There are blades that has plies other than 5 or 7. Just to let you know.

Stiga blades are somewhat decent in quality but you might want to sandpaper your handle when you get it as they tend to be a lot rougher. Unless you are a chopper, any offensive blade would do the trick generally. You'll actually have more range of strokes with an offensive blade than control-oriented blade.

Let's not looking into the number of plies 5 or 7. In general, there are 3 types of blades if you are not using the pimple rubble (shakehand or penhold); Defensive blade, All round blade and Offensive blade. I have 3 of them.

Defensive blade - The re-bounce from the blade is slower and better absorb the power when your opponent is creating forehand spin.
All round blade - This is a balance blade between offensive and defensive. Slightly harder than defensive blade but softer than offensive blade.
Offensive blade - The is a very fast blade and it is also very hard. Hard blades generally cannot generate huge amount of spin. But the power it generates is tremendous. Of course, this blade is not good in absorbing the power from your opponent.

Also, there are also All wood blades, carbon blades, composite carbon blades and etc. Carbon blades are generally more expensive but most expensive of all is the all wood Hinoki blade.

You can read here about choosing your blades.
http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/table-tennis-blade.html

I have YinHe V13 which is an AllRound blade and YinHe V2, an Offensive+ blade.

This post has been edited by szewooi2001: Feb 11 2015, 02:06 PM

Not exactly accurate. Offensive blades are harder for beginners to produce good spin. Same goes with absorbing power. It's all about your own hand controlling the blade.

This post has been edited by Steven_aka_G: Feb 12 2015, 10:04 AM

Agreed. Suitable for experts but not for beginners. But once the beginner gradually progresses, they will be more capable to use their own hand with acquired skills to better control the Offensive blade.

Hey people I'm a new TT player, play since standard 3 but quit lolz.
School has ping pong club and table inside boarding house, and I've decided it's pretty fun, I'd like to get a decent premade/custom bat. I'm more of an all round/defensive player. Can anyone recommend me Premade/Custom bats and where to buy them? I live around KLCC area so idk where shops are. Please tell me a few shops! Ty!

I was looking around, and I saw that the Butterfly Sriver and a Matsushita Pro rubbers, and the Timo Boll All blades are good, any pricing on them and whether they have stock in which shops?

Check presports.com. They do delivery and they have a decent range of stocks.

I can't. Have to go to shop to buy

Then I can only think of Viva Mall. Should be the nearest to you.

Good on you bro, bit by the TT bug too. Just got my custom made blade and it is awesome!

A colleague of mine mentioned that there's a shop in main part of Ampang that sells sports equipment including a selection of blades and rubber. You feel like traveling a little further to checkout equipments go to tenryu (subang), q-sports (petaling jaya), PJ Union (paramount, PJ) or amcorp mall

Good way of making a decision, I walked into PJ union last Saturday and got myself a Donic Epox Carbotec with Donic Liga forehand and Baxter backhand. Can't wait to play it later this evening

Does topper sports in ampang park sell? Friend mentioned that it had, but idk. I should be able to try and get there! Thanks.

But are they open now since it's CNY

Pertama Complex is not to far away from Ampang Park. You should also check out Lucky Sports Trading. Opened by ex-national player Tay Kee.

Lucky Sports Trading
2,49, 2Nd Floor, Pertama Shopping Complex Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, 50100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Is that area even safe? Just wondering. Heard got lots of mak rempit

You can't have mat rempits around when the roads are filled with many cars, right? Take LRT to go Pertama Complex. Lucky Sports Trading has plenty of choices. Only sells table tennis equipment.

Sorry, not mak rempit. Heard got lots of foreign workers and some scammers there

Up to you, the choice is yours. Or you can follow what ufaiq did, go to PJ Union in Taman Paramount.

Is Pj Union open during CNY?
And for Amcorp mall is the shop still open?
And are all of them even open during CNY?
Sorry for asking:(

You can call. PJ Union has a Facebook page. Or you can go today or latest by tomorrow

Ok ty