SPECIAL CHOICE APEX 21
| Everyone's rating |
[Hardness] Medium hardness [Performance] Spin and Speed are excellent. |
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Averages reviews points
- Speed: 9.5
- Spin: 10
- Control: 8.5
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The finest class Kiso Hinoki veneer This super special Apex 21 is compressed by a special high heat pressurization processing process of a 10 mm thick cypress veneer. The advantages of compression are as follows: 1. The vibration during hitting is reduced. 2. Since the section becomes denser than the normal 10 mm single plate, the repulsive force becomes stronger. 3. Thinning makes it easier to play on the table as it is plywood. The compressed veneer has come to be able to hit a powerful drive and a short that can not be obtained with plywood.
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Specifications
- Producer
- Armstrong
- Product code
- 381,382
- Speed
- 10+
- Control
- 9
- Touch
- HARD
- Size
- 162 × 130, 160 × 38
- Material
- Ultra special ion Kiso Hin (Hinoki wood, Single panel)
- Thickness
- 8.7mm
User reviews
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Dodon (Experience: Less than a year) This is a true single-ply!
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2019/07/28
This is a now-rare single-ply blade that I got from a relative. It goes for close to 20,000 yen these days, but according to my relative it was only a few thousand yen about 20 years ago — I was shocked!
As for my impressions using it, the hardness is manageable even for someone picking up a blade for the very first time, drives and pushes and other short-game shots are easy to pull off, and above all, the power on smashes is incredible.
It's pricey, but I think it's something a new student who just joined the table tennis club could keep using for a long time!
Also, it can crack or dent just from a small drop, so please be very careful when handling it.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
Recommended rubber (Forehand) Sriver FX
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Charmin (Experience: More than ２０ years) Armstrong Special Selection APEX 21 KASEGRIP
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2022/07/16
I bought a used one in good condition to use for backhand (reverse-side) play.
I've been using Darker's Speed 90 with max-thickness 10.5mm rubber, which has a very fast release and lets me hit the ball easily, so I'm fond of it and still keep it carefully stored. But wanting to try backhand play, I went looking for another blade and came across Armstrong's Kase-grip blade.
The Kase grip makes it very easy to get the right angle on the backhand, so it's manageable even for someone new to backhand play. It seems to have originally been designed for hitting with the backhand off the forehand side, but about two months after switching from single-sided penhold to reverse-side penhold, I was able to pull off the backhand technique. I also tried the backhand with a reversible penhold blade, but as a beginner I found it harder to get the right angle with that one. When hitting forehand with the Kase grip, the swing ends up more of a wrapping motion, but even when I'm a bit late reacting to my opponent's ball, it still has enough responsiveness to handle it. It's interesting that the 9mm single-ply is compression-processed down to 8.7mm. I'm thinking of buying a second one as a spare.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness little hard
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