XIOM RSM Platinum Athena Japanese Penhold - OFF Table Tennis Blade

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.

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

Ultimate rubber performance without speed glue or boosters developed by and made for top professionals. OMEGA III focuses mainly on the needs of top players in new era without boosters and glues. Deadly new features requires more of your patience. Uncontrollably speedy and powerful character of OMEGA III requires you more weeks to put it under command. Speed and spin measure exceeds not only multiple speed-glued rubbers, but even OMEGA II. But very solid stability is fully intact with this unprecedented performance. Revolutionized dynamics of OMEGA III is designed to provide the real advantage to top professionals in the high speed game. Ryu Seung Min, 2004 Olympic Champion, has been deeply 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.

Ignite the fire in your attack. Lightweight Hinoki Carbon for Sharp and Creative Offense.

• 6.2mm Light but Control Balanced Hinoki Carbon
• Easier Adoption from All Wood Blade users
• Construction for Easier Continuous topspin
• Weight: 80 ~ 90gm
• Plies: 3 + 2
• Thickness: 6.2mm
  

Surprisingly sharp and bold attack at close-to-table with IGNITO makes the blade a sniper of table tennis. It was a challenge to balance out this unique attack performance with Hinoki and Carbon while keeping the total weight low. ENERGY CARBON improved in energy efficiency greatly contributed to the final blade construction. Benefit of better energy efficiency from ENERGY CARBON influenced more due to its thinness of IGNITO as a result. Suitable for the fast attackers good at timing and perfect match with OMEGA and ZETA Asian series rubbers.

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.

Kiso Hinoki & New Energy Carbon combination to smash it hard Absolute destructive

Very fast Hinoki Carbon blade for close-to-table play. Special head shape adds the speed on the combination of the thick Kiso Hinoki outer layer and super elastic ENERGY CARBON. Speed provides a clear and sharp sound due to its short contact time. Thicker Kiso Hinoki outer layer and the vibration -absorbing design of handle are combined to offer the advantage in aggressive play close to the table with fast topspin and hard smash.

Absolute Carbon 08 Upgraded

Reborn Hinoki Carbon Blades With New Energy Carbon For Maximized Energy Transfer And Feel.

Absolute Carbon series blades represent the "Absolute Power." Unprecedented mixture of high power and great control is realized by the special combination of legendary Kiso Hinoki wood and high-tech materials Energy carbon. Every player can easily adopt these super-fast blades just with a few days of practice. Absolute Carbon series are reborn to rule the modern table tennis game in which players cannot survive without speed and power.

The ultimate balance of power and control - golden standard of Japanese Penholder

Top class Kiso Hinoki penholder blades. Only top 5-10% of Hinoki woods are selected for PLATINUM class. Perfect Sound and heavier weight for top professional players including Ryu Seung Min.

ATHENA RSM is a Weapon of the 2004 Olympic Champion, Ryu Seung Min. Ryu plays powerful topspin and sharp block with a superb balance.Selected high quality Kiso Hinoki is sliced to a single ply of exactly 10.0mm thickness. The head shape is designed for the ultimate balance between power and control. ATHENA RSM has the exceptional capability to make powerful topspin with amazing speed and spin.

ATHENA RSM is a gold standard of all Kiso Hinoki penholder blades.

Cold Blooded Destroyer with Decisive Power. No-retreat continuous topspin to rule the game.

• 7.3mm Thickness Power Construction Hinoki Carbon
• Elasticity vs Weight Enhanced by 3%+ from Competitors
• Pro-Preferred Sharper Touch Feel tha Competitors
  

Accelerated speed from very thick construction with superb feel Kiso Hinoki and energy efficient ENERGY CARBON. You can feel the destructive power even from far distance topspin attack. Counter topspin attack in continuous rally tops your opponent. ENERGY CARBON Innovated from old X-Carbon delivers the soft and clear feel at impact to help your control in continuous topspins. Attacking ball heavily weighted by amazing speed and super spin is extremely destructive. Combined with the soft European OMEGAs or ZETA, AXELO exceeds any competing peers in the offensiveness.

