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작성자 : BH-MAN

My Test Model

Nexy Spartacus Straight Handle

Weight: 83 grams (WOW, that is so light for me, who craves blades tippin ght escale at over 90 grams+)

Balance: Very Nuetral with heavy rubbers and grip tape on handle

Thickness: 5.7mm

Composition: 7-Ply Hinoki/Ayous/Carbon/Mystery Core Wood/Carbon/Ayous/Hinoki

Sealing: Nexy was nice to coat it lightly for me (with water based sealant, I think)

Vibration: Much. (That is taken with grains of salt. I am lifetime user of TBS, a very stiff non-vbrating blade)

Overall Speed Class: Low end of OFF speed

Speed Linear Properties: Kinda slower than you expect on serves and pushing a slow ball. Kinda slower when you block by just holding the racket. Drives and loops have the speed you expect out of this speed class. Powerloops and counter smashing have good acceleration. Definately an upper gear, but it feels so different from stiff blade upper gear. You get feedback.

Blade Graphics: Nexy does something different with his scheme, font, composition, and effects. That is good by me. Handle looks neat with different color scheme on each side of handle, another difference.

Build Quality: The sample was one nice speciman for sure.

Packaging: None. What need of packaging is there when you are in Nexy HQ and the Nexy president gives you the blade in person? Guess you all get to see when you get your production models.

Stiffness: Flexy. Think flexy. Do flexy. BE the flexy. This blade flexes and vibrates, but not bad like some Stigas I tried.

Babe Factor: Depends on where you are at. In Korea, this is a new model and not so many have this blade yet, so it draws some interest.

Rubbers Used: FH Tenegy 05 Red 2.1 BH DHS Skyline II Neo Black 2.2 Combined weight felt right at or under 180 grams.

Hitting Properties: I am so used to the stiff OFF TBS blade, I feel like I cannot hit with a Stiga-like vibrating machine. Let's face it, this thing vibrates and it takes me some hitting to get used to it, just like the transition to Lissom when I tested it.

There is a distinct tone on drive to drive warm-ups that you have to hear to understand. When you crank up the swing speed, you really crank up the speed and SOUND. It sounds and almost feels like you are destroying the ball on fast swings with solid contact. Talk about the BANG Nexy describes - good grief this blade can BANG it with the best of them. This blade rewards BANG impact. You get Lissom-like grab and catapult + spin, but with a much faster result.

Serves, slow pushes, and blocks require a different touch. the ball does not come off the blade as fast or as long as the TBS or other fast/stiff blades. It took me a few days to start to get used to this. My first day was not a success one these strokes, but got and felt acceptable by day three.

Blocking at first is requiring a differnt hold and stroke than the TBS or stiff/fast blade. You are almost forced to use technique for active block or absorb energy block. That can be one interesting adjustment for players like me. By day three, I was way better and confident blocking using this blade. It seemed to channel me into using more agression or putting on the brakes for the blocks. That was trickier using TBS and the feel was different, bu I managed to adjust. This is a plus as you have some more options open to you when you can block in different ways.

Opening loops with T05 are what you expect and more. Spin is severe heavy with my kind of acceleration on opening shot. The kick is also severe. That kick and variations in spin and speed are very troublesome to opponents. It was very easy to open with either wing. It inspired confidence. By day two of using this setup, I was landing more loops in loop/block training with the coach than when I did using TBS. My TBS however, has an old sheet of T05.

Drives were not crisp like the TBS, the feel is entirely different, yet after a few days, they land well now. Fast drives are fast and smashes are fast enough, but not in the TBS/Amulart/Schlager Carbon range. The loud BANG is proof of your solid impact and you get used to and expect this impact throught the match. Still, this thing has control once you adapt.

Fast Looping is rewarding in sound of both the band and the sound of your new SGE rubber. You get a little more speed than you expect on your full swings, but the "Kick" is very pronounced and destructive to opponents if you have the racket speed at impact to spin the ball up heavily.

BH looping is a sweet strength. They land loaded with spin and control. You will get a lot of balls blocked out with your BH if you can accellerate the blade. Being able to open with heavy spin on BH is often a safer shot than trying to step around and finish, because if hte opponent can get a portion of hte racket on the ball, it can be blocked by you in no time and you are already out of the picture, unless you loop was a turtle. These shots are especially troublesome to my oppoents and set you up to finish the point in a number of ways, like another BH fast drive, or a FH shot to middle, BH line, or wide FH corner.

Flicking is fun and natural. I guess the light blade weight helps, but I already got by fine with extra heavy (over 200 gram) setups.

