, that instantly raises your game. I used to go back and forth with faster setups and offensive style, good weeks and bad weeks, losing to people I should never lose to and getting a game off of a guy way out of my league sometimes.
This blade I am consistently beating everyone near my level. I've gone 20 wins 2 losses in my club matches with this blade, 1 loss was to a guy who's like 600 points higher than me and I've never gotten a game off of, the other one was deuces in the 5th game and I beat him the next week.
But I'm beating everyone near my level consistently due to consistency, and the long pips help. But with the placement power, I'm beating a lot of people I've never beaten before, one guy is supposed to be rated 400 points higher than me but I beat him 3-0 just using careful placement.
It's got an oversized head, but the blade it still light, I have a straight handle and it's veeery easy to twiddle.
I'm using Donic Akkadi 1.5mm in black on the forehand and it surprisingly gives plenty of power but with the blade maintains a very high level of control in all areas. Very easy to block with it, chops took a little adjustment coming from smushy sponge tackiness chop, but are very good when I mix in sidespin forehand chops. It still has plenty of looping power a few steps away from the table and of course anything near or over the table gets killed when I feel the need.
Backahnd is Pogo ox long pips, very high control allaround long pips, still missing a few hits with them and my blocking needs work, but that's my fault having only been using long pips for a month or so now after a year away from them. Chopping near or a few steps away from the table on slower balls is very easy and consistent, further back I'm still working on chopping hard hit, low spin balls, sometimes with those I just have to lob them back, which is also easy to do.
Short game and serves are excellent. You can keep everything short and very low chopping over and near the table to bog down their attacking game. No springiness here!
This blade I am consistently beating everyone near my level. I've gone 20 wins 2 losses in my club matches with this blade, 1 loss was to a guy who's like 600 points higher than me and I've never gotten a game off of, the other one was deuces in the 5th game and I beat him the next week.
But I'm beating everyone near my level consistently due to consistency, and the long pips help. But with the placement power, I'm beating a lot of people I've never beaten before, one guy is supposed to be rated 400 points higher than me but I beat him 3-0 just using careful placement.
It's got an oversized head, but the blade it still light, I have a straight handle and it's veeery easy to twiddle.
I'm using Donic Akkadi 1.5mm in black on the forehand and it surprisingly gives plenty of power but with the blade maintains a very high level of control in all areas. Very easy to block with it, chops took a little adjustment coming from smushy sponge tackiness chop, but are very good when I mix in sidespin forehand chops. It still has plenty of looping power a few steps away from the table and of course anything near or over the table gets killed when I feel the need.
Backahnd is Pogo ox long pips, very high control allaround long pips, still missing a few hits with them and my blocking needs work, but that's my fault having only been using long pips for a month or so now after a year away from them. Chopping near or a few steps away from the table on slower balls is very easy and consistent, further back I'm still working on chopping hard hit, low spin balls, sometimes with those I just have to lob them back, which is also easy to do.
Short game and serves are excellent. You can keep everything short and very low chopping over and near the table to bog down their attacking game. No springiness here!
the blade is thin so there is a lot of flex/vibration,if you don`t like vibration forget it the senso handle increases this,i reduced the headsize and filled the handle with expanding foam,the vibration is less now and the blade is a little stiffer but the blade plays well.it is good for long pimple as the outer ply is not so soft and the reversal is strong when blocking,the blade loops/chops/smashes well with sriver el on f/h but any softer and the loop becomes erratic very dependant on throw angle /dwell and softness of rubber
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