DURANGLE [Discontinued]
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[Hardness] Medium hardness [Performance] Speed and Control are excellent. |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed: 7.25
- Spin: 6.75
- Control: 7.13
- Inside carbon racket with excellent total balance
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2 sheets of wood enhances the stability on the outside, carbon in the center material side will support the growth of the ball. By pressing the ball away, is an excellent special materials racket to the total balance firmly sense of the batted ball is transmitted in their own power.
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Specifications
- Producer
- Yasaka
- Product code
- TG-31,TG-33
- Speed
- 10-
- Control
- 8+
- Touch
- Somewhat hard
- Weight
- 78g ± 5
- Material
- Five plywood + two carbon (7 ply wood)
- Thickness
- 6mm
- Lightweight and easy to swing, producing fast shots
- Inner carbon provides balanced hardness between wood and composite
- Stable on net play, ideal for rally and beginner players
- Light impact feeling with significant difference between soft and hard hits
- Requires power to lift backspin attacks
User reviews
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Koh → Sk @ (Experience: ６〜１０ years)
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2018/03/19
Even being an inner-carbon blade, it bounces a lot. Well, it depends on the rubber too. It's been discontinued now, unfortunately.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
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☆ Hiro ☆ (Experience: ２〜３ years) Wish it had a bit more spin
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2018/10/09
This racket flies!!!
But the spin... you need some power to lift backspin balls. Still, it can basically do everything!
Even from away from the table it flies out with sharp shots, though it does catch the net a bit more often.
Pros: Light! Unspecified weight, comes in at 78g (shakehand)
It's got speed! It stays fairly stable whether you're playing back or in a rally (though the net gets you sometimes...) and when it lands it's sharp!
Cons: The feel is... light. ...
Spin → doesn't grab much on its own, but if you really try to put spin on it, it grabs!
Hard to lift backspin.As for serves, you can get spin on them once you get used to it! At first they come out kind of like knuckle balls.
Long serves come in fast!A player named Jintaku apparently used to use this too, so it's worth trying!
I think this suits people who are confident in their power and want a bit more speed.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Rakza X
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Rakza 7 Soft
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Nuo (Experience: ２〜３ years) Very light and great
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2018/01/13
It's very light, so you can swing it effortlessly. Drives and the like are easy too, and spin is easy to generate.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) OMEGA VII EURO
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Fastarc G-1
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ko (Experience: １１〜２０ years) Light! Easy to use!
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2017/09/16
Even when I try other blades, I always end up coming back to the Durangle — I've been using it for over three years.
It's inner carbon, but it doesn't feel much different from wood.
I'd recommend it for rally-focused drive players.
Most are under 85 grams, so I think it's easy for beginners and women to use too.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
Recommended rubber (Forehand) GF PRO
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Rakza 7 Soft
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Shake behind the mold (Experience: ２〜３ years) A blade that's easy to vary power with
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2017/07/25
This blade can do everything. It has good distance and good control, so you can compete from anywhere. If you hit a drive hard enough to feel the carbon kick in, it flies in a straight line with both power and speed and dives right onto the table. On the other hand, a stability-focused rolling drive gives you a nice arc with plenty of spin. Smashes have power when you dig into the carbon, and are stable when you don't. Serves get plenty of spin, and long serves land consistently. The short game is easy to play too.
Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) TeruRyu
Recommended rubber (Backhand) RASANTER V47
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Medium pen back haste (Experience: １１〜２０ years)
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2017/07/18
Since it was discontinued, I bought the Chinese-penhold version — no gram spec, and mine was 72g.
If you look up reviews of this blade, most say things like "it stops really well over the table!" and "when you hit hard you can really feel the carbon kick in and get power!"
That's true, but maybe because mine was a light one, the feel is really hollow. The core might be paulownia or something, because it feels empty. I normally use STIGA blades, so maybe that's part of it, but I don't feel any sense of "oneness" from this blade at all.
So light shots stop in a strange way, and hard shots feel like they're being launched by the carbon alone. For medium-hard shots, like drives lifting backspin or connecting shots, the bounce was wildly inconsistent — sometimes it bounced, sometimes it didn't — with no stability.
I didn't notice it during basic drills, but once it came to matches, all I felt was how hard it was to use.
That said, it's light and doesn't pick rubbers, so if you want a blade that doesn't bounce over the table but does bounce on hard shots, it might be worth a try.
It could suit an unorthodox all-round style fairly well.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Rising Dragon
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Fastarc C-1
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SIMA 1st kouki (Experience: ２〜３ years) An all-round inner carbon
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2016/12/24
I'd like to focus this time on things I couldn't figure out at the time of my previous review.
First, this blade can do everything. It gets decent distance and has good control, so you can compete from anywhere on the court. If you hit a drive hard enough to bring out the carbon, it comes out flat and fast with real power, and drills right into the table. On the other hand, if you go for a more rolling, stability-focused drive, you still get a nice arc with solid spin. Smashes have real power when you bring out the carbon, and are more stable when you don't. Serves bite well, and long serves land consistently too. The short game is also easy to play.
From mid-distance you can still compete since you get decent distance on your shots, though sometimes you'll get out-hit. Lobbing is possible too, and you can go for a counter off a lob if you want.
It can do everything, but power only comes out if you really hit through the ball, so that can feel a bit lacking. I'd recommend it for players with a lot of power who struggle to control it, or for close-to-the-table attacking players.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Fastarc G-1
Recommended rubber (Backhand) Fastarc C-1
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