XIOM Aztec - Table Tennis Shorts

Professional Spin Weapon!

XIOM introduces a highly durable and strong spin generating tensor rubber, XIOM Vega Asian. Innovative enlarged attack window over the net is a speciality of this German rubber.

The XIOM Vega Asian uses the "hyper elasto" technology and a revolutionary black "carbo sponge" - more power to reveal your skills.

Double lifetime and max durability.

Vega Pro has the deeper and longer ball-dragging feel at impact which reflexes upgraded tensile force of rubber to make more spin rotations. Spin-innovated Vega Pro makes higher and more curved ball-trajectory to create the largest safe-zone (big window) over the net. New black Carbo-Sponge maximized the dynamic efficiency to generate additional energy onto the ball. Accurate response to player's intention also makes more opportunities to lead the rally game. Resilient tensile structure of Vega Pro increases the lifetime of rubber to double.

AMAZING SPINS TO MAKE AGGRESSIVE PARABOLIC CURVE. BUILT-IN SPEED OF NEW GENERATION CONSTRUCTION. SUPERB CONTROL OF KNUCKLE SHOTS AT BLOC.

ZAVA I has the softer pimples-out top sheet with built-in tension to create amazing speed and spin.

New pimple structure and elastic construction based on spin-innovated Hyper Elasto generate unprecedented ball-trajectory among pimples-out rubbers, which also opens a bigger window over the net.

ZAVA I also has the balanced pimples-out performance with well-controlled knuckle shots to keep the unique advantage for pimples-out plays. Feel the sensation of elastic ZAVA I and Win the match with unprecedented pimples-out performance.

Classic polo shirt with white piping. HO-Cooling material for comfortable wear, embroidered JOOLA logo..

• Material: 100% HO Cooling

Despite its oversize the 5-ply defensive blade only weighs 80 grams. In comprehensive tests international JOOLA top players Tatjana Kostromina and Chen Weixing were essential in the development. The Flame Low is characterised by perfect balance – for secure defensive play and controlled-aggressive attack.

• Weight: approx. 80 gm
• Plies: Limba 1.0mm, Black Cloth, Kiri 4.0mm

Speed

Control

Unique 7-Ply offensive blade for all-round topspin players
Exceptional stability from high level of predictability

SOLO is a unique 7-ply blade which is developed for continuous topspin or all-round strategy. Though it has 7-ply construction, its feel isn’t hard as players are apt to imagine from conventional 7-ply blades. Solo is soft, mild, balanced, and full of stability. And, the linear relationship between impact strength and the level of rebound provides ideal predictability and reproducibility. The result is exceptional stability and ease of use. Every technique of table tennis is so easy with SOLO. Topspin is quite easy and full of rotation. Hard smash is very safe and full of speed. Block is secure and full of variation. These advantages give players great confidence, and making their table tennis more all-round, and more powerful.

ALL-WOOD BLADES OF SUPERB BALANCE

NOVUS TOURWOOD is a family of all wood blades of balanced performance and soft feel. All blades in this family provide relatively softer feel and all-round characteristics. Their clear but stable feel is preferred by many top players whose main strategy is continuous spin. The light blue color of handle is the symbol of security and creativity.

Ultimate dynamics for top professionals. Deadly speed equipped with maximized control.

Ultimate rubber performance without speed glue or boosters developed byand made for top professionals. OMEGA III focuses mainly on the needsof top players in new era without boosters and glues. Deadly newfeatures requires more of your patience. Uncontrollably speedy andpowerful character of OMEGA III requires you more weeks to put it undercommand. Speed and spin measure exceeds not only multiple speed-gluedrubbers, but even OMEGA II. But very solid stability is fully intactwith this unprecedented performance. Revolutionized dynamics of OMEGAIII is designed to provide the real advantage to top professionals inthe high speed game. Ryu Seung Min, 2004 Olympic Champion, has beendeeply involved in the development of OMEGA III.

Omega Series

Historic advantage of rubber technology proven real-play performance after the ban

Built-in tension of OMEGA series exceeds the average speed glue effect and the booster effect made by uncomfortable and illegal liquid gluings.

Boosters and Speed Glues are illegal

For the true spirit of table tennis

VOC packed speed glues damage the enviroment and the health of the people. It has also been damaging the image of table tennis. Since ITTF announced the new regulation to stop the speed glue for the benefit of table tennis, as a bounce back of some habitual gluers, some boosters were introduced to the market. But boosters are still skin-irritating hazardous compounds against the spirit of new regulation. Finally ITTF also banned the boosters along with any substances other than water glue simply to attach the rubber on the blade.

The ITTF regulation 2.04.07 "The covering material should be used as it has been authorized by ITTF without any physical, chemical or other treatment, changing or modifying playing properties, friction, outlook, colour, structure, surface etc..."

Amazing new technology for the spirit

True spirit of ban can be found in new technology applied to OMEGA series. OMEGA series, are not only clean and safe but also professonally performing at top level of table tennis play. Speed and spin the players used to get from VOC speed glues are fully built into the OMEGA series. Level of built-in-power and spin effect in OMEGA series is even higher than those from boosters and speed gluers. Instead of struggling with toxic substances, you simply put OMEGA and just focus on your game to win.