Counter looping is one of the best strengths. Speed is initially feeling a little less than you think, yet the actual speed is much faster and the kick is an asset here. Top gear of counter looping is encouraging and high percentage landing. The ball stays a little longer on blade than a stiff blade and T05 is already an embracing rubber already, so this combo spells double trouble for your opponent if you timed you shot well.

In the drill where coach is smashing balls alternating to each corner at a rate of 1.5 to 2 balls a second

you normally just do what it takes to keep it on the table. With Spartacus (and Lissom) I could counter the smash on FH and land it often in that drill. That was uber cool.

Who this blade is for: a wide variety of players who want spin/control/BANG in an lower range of OFF speed class who like a LIGHT blade that is very well balanced, looks and feels good, plus vibrates.

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작성자 : harldlhzx

I had a training session with a coach and another club play in between. I start considering using Spartacus as main blade since I like the superior control. The downside is less power on my attack strokes - one reason of course lies in my bad technique :( - no spin balls require you to have a more active stroke as not to land in the net.

There is something to the 'computerized control' - Spartacus dampens the incoming ball without being too soft as to get mushy. It is easy to lead to ball to where you want it. When switching between Innerforce and Spartacus I felt a great difference in the ability to control my game.

Spartacus has less catapult compared to ALC, which makes the passive game much easier. Again, heavy strokes have some speed. It is definitely a blade you can use away from the table. As Nexy described above, it seems that at some point in time the carbon kicks in. A little downside is that Spartacus maybe plays less linear then other blades - it has a very special character which I have not seen in blades from other vendors yet.

Compared to Lissom, I like the added power - with Lissom I had issues with handling no spin balls - I think Spartacus is better at that, but less good as the Innerforce, where the catapult helps a lot. Same as with Lissom, Spartacus has a great potential for spin - my training partners often 'misunderestimated' the spin on the ball.

While Spartacus has the same brittle feel as Lissom, I noticed today the softness of the top Hinoki layer (see Nexy's post above) which makes for a more rounded and soft feeling on ball contact.

Spartacus supports a more consistent style of play - if you thrive on killer shots even Timo Boll could not return, you might get frustrated. On the other hand, I have much less moments where I feel like a complete fool when I can not handle even medium spinny topspins because of my too fast equipment (and bad technique of course ).

Apart from rather low level players like me (~ USATT 1650), high level players with good power generation might love that blade as well.

......... 며칠 후 다시 올린 글입니다.

Played some more with Spartacus after my vacation. I have to agree with BH-Man: this blade is great for learning good strokes without sacrificing too much speed. The blade is very safe and effective on shots where I make good use of arm and wrist snap as well as forward motion. That way I actually trust myself to play such shots during matches, which is what I have to do to become a better player.
Another small downside I discovered: the blade reacts quite a bit on spin, which makes it more difficult to return slow and spinny balls with a touch shot.

Anyhow, Spartacus is good enough too replaced the Innerforce ALC I've been using before (at least until the next EJ attack )

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작성자 : carryboy

Just got my Spartacus today.

 Initial impressions: Fit an Finish is quite high as I could not find anything out of place. Kiso Hinoki top ply looks to be of high quality and nicely sanded and smoothed. Balance seems a bit towards the head and could become head heavy depending on rubbers used, however I use handle wraps so this may not be an issue. Overall the blade does feel very nice in my hand and I must say the flared handle is excellent. The wings could do with a bit of light sanding for comfort (leaving it as it is for now). Weight is 84 grams.

Will varnish lightly later and hopefully have a knock with it tonight. One point of interest is the design which is minimal and no pages of fine print that you find on some other commercial blades out there, just ready for business. More Later!!

I did a initial knuckle test on Spartacus and it has a loud carbon ping sound. I also bounced a ball on it without rubbers and it is very loud and has a hard feeling. This blade certainly does not feel as soft as I expected it to based on other reviews so far on this thread. I did give it a slight varnish and attached a sheet of Aurus soft 2.1 forehand and Donic coppa jo silver 2.0 backhand. Total weight with handle wrap is 173.8 grams which is a bit on the heavy side for me but the setup feels very balanced surprisingly. With rubbers on I did another ball test and the blade still has this hard carbon feel and sound. Will give it a test run tomorrow.

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See picture of blade after attaching the rubbers.

