7 Ply Wood Blade – The Public Lover

7 Ply Wood Blade – The Public Lover

7 Ply wood blade’s has many layers, theoretically the structure combination has bigger variation than others 5 and 3 plywood blade; no matter how its change, the balance between softness and hardness always be the key factor. According to classification, 7 ply wood blade development has 3 stages:

1^st stage: Traditional Hard 7 Ply Wood – emphasis on speed and power, CL, P700 are the typical representative.

2^nd stage: Soft 7 Ply Wood – thin thickness, lightweight, overall characteristic tends to be soft, good in looping, the typical example are PPP and YE7.

3^rd stage: Soft 7 Ply wood with Hard style or Hard 7 ply wood with soft style – especially in water base glue era, the number of design using harder outer ply blade has been increasing, toward balancing, the trends becoming “Hard outer ply combined Soft inner ply”, the typical representative from this group are Ovtcharov Senso and YES.

The development of 7 Ply wood blade history was from hard to soft, gradually switching toward “Hard outer ply with soft innerply” design, the balance of this paradigm shift is according to the table tennis rules and regulation development, because of this changes, the characteristic differences between 5 Ply Blade and 7 Ply Blade has been increasing.

Tips: Why some of the 7 Ply blade has 2 obvious red lines?

The two red lines design is nothing to do with characteristic, mainly just for appearance, this design was began from Stiga CL blade. This is difference with Fiber ply which its color shown is actually its origin color.

Donic Ovtcharov Senso – Instant Celebrities

This blade was born in 2009, gradually gaining attention from the world after Dimitrij Ovtcharov recently outstanding performance. Outer ply is Walnut wood, inner 3 plys are Ayous wood, middle soft, one of the typical pioneer designs for “Hard outer ply with soft inner ply”. Although this is a star endorsement blade, however the price is reasonable, its characteristic of this blade is easy to use, quite balance, close and middle table attack and defense, still powerfull when far away from table, you won’t find obvious disadvantage from this blade.

Butterfly Timo Boll W7 – Restore Hard 7 Ply Wood Style

Compare to its development in Fiber technology, Butterfly do not makes big development in 7 Ply wood, the W7 is a traditional Hard 7 Ply, thickness is about 7.0mm, weight seldom lower than 90g, Koto outer ply + 5 ply Ayous wood, overall hardness comparative with Stiga CL blade, the main focus for this blade is “Speed”. For those who like traditional hard 7 ply, you may try W7.

Reported by Table Tennis World, No. 243

Translated by CY Ho (Skybiz Sports )