QUOTE(szewooi2001 @ Dec 3 2015, 03:29 PM)
I can't help you on this maybe others can. I am a c-pen player already on the path to learn RPB. Changed from jpen to cpen. I am using YinHe blade. Chinese blades are heavy and with thickness about 5.6mm-7mm. You have to look for japanese brand blade Juic. By the way, Juic is not available in Malaysia as far as I know.
As for ALL/Off/Off+, I have all of them. Each differs greatly from each other. Too hard to play with OFF+ blade, too slow to play with ALL and in the end, I chose OFF.
this looks like where i'm heading. from jpen to cpen.
looking at yinhe 986. seems like the good option for now.
maybe i'll give it a try first anyway.
QUOTE(pingpang @ Dec 3 2015, 05:04 PM)
For larger sweet spot using Jpen, can look for hybrid bats like carbon bat which has a larger sweet spot compared with its wooden counterpart.
I am using a 1-ply Hinoki (> 30 year old blade) rated OFF by Butterfly Japan. It's a round shape J-pen. My regular training blade is a squarish 1-ply Hinoki (about 20 years old) rated O/ALL.
Search the web, maybe there's one for you. In fact I got mine (comes with a mint looking Tenergy rubber for RM150/= as the owner has given up on table tennis )
IMO jpen seems not suitable for RPB. based on i dont see people with jpen doing RPB except me. haha
currently using dawei blade with rubber on both side. its the squarish type one.
pretty heavy but thanks to the jpen cork i could hold it with confidence.
never used the round shaped before.
anyway thanks for some heads up.
still doing some searching though.