SPEED: Off-

SURFACE FEEL: Medium -

ELASTICITY: Flexible

THROW ANGLE: Medium

Initial Playing Impressions:

I have had three nights playing with this blade (7 - 8 hours total) with the first night being not too good but very interesting nonetheless, you know more like the first date. Second night was much better as I better understood the ins and outs and what I can do and not do with this blade. I can tell you it feels like a wood blade in the low to medium speeds with much flex and good feel for the ball. This blade does not have a lot of rebound like most of the blades that I am use to. I had to make some adjustments in my pushing and over the table play. The upside to this is that my forehand and backhand pushes are a lot spinnier as I am able to really sink the ball into the sponge or brush the ball with a bit more force. Pushing long, short, drop shots, flicks were easy as the control factor on Spartacus is very high.

Loops are ridiculously easy, I mean easy to the point that after every shot I kept looking at the racket and my practice partner. Slow and medium speed loops are so loaded that they are more than likely blocked off or they pop up for a easy put away. Loop drives are very fast, loads of spin, dipping, curving (the whole kitchen sink) with just slight variations in blade angle. I could see that my practice partner was having real problems dealing with the spin. Changing loop directions was as easy as just a thought and quite explosive. I would say that this would have to do also with the Aurus Soft rubber on this blade as it would seem that both blade and rubber really gel together to create one heck of a looping synergy. On hard shots you begin to feel the carbon kicking in like a turbocharged engine. My first night with this set up was a disaster as most of my shots kept going long. I had to angle the blade much lower than usual (flexible medium throw blade + high throw spinny rubber = ) Flat Hits and smashes I am still working on as there is still a high degree of error. Third night flat hits and smashes are much improved.

Blocks are OK and I really did not find an issue with it and it even get better once you begin to understand the blade.

Serves are good and quite spinny. Short serves needs some practice.

Played my first practice match last night with this set up. I did manage to win the match 3 - 2 but just barely. This match was by no means a looping/power game but a touch and push sort of scenario. For neither love nor money would my opponent push or play power shots on my forehand and kept putting the ball short (dead ball) if he had to. I guess he was not in an adventurous mood knowing what this combo could do, so my forehand looping was at a minimum but when I did get the chance the spin was horrendous. I lost a lot of points pushing on my forehand due to me misjudging the rebound on the blade and Aurus Combo. I lost quite a bit of points with my serves (practice needed) as I was serving off the table. I did win as lot of points with my backhand drives and loops especially a few feet off the table and just letting it rip. After three days of playing I feel there is a change in the blade, it feels a bit looser and not so tight and woody as before.



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작성자 : Elmo 51

Then the playing charasteristics:

The spartacus is a very controlable carbon blade. I tested it with tenergy 05 on FH and blitz on BH and will compare to WSC and TBS and maybe will to with some others that i used

Control: Control is perfect, Touch shots are very easy to perform

So i would say WSC first but only a little better , tehn Spartacus and then much

further away TBS. Violin has even more control then all off these and i would put xiom

stradivarius between spartacus and TBS

Touch shots:

Touch shots are very easy to perform with the Spartacus , a little higher throw angle then

WSC but very easy to do if you adjust your wrist a little bit.

I would put them at the same place and TBS further away which is normal since TBS is

much harder, Violin is im my opinion even more good at this

Loop:

Looping is very easy with this setup, like other members say with the right swing

you get tons of spin, about the same as WSC and very controlled

I found that my BH loop was even more easy to do with the spartacus then with the WSC

I find it hard to compare this to the TBS since that is so much faster and harder for me

to get it on the table. They fly over more with my play because of the speed.

Speed:

In terms of speed its good enough, but compared to the WSC it is al ittle slower. Just

a little but I had hoped it was faster then WSC, i think it is about the speed of the violin.

TBS and Stradivarius are both faster and harder/stiffer.

Flex:

Like said above TBS an Strad are both stiffer, TBS the stiffest.

WSC has most flex Then Violin Then Spartacus.

Block:

Unlike a lot of people I Like blocking with softer controlable blades a lot.

So with spartacus blocking was very easy to, very precise . just where i wanted them.

About the same as with WSC just a little slower, About the same as violin, Ofcourse with

strad and TBS its faster and with more punch so it makes it more difficult for your

opponent to return but it more difficult for you to to time the block.

Overall Impression:

I find the Nexy spartacus a very nice and well balanced blade, I would rate it as off-

and I think that it is very suitable for allround players our offensive players who rely on

control like myself although it could be little bit faster for my likings.

Its a well made blade, i asume the little crack was a mistake and it is a blade for a

big market for sure. I think the majority of amateur players will like this blade when

they buy it and will learn a lot from it until they grow into a faster blade.

It will be my second blade, And i will continue to search for a little faster

and flexible carbon blade then the WSC with about the same amount of control

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