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.

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.

Kiso Hinoki 5 Ply to win in high speed rally. Incredible feel and momental control.

The birth of JAZZ landmarks a new standard of blade construction. Premium quality Kiso Hinoki out layer offers superb feel and speed at touch with a ball. Center layer of special thickness in balance with Kiso Hinoki layer is harmonized by unique middle layer of hard African wood. Compact head size promotes this unique construction to create more focused feel. Stability in the control of ball direction is simply surprising. Diversified characters are living inside of this unique JAZZ. Ball follows the blade as much as you intended at your topspin. The feel is elegant and very clear. On the other hand, JAZZ repulses the ball amazingly fast in smash, which was not common in 5 ply construction.

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.

New Generation Swedish 5 Ply powered by Kiso Hinoki. Synergy Creation of Europe and Asia.

• European classic allround construction
• Slightly stiffer and sharper than competitors
• Control Oriented but more repulsive at high speed stroke
  

Making the ball hit the spot as you want" is the key character of traditional European 5 ply blades equipped with a great control function. MAGELLAN is close to this ideal type of European classic but quite distinctive in overall offensive performance. Outer Kiso Hinoki layer from Japan created the high synergy with SCANWOOD technology of Sweden. Reduced energy loss and efficient power transfer inside construction made this light weighted MAGELLAN a lethal weapon. Sniper type of precision attack and Hinoki-powered hyper spin attack will add the amazing offensive capability to your game.

Legendary Kiso Hinoki Reborn Under Swedish Technology!

New Standard Of New Era

Players have loved Swedish plywood for a long time. Superb feel and amazing control of Swedish blades were created under the unique tradition of Swedish wood plying technology. As In recent years the most of wood processing industry has moved to other countries, Sweden still keeps the legacy of high technology in sophisticated wood processing. To advance in new era, NOVUS SWEDISH series found the Swedish technology again and upgraded to the new level. XIOM incorporated the legendary Kiso Hinoki of Japan to Swedish technology to create SCANWOOD plywoods for NOVUS SWEDISH series. Full bodied feel, excellent stability, and perfect control at different speed. Innovative creation of new NOVUS SWEDISH will set a new standard for the players is a great weapon to win beyond 2008.

SCANWOOD + KISO HINOKI

Legendary Hinoki Plied In Sweden

Swedish SCANWOOD is thinner and lighter, but has the higher density to deliver the delicate feel/vibration more sensibly. Kiso Hinoki of Japan origin is the core part of SCANWOOD to provide more advanced performances. Combined with Swedish technology, legendary Kiso Hinoki not only enhances the feel but offers the new level of speed characters to SCANWOOD. Construction aims at the new harmony required by the players challenging the new era without speed glue.

Scanwood Vs Other Production

Unique performance of Scanwood

Performance of SCANWOOD is simply unmatchable to that of any productions in the other region. Table Tennis plywoods should be produced in careful consideration of layer, weight, density and stiffness of each veneer. Since the wood is a natural material, professional expertise and experience are required for each process. Unique SCANWOOD production makes a whole difference in blade performance compared with other popular productios as below.

Fast Attacking 5 Ply with Hyper Spin Capacity. Ninja of sharp offense and deadly kill.

• Plies: 5
• Weight: 80 ~ 90gm
• Thickness: 5.6mm
  

Close-to-table fast attackers take advantage of speed and timing. This modern offensive style has been the part of legacy among Chinese top players. 5.6mm+/- thin but hard surfaced FUGA flexes well while giving very sold feel. FUGA also has quite sharp and clear feel as the unnecessary noises/vibration was minimized in construction. Hyper class spin is the very distinctive advantage. Together with the fast attack capacity FUGA will become a lethal weapon for the Chinese player. Asian version of TENSOR BIOS rubbers like OMEGA II and ZETA provides a perfect harmony with FUGA.

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.