Mikami Kasagi's profile
| Gender | Male |
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| Age | U70 |
| Experience | 4〜5 years |
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2019/12/06
The Swat ST was also easy to use, but compared to that, switching to a Chinese-penhold carbon blade gave me better speed, spin, control, and feel across the board.
Holding it loosely between the index and middle finger in an "Oji serve" grip, with a balancer attached to the head, and pulling the swing up like a pinch back under the chin, I can get plenty of spin, a low and sharply curving bounce, and a powerful ball.
Serves are easy to put heavy spin on, chiquita is easy too, and backhand flicks come out strong. With Super Kim rubber on, stops can be controlled right up to the edge of the net, and I can use both strong and weak touches. Out of the 12 rackets I've used so far, this is the most usable one. It produces more powerful shots than the Arrest Carbon. A low-priced racket I'd recommend.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Little soft
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2019/12/06
The feel is similar to the Pachi-Suma II, but the ball sinks into the sponge and grips several steps stronger — hit it thick and it actually grips better than inverted rubber, making it easy to put spin on. Drives get plenty of spin too, and the bounce comes off low with a big curve, letting you hit a powerful ball.
Serves bite well and it's easy to keep them short.
The chiquita is easy to do too,
and you can flick hard on the backhand as well.
Even though it's short pips, you can use it just like inverted rubber, and pairing it with a Super Kim on the other side, switching between hard and soft shots, has become my strongest combination.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket Swat Carbon
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2018/03/18
I switched from inverted rubber to this for large-ball play. I'd been using Pachisuma II, and for a short-pips rubber it was easy to get spin on,
but since it was max thickness, it had speed but flew too much and went long, and I also had a lot of net misses — control was hard.
So I bought the Cho Gokuusu, since it's described as a tacky rubber.
It's a tacky rubber, hardness 30, with a sponge under 1mm, but it feels soft, and since the ball sits on it well, I can easily lift balls that land short under the table,
and for topspin drives, since it's large-ball, I can pull the ball in close without it pushing back, and I stopped getting overshoots even on fast contact points in the short game.
Maybe because the sponge is thin, even hitting hard doesn't send it flying too far, and I can also swing big on serves.
Pushes and stops are also easy, and I can use the chiquita by brushing it the way you would with inverted rubber.
Before, the rebound was too strong and pushing was hard, but now I feel like I can also attack different courses.
Now that the ball sits better on the rubber, I've found a rubber that's easy to control and easy to hit with, and I'm satisfied.Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little soft
Recomend racket HI LARGE Ⅱ
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2017/10/21
Because the ball releases so quickly, I used to net a lot of shots with the brushing stroke I used on inverted rubber, but just by rolling the blade inward I could produce a ball with a proper arc instead of one that flew too flat, and on the backhand, bending my wrist toward my opponent made it easier to put spin on the drive. Spin is easy to generate, so serves, lifts, chopped pushes, and stops are all easy to use. I play with the large ball, so I can build up plenty of torque on the drive, and it started producing powerful shots. It takes some getting used to before you can use it well. Hitting it with the flat, striking style typical of short pips gives you speed but makes control difficult. As for sponge thickness, Max was easier to control than Thick.
Overall Speed Spin Control Hardness Little hard
Recomend racket TS Large
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2025/01/15
I'm not a chopper, but I'm a large-ball player who enjoys making the ball do unpredictable things. Until now I'd been using carbon blades because they have good touch and speed.
I figured all my overshooting misses were because my blade flew too much, and I thought an old blade paired with pips rubber from over 15 years ago — the kind people call "mummified" — wouldn't fly as much and would be easier to control.
Then I saw a video where the chop came out in a straight line and dropped sharply, and I thought this blade matched what I was going for, so I bought it. I put on the Attack 8 ultra-soft high-elasticity PZC/SP, the same rubber used on the 30-degree hardness large-ball version of the Attack 8, and unless I hit it flat, the only sound was a scraping sound. Since it's thick/max thickness,
the Magnus effect makes it easy to put spin on, and even swinging all-out, it doesn't fly too much and overshooting misses
have gone down.
Since it's pointless in table tennis to send the ball flying way past the table no matter how far, I feel like at 79 years old I've finally found a blade and rubber that don't fly too much.
I think older players should be using equipment like this — a blade that doesn't fly and a soft rubber that doesn't fly either.Overall Speed Spin Control Touch Hardness Soft
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