Essence of pure power in new 5 ply wood construction. Born to topspin.

• All wood but power oriented construction
• Energy loss from deformation reduced by 12% from XIOM Maximus
• Clear but comfortable energy fell
  

It was the common belief that 5 ply blade has a good control and feel but slower speed. ARIA breaks that myth without any doubt. While keeping the natural feel of 5 ply all wood blade, ARIA has the pure sense of aggressive power. Thicker but character-balanced veneer combination greatly enhanced all the expected speed measures. ARIA re-structured the energy efficiency and vibration performance from European classics. Each layer has a new balance with another to maximize the overall power capability. Such a powerful topspin from the far distance you can make with easier control. Construction aims at the match with softer OMEGA European series.

Revolutionized Wood Blades In New Harmony With New Generation Rubbers

Ideal blades minimize the loss of energy and promote the rubber to make its intended performance at full. They also should deliver the sense made by the ball impact exactly and clearly to the brain through a body. XIOM developed the unique system to develop the ideal blades by a series of time taking researches. NOVUS SPEEDWOOD series are revolutionized in new system and design to enhance the efficiency in energy transfer and vibration transfer. Each of 3 blade models in the series has its own very distinctive advantages but focuses on the balance with new TENSOR BIOS rubbers of XIOM. XIOM new generation rubbers for 2008 ban of speed glue can be fully exploited with NOVUS SPEEDWOOD series.

Innovated construction of speedwood

NOVUS SPEEDWOOD series are developed to match with new rubber series of XIOM. Escaped from traditional construction SPEEDWOOD series used unique veneers like SUPRUCE and KOTO. SUPRUCE has its own unique character in hardness, density, and vibration. KOTO is quite hard/heavy but excellent in feel transfer to improve the overall balance of a blade. NOVUS SPEEDWOOD carefully selected the natural wood to use by weight and density.

Positioning of Novus wood blades

Novus Speedwood

High performance blades for post-ban era completed by VIBROTECH. 3 models cover the bigger range in character. Very different identities at rather extreme positioning are created all by 5 ply construction. Stable and very distictive characters make SPEEDWOOD series unique.

Novus Swedish

Focused on professional use with very balanced positioning in character. All made with original Kiso Hinoki surface created the new feeling and the new performance. 3 models has relatively similar characters but with delicate differences. Energy efficiency has been greatly improved by SCANWOOD technology.

New Speed Measure

Standard To Explain The Speed

The traditional terms like OFF- or ALL+ confuse the players to identify the real speed character of a blade. So far the table tennis industry did not use standardized and object measure to explain about the speed. As an example, ALL blade is generally accepted as a 5 ply blade with low rebound and lightweight for allround play. But top players use ALL blades to play very speedy and aggressive games. Swing speed, experience, and rubbers can influence more on the speed character. The speed character cannot be defined by simple rebound height of a ball from the blade surface. XIOM adopted new speed measure from 2008 to explain the speed character of all blade series. REBOUND MEASURE indicates the repulsion level of construction influenced by hardness, weight, and thickness. HIGH SPEED PERFORMANCE explains the moment reaction of a blade against a high speed ball in real play paradigm. Good new is now that these measures are object and standardized by testing machines.

Perfect balance of Power with Stability. Born-to-kill Professional Weapon.

• Classic Construction But now with Energy Carbon
• Elasticity vs Weight Enhanced by 12%+ from Competitors
• Milder Feel and Lighter Construction than Competitors.
• Weight: 85 ~ 95gm
• Thickness: 6.8mm
• Plies: 3 + 2
  

New equilibrium of speed and stability. A combination of optimized thickness construction and Kiso Hinoki + ENERGY CARBON match created new ideal balance for professional players. The consistency and precision of ball trajectory from STRATO in high speed rally excel other offensive carbon blades. And special advantages - so easy to topspin and very sharp at decisive shots - makes STRATO the professional killer. STRATO performs at its best in the hands of experienced top players who can take advantage of its unique value.

Novus Carbon Series

New Generation Kiso Hinoki Carbon For New Era! Feel Of Wood And Speed Of Carbon!

The solution was ENERGY CARBON. Carbon blades were not preferred by professional players since they could not find the natural feel to control the ball at the impact. ENERGY CARBON is enhanced in energy efficiency from the old X-Carbon to reflect the ball feel more clearly and softly. ENERGY CARBON also recreates your swing power more efficiently at impact. Combination with the legendary blade material Kiso Hinoki stretched the advantage in power. Each model of NOVUS CARBON series has its own unique focus and is in harmony with new generation rubbers of XIOM.

Super Combination

Kiso Hinoki + Energy Carbon

3 Novus Carbon models have faster and repulsive character than key competitors in general while FEEL parameters show very reasonable balance. This creative and distictive positioning identifies NOVUS CARBON as the new carbon blades in post-ban era. Power generated by lighther but energy effifient constructio increases the chance of success in attack. Feel is surprisingly balanced when you hit the ball.

