Weight
85g
Thickness
9mm
Plies
1-ply
Head Size
165x132
Handles
FL
Material
AllWood
Head Shape
Custom
Balance
Balanced
Musashi Delux
Yasaka Musashi Delux delivers a classic Japanese penhold experience through its single-ply Hinoki wood construction. This blade offers a lively, crisp feel with a natural flex that provides excellent feedback for precise placement and dynamic power. It strikes a compelling balance between speed and control, making it highly accessible for beginners and intermediates while remaining effective for offensive drive attacks and delicate touch shots. The focus on traditional craftsmanship and high-quality materials results in exceptional value and performance.
Features a traditional single-ply construction made entirely from Hinoki wood. This approach focuses on the natural characteristics of the wood to provide lively feel, good speed, and excellent control through direct energy transfer.
TT Sensei Ratings
✦Our expert analysis of this blade's performance characteristics
Musashi Delux offers a fast playing experience with crisp feel and dynamic power. The single-ply Hinoki construction provides excellent energy transfer, allowing for powerful drive attacks and smashes from mid-distance while maintaining good touch.
Despite its speed, this blade excels in control with precise placement for touch shots, blocks, and serve returns. The natural feel of Hinoki wood provides excellent feedback and sensitivity, allowing players to execute delicate strokes with confidence.
The single-ply Hinoki wood provides a soft to medium-soft feel with excellent sensitivity and feedback. This allows for precise touch on pushes and short game play while maintaining enough firmness for powerful attacks.
The combination of fast blade characteristics with soft feel and good dwell time suggests a medium-high throw angle, which helps generate spin on loops and drives while maintaining good control over trajectory.
The soft feel and natural wood characteristics suggest medium to long dwell time, allowing players to impart spin and control the ball effectively during strokes while maintaining good ball contact.
The single-ply Hinoki construction offers moderate flexibility that aids in spin generation during looping strokes while remaining stiff enough for powerful drives. This balance provides good touch without sacrificing power.
Despite its speed and thickness, users report minimal vibrations that contribute to a solid feel and better control. This reduced vibration allows for more consistent play and cleaner stroke execution.
Players report excellent quality considering its price point, with high-quality Hinoki wood featuring straight, tight grains and solid construction. The craftsmanship rivals more expensive blades, offering durability and consistent performance.
Technology
Yasaka Musashi Delux embodies traditional table tennis blade design through single-ply Hinoki wood construction. Hinoki, a Japanese cypress, is prized for its unique combination of lightness, strength, and resonant properties. This single-layer approach allows the wood's natural characteristics to dictate performance, offering lively feel and direct power. The manufacturing emphasizes careful selection and preparation of Hinoki wood to ensure consistent grain structure and optimal playing characteristics, resulting in a blade that delivers classic Japanese penhold experience with both power and control.
Similar Blades
Yasaka Musashi V
Yasaka Musashi V shares nearly identical characteristics as another single-ply Hinoki Japanese penhold blade. It offers similar speed, control, and feel derived from Hinoki construction, often with JTTA approval and Japanese manufacturing for consistent quality.
Yasaka Musashi Silver
Yasaka Musashi Silver provides a similar single-ply Hinoki Japanese penhold experience but with a slightly harder touch compared to the Delux. It maintains classic dimensions and construction for fast, controllable play with subtle feel differences.