New Feel Measure

Standard To Explain The Feel

Traditional indication of OFF+ or ALL also does not help the players to understand the most important character of a blade - the feel and control. The feel is a decisive factor to select his/her own blade because it influences directly on the control in high speed game like table tennis. Score system like control = 93 disregarding the object and standardized measure also confuses the customers. Feel or control cannot be easily measured and explained in numbers. As an example, 7 ply blade has been regarded to be faster in speed, harder in feel, and less easier to control. But the test proves that 7 ply can provides the clear and sharp feel to promote your control eventually. XIOM focused on setting new objective standard to explain the feel measures through the sound and vibration researches. HIT FEEL explains the stiffness feel of a blade mainly from hardness, weight, and thickness of a blade. TOUCH FEEL tells the sharpness feel at impact influencing more on individual control behavior. XIOM assumed that FEEL can be measured by the vibration behavior of a blade. Control is concerning the weight of a racket , the matching rubbers of a blade, and more importantly FEEL character of your preference.

Introducing Energy Carbon

New ENERGY CARBON replacing X-CARBON from 2008 has ultimate performance character as the carbon. CARBON promotes the highest elasticity with the mixture of wood veneers; higher than ARAMID, ZYLON, and TEXALIUM. The speed character is unmatchable, but the traditional CARBON fiber cuts the vibration too fast at the impact. As a result, players can not get enough information from the impact to react on if not trained for a long time to use the CARBON blades. ENERGY CARBON was developed to enhance the energy transfer rate to the level of 10+% vs X-CARBON. Higher efficiency in energy transfer helped greatly on the vibration problem. More natural vibration you can felt with ENERGY CARBON blade series - NOVUS CARBON. ENERGY CARBON is a key element of NOVUS construction.

Kiso Hinoki for Shakehand Plywood

Kiso Hinoki is being produced from the limited area of Kiso mountain in Japan. High repulsive power, light-weight, and ideal feel characterize this legendary blade wood. Original Kiso Hinoki materials are very scarce and not-comparably expensive. XIOM has advanced in Hinoki wood processing technique for the last years and made the super quality Hinoki veneers to apply at NOVUS series. 0.6 ~1.4mm of various thicknesses are used to create very distinctive performance in each model.

Extreme power and superb control for Chinese Players!

Dream combination for Chinese professional play. Legacy continues with new technology.

Unique customization for Chinese professionals of the next generation of breakthrough technology. TENSOR BIOS technology created a theoretical maximum tension inside of ZETA. The advantage of Chinese method to boost the tension in the extremely hard rubber with a series speed gluing will continue with this new technology - now without messy speed glue. Customized top sheet will greatly improve the winning chance in the Chinese style. Amazing power generated from the hard sponge and special top sheet, both under built-in tension will dominate the opponents.

ZETA Dream Combination

Chinese Tradition reborn in new technology

Dream combination for Chinese playing style. Balanced between extreme power and superb control. Breakthrough TENSOR BIOS for close-to-table offensive plays.

Revolutionized Technology

Impact Mechanism of topspin

The force at the impact with the ball is combined with 2 directional forces. Vertical force N creates some speed and helps the horizontal force T to create more spin rotations. In the modern  table tennis game, T force facilitates the most of aggression and power. Speed glue effect enhances T over N. XIOM rubbers in TENSOR and TENSOR BIOS technology also focus on increasing T without speed glue while improving N and energy transfer dynamics at ball impact.

Breakthrough to exceed boosters and speed glues

TENSOR technology replacing VOC speed glue effect and booster effect greatly in the last decade. TENSOR BIOS introduced in 2006 reached the level of maximum spin and speed performance without speed glue over TENSOR 1st, 2nd,3rd generation. ZETA for Chinese professionals adopts the new TENSOR BIOS generation which is more stable in dynamics than its original generation. T and N reached the theoretical maximum and exceeded the level of heavily glued or boosted rubbers in average. The consistency in ball trajectory and the precision in ball control are superb if compared with any oter rubbers available.

Customization in real play

The technology itself is not at all complete to satisfy the player's need. To succeed in making final consumer products, the research on the real-play application is a must. Wide variety in stroke habits and playing skills of different player groups require "customization" of the technology to each group. XIOM divided the various play styles into major groups - European and Asian. Developing the final products into 2 different characters is an outcome of our studies over years. Not only 2 versions vary at the sponge hardness but also by the core characters needed by each group.

TENSOR INNOVATED SHORT PIMPLE RUBBER IN NEW CHARACTERS.

Short pimples-out rubber equipped with TENSOR technology. Contemporary table tennis requires the fast attack not only by hard smash/block but also by topspin, to the pimple-out players. These new modern pimples-out players will find STYX SP very attractive. Built-in speed glue effect has been integrated into its pimples-out top sheet and sponge and the spin capability has been increased. Styx SP also keeps the key advantage of classic short pimples-out rubbers; short contact time with a ball to make fast close-to-net attack. The moment repulsion from short pimples is faster than ever, thanks to TENSOR technology integrated to pimples-out top sheet and sponge.